G R E G P O N D

New Dialect worked with Greg on an multimedia project called guncotton.

The following are images of Greg’s studio, along with quotes from the artist, as seen in an article on locatearts.org.

GREG: I am interested in cultural attitudes towards landscape and the pursuit of utopia (no place). It is the landscape that largely influences our collective mythology and cultures. I compress histories and cultures, alter the pace of time, and distort physical scale to portray a psychological rather than a social or material realism.

To be able to see beyond predetermined standards to reach conclusions drawn from the diversity of experience is the gift of creative thought. I convey my ideas through unexpected combinations of images and media and seek to engage the viewer in ways that are physical and phenomenological. I impose specific formal and/or temporal compositions that are intended to offset usual associations with the subject matter.

My art practice involves sculpture, sound installation and performance, video, documentary, electronics, and programming. I am Professor of Art at the University of the South and a founding member of the independent arts organization Fugitive Projects. I have served as a board member of the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance and on the board of Number Inc., a non-profit arts magazine.