Friday, October 5, 2012

Gregory Botts, Eighties Paintings in US Museums



"...not that distance which marks the percieved world.", 113 x 112",  oil and wax on canvas, 1984

 Honolulu Academy of Fine Art,  Honolulu, Hawaii




Originally shown at Manhattan Art on Greene St, NYC.


Most of the above paintings were painted in California on the West Campus of UCSB. Many were painted out of doors.









Ongoing Text #1, "Being a windy night...the sea, falling soldiers, birds cry out."117 x 117", oil and wax on canvas, 1988

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California





Originally shown at Anne Plumb Gallery, earlier known as Manhattan Art.
Also shown in Santa Barbara at the Contemporary Arts Forum, in 1988.








"... the poem, the icon, the man." acrylic, oil and wax on canvas,  117 x 89", 1988

Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado






Santa Barbara at the Contemporary Arts Forum, in 1988 with Roy Fowler.




Rhode Island School of Design, 1990. Terra Incognito, Contemporary Landscape









( Trees at Devereaux Lagoon with Universe, oil and wax on canvas, 68 x 102, 1984 )

I find this title a mistake,

"I imagine the earth with it's_circle of vapors...," Goethe,
1984, oil and wax on canvas, ' 68 1/4" x 137 1/2"


La Jolla Museum of Art, now San Diego Museum of Art



Shown at Manhattan Art, NYC, 1984.

Gregory Botts, ”...and thickens into clouds and rain.," Goethe, 
1984, oil and wax on canvas, 54" x 141 1/2”  James Jensen, Honolulu, HI

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