Greg Kessler

Who is Greg Kessler?

Greg Kessler is an American artist.

Kessler started painting in New York in 1990 after graduating from Yale with an MFA. His early work depicted androgynous urban characters influenced by Camille Paglia's book Sexual Personae, and was displayed at the George Billis Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, and the Cy Katzen Gallery in Washington DC.

In 2002, Kessler was an artist in residence at Hotel Pupik in Austria. He followed that with solo shows at the Glorious Food loft in New York and the Adair Margo Gallery in Texas.

His recent work recalls late Picasso, early Jackson Pollock and de Kooning. Kessler pulls images out of the process of painting and combines drawing, collage and color field painting in combination of abstract and figurative styles. Kessler's work was most recently displayed at the LeRoy Neiman Center at Columbia University.

In 2009, Kessler had a one person show at Westbeth Gallery in NYC. The same year, Kessler also curated a show at Gallery Korea in New York, titled Contemporary Mythology. Kessler continued with New York shows in 2010. In 2011 He curated works of 13 artists for his group show, called Urban Mythos. He had a solo show in Palm Beach in January 2012.