contain subtle references to graffiti iconography and the street. ... Graffiti New
York, Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage and The History of American Graffiti.
GREG LAMARCHE Born in Queens Lives and Works in New York City
Greg Lamarche borrows from the modernist practice of incorporating found materials into works of art but brings a fresh, new perspective. Collages containing numerous custom letters are cut from scavenged papers to spell out multiple versions of SP.ONE. Other collages combine a variety of commercially printed materials to form new meanings and associations. They also contain subtle references to graffiti iconography and the street. The collages challenge and move beyond conventional stereotypes about graffiti by embracing a new medium and technique. The works play with a profusion of font styles, word fragments and multiple layers to simulate the energy, movement and immediacy of contemporary life. This energy is also evident in the wall painting through its imposing scale, color composition and overlapping of letter-forms. All of the artworks play explores the ever changing and interactive dialogue between street, fine, and commercial arts. In 1981 he began writing graffiti on the streets and subways, and published Skills, a graffiti magazine, in the1990s. His artwork has been reviewed in the New York Times, Modern Painters, Print, Arkitip and Juxtapoz among others. His work is also published in several books, including Graffiti New York, Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage and The History of American Graffiti.
EDUCATION 1991
BA, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013
All of the Above: works by Greg Lamarche, Graffiti Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2012
Timeless, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
2011
One Shot, Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA
2010
Cut to The Chase, Show & Tell Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008
Things I Picked up Along the Way, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2007
Corrugated Cuts and Collages, Reed Space, New York, NY
2005
Second Nature, Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Simple Pleasures, McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2011
Geometric Balance, Show and Tell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010
Materialism, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Common Denominator, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
Small Worlds, McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013
Direct Address: An Inaugural Group Exhibition, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY International Graffiti Writing Exhibition, Venice, Italy Write & Repeat Group Show, Stolen Place Gallery, London, England
2012
Fresh Kills, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2011
Summer Group Exhibition, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY Assorted Flavor, Known Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Fragments 1915-2011: Modern and Contemporary Collage, ACA Galleries, New York, NY Blah..Blah..Blah.., Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ Special Characters, Compound Gallery, Portland, OR Cutters, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
2010
Re: Form School, Redu Projects/233 Mott Street, New York, NY Down by Law, Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY Letterheads, 1000 £ Bend, Melbourne, Australia The Alphabet Show, Steinsland Berliner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Draw, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico
2009
New York Then and Now, ACA Galleries, New York, NY Get Over It, Show & Tell Gallery, Toronto, Canada The New Yorkers, V-1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008
The Piece Process, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY Spirit of an Age, Longwood Gallery, Bronx, NY Contain, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY All Together Now, Pine Gallery, Ship Bottom, NJ Combines, BLVD Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007
Homegrown, David Krut Projects, New York, NY Cascading Mountains of Debris, OKOK Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006
Spothunters, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA
2005
Other Possibilities, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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The Dreamland Artist Club 2005, Creative Time / Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY 2004
Word, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY The Dreamland Artist Club, Creative Time / Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY
2003
100 Artists Make 100 T-shirts, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY Clash of the Titans, Mccaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Fear No Art, Kingdom Fine Art, Boston, MA
2001
Many Colored Artworks, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
1999
Graffiti, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
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