Plastic, foam, paper, models and building materials, paints, inks, these seemingly unrelated creative materials, how can they appear in one work at the same time without conflict?
When it comes to landscape painting, most people think of Chinese paintings full of ancient meanings. A large area of ??clearly layered splash-ink landscape always makes people happy to see it! But the Minneapolis-based artist Gregory Euclide uses mixed media to create. It seems to make landscape painting more modern.
Euclide is a school teacher, so occasionally he will use his lunch break to draw with black ink on the whiteboard in the classroom. Although it is quickly erased, it is still interesting.Amazing people.
In addition, he also uses various cross-border materials such as plastic, foam, paper, models and building materials, pigments, and inks to help landscape paintings escape the limitations of the painting frame, such as rocks protruding from the canvas, The ripples in the water floating on the canvas, the trees growing outside the frame, etc., combined with the sky and buildings serving as the background, make Euclides landscape paintings not just "paintings", but more like layered sculptures. It retains the poetic charm of landscape painting itself, but the picture looks richer and three-dimensional.
Some of Euclides works will be exhibited at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco in April. Those who are interested can also go to Behance to appreciate his recent works.
