Born in Roselle Park, New Jersey, realist and expressionist painter Gregory Gillespie had a strict Catholic Church upbringing, which influences his painting and mix-media sculpture that frequently... Read full biography
Born in Roselle Park, New Jersey, realist and expressionist painter Gregory Gillespie had a strict Catholic Church upbringing, which influences his painting and mix-media sculpture that frequently has religious imagery. He was one of the artists who "came of age" in the 1970s and felt much pressure... Read full biography
Born in Roselle Park, New Jersey, realist and expressionist painter Gregory Gillespie had a strict Catholic Church upbringing, which influences his painting and mix-media sculpture that frequently has religious imagery. He was one of the artists who "came of age" in the 1970s and felt much pressure by the Abstract Expressionists to "paint from the gut" but emerged with a personal style based on Realism influenced by Abstract Expressionism. He is especially known for his self portraits, and in... Read full biography
Born in Roselle Park, New Jersey, realist and expressionist painter Gregory Gillespie had a strict Catholic Church upbringing, which influences his painting and mix-media sculpture that frequently has religious imagery. He was one of the artists who "came of age" in the 1970s and felt much pressure by the Abstract Expressionists to "paint from the gut" but emerged with a personal style based on Realism influenced by Abstract Expressionism. He is especially known for his self portraits, and in these paintings often probes social and psychological issues of gender and identity. Gillespie studied art in New York City at Cooper Union where he was much influenced by books of 14th and 15th century Italian painting and also by Max Beckmann. He... Read full biography
Born in Roselle Park, New Jersey, realist and expressionist painter Gregory Gillespie had a strict Catholic Church upbringing, which influences his painting and mix-media sculpture that frequently has religious imagery. He was one of the artists who "came of age" in the 1970s and felt much pressure by the Abstract Expressionists to "paint from the gut" but emerged with a personal style based on Realism influenced by Abstract Expressionism. He is especially known for his self portraits, and in these paintings often probes social and psychological issues of gender and identity. Gillespie studied art in New York City at Cooper Union where he was much influenced by books of 14th and 15th century Italian painting and also by Max Beckmann. He earned an M.F.A. degree at the San Francisco Art Institute and studied in Italy for eight years where he immersed... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (37)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Siedell, Daniel A.
9 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
A Unique American Vision: Paintings by Gregory Gillespie
1999
Keyes, Donald
0 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf
103 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art
1991
Rosenblum, Robert (intro)
174 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings
1986
Rose Art Museum
147 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
95 pages
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
A Heritage Renewed Representational Drawing Today (Exhibition catalog)