Drawing

Book Arts

Contact Information

Philadelphia, PA 19106
tel: 510-390-1700
e-mail:
www.gregorgracedesign.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement

Drawing is the heart of who I am: I have always drawn, even when the act of drawing didn’t always show above the surface of my professional life. I draw because I love to, and I draw in order to understand myself and the world around me, and I draw to share what I know and value with others. I am a teacher in my art and in my writing, including my blog about art and art history, as well as when I’m in a classroom teaching art, art history, or children’s literature. My books are an expression of all of the above. I am a practitioner of drawing and words, I love making things, and I love books. I love the interesting world of visual objects, which includes everything from Rembrandt to family pictures to news photos to weird, brightly colored bugs. I am committed to sharing what I know and love with those who care to listen and look. My drawings and my books, which often combine drawing and words, are my personal offering of knowledge and delight in the visual world and what it means for all of us who live in it.

These drawings are done with ink and colored ink on paper. Editions of books are printed with archival processes on archival paper.

Professional Experience

2010 – present
Adjunct professor, Pennoni Honors College, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Children’s Literature

2009 – present
Contributor, Broad Street Review, Philadelphia, PA

Lecture Series, ArtSmartTalk, Berkeley, CA

Chair, Visual Arts, Studio Art and Art History, Independent Secondary Schools Northern California

Children’s Book Writing, Writer/Artist in residence, Charlotte’s Web Children’s Bookstore, San Francisco, CA

Children’s Writing and Illustration, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA

Honors and Awards

2010 Winner Art History Blog of the Year for ArtSmartTalk blog, presented by Online PHD Programs

Published Work

ArtSmartTalk blog

“Personal Journey: America’s spaces flash past train window”
Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA

“Anne Andrée Carron: The Tree of Life” Ceramics Monthly

“The Art in Mysteries” Mystery Readers’ Journal

INDA 4: International Drawing Annual 4, Manifest Press

Commissions

Children’s Book Illustrations

Helen and the Great Quiet, Morrow Junior Books

On Top, William Morrow

Helen the Hungry Bear, Four Winds Press

Noel and His Friends, TBW Books

Baby Takes a Trip, Four Winds Press

Benny Brown Bear’s Circus, Scholastic

Boats That Float, Franklin Watts

The Animals go to the Supermarket, Crane Russak

Little Angel Books, The Angelica Press

Selected Exhibitions

2010
Insect Invitational, B Square Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

The Art of the Flower, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

Works on Paper, Philadelphia Sketch Club,
Philadelphia, PA

2008 – 2009
Crossing the Line, ArtWorks Downtown , San Rafael, CA

Keter Associates, Berkeley, CA

A Community of Art, Alvarado Artists at the Rockridge Library, Oakland, CA

2006 – 2007
Artists/Friends – Dialogues, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Solo Display, Rockridge Library, Oakland, CA

Alvarado Artists, Giorgio Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Strong Ties, Diverse Connections, Downtown Art Center
San Rafael, CA

2004 – 2005
Alvarado Artists Founding Exhibition, Berkeley, CA

Faculty Exhibition, Bentley School, Lafayette, CA

1990 – 2004
Banaker Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Fine Woodworking, Sausalito, CA

Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA

Fairfax Public Library, Fairfax, CA

Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA

New Art Forms, Banaker Gallery at the Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

Faculty Exhibition, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA

Year of the American Craft, Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

Inspired by Nature, California Contemporary Crafts Council,
Corte Madera, CA

Animals and Us, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

In the Landscape, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA

California Design, Baulines Craft Guild, San Francisco, CA

Small Works, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA

Artists from the Erika Meyerovich Gallery, Governor’s Office,
San Francisco, CA

1980 – 1990
Saint John the Divine, New York, NY

Saint Peter’s Church, New York, NY

Saint Edwards School, Oxford, England

The Leys School, Cambridge, England

Other

2008 – 2009
Berkeley Artisans Open Studios, Berkeley, CA

Pro Arts Open Studios, Oakland, CA