Short Bio
I am a self taught Southwest Ohio painter and sculptor influenced by industry, landscape, pollution, contradiction and the vernacular. After college I worked at Armco Steel in Middletown Ohio.
Statement
There is joy and freedom in the art struggle. It's a positive addiction. It manifests as biography or accident. The result is a reality more perfectly seen.Biography
After six years at Armco Steel Gary left to make art. He has won various awards including one for photography. Some recent work is digitally composed or digitally altered. His work is in private and public collections.Resident
In the Great Miami River valley in a factory town his grandfather, father and he worked in a steel mill. Life was shift work nature and the domestic the garage and crochet basement tools gardens engines and doilies stores advertising signs trailers commerce and television and popular music. Now he lives in the Little Miami River valley with thousands of years of Native presence in the landscape. His art is these myriad perceptions collected in these river systems and the unexpected that occurs while working.
Resume / CV
One person show at Springfield Museum of Art (SMOA) 2021Cincinnati Art Academy group shows 2018 & 2019
One person show at The Yellow Springs Brewery Gallery 2018
Group show Yellow Springs Community Foundation 2018
Group show Yellow Springs Arts Council 2018
One person show at Emporium (YS) 2017 & 2018
Group shows at Dayton Visual Arts Center 2016 & 2017
One person show "Art is Vice" Yellow Springs Arts Council 2014
One person show at American Gallery Tucson AZ 2010
Charles Gerhardt Gallery one person show Lebanon OH 2010
