Gregory Blanche

American by birth, Italian by citizenship, Nordic by vocation, Tuscan by figurative experience, Gregory Blanche is a reserved painter with rare public appearances who, despite his young professional age, achieves a highly expressive quality. He began in his early twenties in an exhibition in Caprese Michelangelo and has often participated in group shows in Florence, where he lives and works. Trained at the San Francisco Art Institute and California College of the Arts, he has received recognition, and even a critics’ prize in Bolgheri in 1996. But these appreciable credentials do not suffice to express the coherence of his pictorial discourse, sustained by a technical skill of high quality.

Gregory expresses himself in a variety of themes, but remains firm in style. At home in the company of established Tuscan artists of the likes of Riccardo Saldarelli, Walter Falconi and especially the magic Sergio Nardoni, Blanche has acquired valuable trade secrets while preserving intact his own inclinations which nevertheless vary from the figure, in his paintings both realistic and theatrical, to landscapes, robust and sober, well-built and poetically both exacting and evocative, and finally to still lives. These are perhaps the highest poi...

MFA Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA

BFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy

Selected Exhibitions

2022

"AXA Art Prize Exhibition", November 9-16, New York Academy of Art, NYC

"MFA Graduate Fine Arts Open Studios", April 23, American Industrial Center, San Francisco, CA

"MFA Thesis Exhibition", April 7 – 16, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA

2021

"MFA Fine Arts Virtual Open Studios", online at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2020

"8%", online at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

"BFA Exhibition", online at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2019

Il Melograno, Livorno

In Villa, Rosignano Solvay, Italy

2018

solo exhibition, "Floritudine", September 6 – October 8, Sala delle Eroine, Palazzo Comunale, Pontassieve, Italy

2017

"Per Claudio Carotenuto", Palazzo del Comune Vecchio, Cecina, Italy

2016

"Collezione Carotenuto", Palazzo del Comune Vecchio, Cecina, Italy

Galleria La Saletta, Cecina Mare, Italy

Galleria Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy

solo exhibition, "Of Elvis, Van Gogh and Flowers", January 11 – February 26, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy

2012

Gruppo Donatello, Florence, Italy

2010

Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art, Southampton, NY

Galleria Via Larga, Florence, Italy

"Chiantidee", Palazzo Consigliare, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Italy

"Fuoc...