Greg Gossel…..a different type of smash up

Imagine there’s this sad soul whose never seen Greg Gossel’s work. Let me paint that person a picture. The Minneapolis based artist combines expressive interplay of words, images and gesture through a combination of mediums including silkscreen, transfers and found objects. Consider it visual intertextuality.

With every piece is not only adding to the dialogue of contemporary art, he’s commenting on it, by the images he uses or doesn’t use.Greg is deep in the midst of preparing for his upcoming solo exhibition “Numb” at 941 Geary in San Francisco which is set to open this Summer. He’ll be debuting roughly 30 new original works on canvas and wood include a portrait-based series, and a new series of more abstract collage-based works. In addition he’ll be showing a series of large-scale works on canvas, his largest to date.

“This new work is based heavily in cultural ephemera,” Greg tells me. “found billboard scraps, old tabloids, pulp novels, and superhero comics are all built up and mashed together creating a really rich textured working surface. I’m also incorporating a wide variety of other mediums into the work such as screenprinting, acrylic, enamel, bleach, stains, sanding, etc.”