Greg Dalton

Greg Dalton is a painter, draftsman, and printmaker whose work bridges Romanticism, Symbolist narrative, and natural history. Working primarily in oil on canvas and mixed media works on paper, he builds large-format compositions through layered staining, glazing, and atmospheric modeling. Fossil forms, relic landscapes, sacred figures, and eroded architectures appear not as fantasies, but as unearthed memory—fragments of worlds absorbed by time.

Dalton studied painting, drawing, and printmaking in California under traditional instructors connected to classical draftsmanship and intaglio technique. His visual language draws from artists such as Böcklin, Klinger, Friedrich, Doré, and the color philosophies of Goethe and Humboldt. Rather than referencing them as style, he extends their lineage—treating landscape and the human form as metaphysical terrain shaped by memory and erosion.

He has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Istanbul, Santa Fe, and the Bay Area, and spent much of his career working privately while developing a singular body of work. His paintings and drawings are not produced for volume but built over time—each piece operating as part of a larger cosmology rather than a series of isolated images.

Dalton’s work exi...

California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC)
BFA Program – Painting and Printmaking
Studied under Jack Ford, Jack Mendenhall, Vince Perez, and Linda Burns
San Francisco & Oakland, CA

Art Center College of Design
Figure Drawing
Pasadena, CA

Cal Poly Pomona
Landscape Architecture Program
Pomona, CA

2009 – LACE Benefit Art Auction
Los Angeles County Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2005 – The Zine Unbound: Werewolf Express
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Publication Feature – "MYTH/THYM"
Picturebox Books, curated by Trinie Dalton

Publication Feature – "The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive"