Paintings and Photographs
BabyGirl
By Gary Grissom

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I was a member of the first graduating class of the art department in 1973. After College I went on to study art and art history at Philadelphia College of Art
(now named University of the Arts) and the University of Pennsylvania. My work was non-representational, as were most of my fellow students. To my surprise I’ve evolved from color field paintings to representational art.

I’m a very slow painter. Three years ago I decided to make small sized paintings which allow me to complete more works. Previously, I would paint canvases that were between four and six feet. Each
undertaking became a massive struggle lasting many months.

Working with the scale of the paintings exhibited has resulted in the completion of more work which allows me to freely move between fugitive, still life and landscape paintings. Landscapes are a
recent interest. Currently I’m looking at the work of George Inness (1825-1894), American landscape painter.

I have never been disciplined to work in one media or explore one theme. The result is that I have a incoherent body of work.

During the mid-eighties I started to
exhibit photography. First I made
handcolored black and white silver
prints. Now I have two different
photographic processes which I exhibit separately. One body of work is composed of photographic images that are altered on the computer using Photoshop and printed on parchment. Last year I started to exhibit color photography that are output as archival digital prints.

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