Art by Greg Edmondson is featured in The New Territory Magazine’s Pageturner Fundraiser on October 21, 2023.
Buy tickets here to participate in the live and silent auctions.
Featured artwork in our live art auction:
“Laying Old Ghosts to Rest”
30″ x 22″, gouache on black Arches, and from the first 12 paintings in DARK MATTER.
Both are in museum quality frames. Framed size is 33 1/2″ x 25 1/2″.
This painting comes with a poem, hand written in silver ink on black card stock, inspired by and written after them by physicist and poet and physicist Agnes Vojta.
Starting bid at The Pageturner Fundraiser: $2,400
Early Dark Matter pieces
Two of his Greg’s early DARK MATTER pieces, minimum bid $500 each.
To bid at The Pageturner Fundraiser: Starting bid on two, for $1,000.
- “Bending the Truth,” 11″x8.5″, gouache on graph paper, 2020
- “Y Knot,” 11″x8.5″, gouache on graph paper, 2020
- “The Whirlpool Charybdis,” 11″x8.5″, gouache on graph paper, 2020
- “The Sea Monster Scylla,” 11″x8.5″, gouache on graph paper, 2020
About Greg Edmondson
“…It was the four years spent at a remote artists residency on the banks of the Gasconade River that offered me an authentic connection to Missouri as my ‘Place.'”
I was raised in Oak Ridge Tennessee, the “Secret City” of the Manhattan Project built in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. The Midwest was a foreign land when I first moved to St. Louis in 1983 to begin Grad School at Washington University. After graduation I received two fellowships to Europe and spent the next five years in Germany. In 1993, I returned to St. Louis, this time for good. Although my practice has now been based here for over a quarter century, it was the four years spent at a remote artists residency on the banks of the Gasconade River that offered me an authentic connection to Missouri as my “Place.” My childhood had been spent playing in woods, in creeks and on rivers. Missouri is a topography of wilderness and water, and the rhythms of its rivers are the heartbeat of its landscape. While my heart is in Missouri, my art is on the walls of Elton John, Halle Berry, and the Berkshire Museum.
See Greg’s work in print throughout the literature section in The New Territory Issue 14.
Personal hopes for art in the Midwest:
My primary hope for the Arts in our region requires a shift in perception. I hope we can drop the perception that Art and Culture must be imported to the Midwest from New York or LA, and begin to legitimize the Art and Artists being generated and incubated here. One reason we are so often thought of as cultural followers is that we indeed are often more willing to follow than lead… There is great work being made here. Unfeigned ideas are being explored all over the region, too often with insignificant opportunities to be presented, viewed, seen or heard.
“My primary hope for the Arts in our region requires a shift in perception.”
Greg Edmondson’s artwork:
My work is still informed by a lifelong interest in the natural world… its patterns of organic growth and decay, its systems of intricate interdependence… As an undergrad I studied painting, in grad school I studied sculpture and printmaking. Over my four decades plus as a working artist, my practice has ranged widely in scope, scale, material and subject matter. But I seem to always circle back to formal abstraction. When confronting the purely abstract, you are never dealing with a singular “What”, but always and only with an endless “What if.”
See Greg’s art in print in the literature section of The New Territory Issue 14.