Interview with Gregory Malphurs: Rethinking Portraiture

“My get the job done is a deconstruction recipe of emotions, colors, tales, and inspirations reflecting existence with its troubles and complications…”

By Increase Artwork | 07 Nov 2022

Gregory Malphurs has not too long ago joined Increase Art, bringing his conceptual portraits to the system. Gregory’s get the job done delivers the viewer a appear inside of his subject’s psyche fairly than a literal depiction of the physical. His do the job pushes the boundaries of conventional portrait painting by utilizing concepts of collage with multiple mediums to generate richly complicated within-out portraits.

Pastel Study 10 (Alex), 2022, delicate pastels on velour paper, 48.3 x 35.6cm

 

How would you explain your fashion and the get the job done you build?

My operate focuses on rethinking portraiture by restructuring the way a subject is represented. Building a painting or drawing that is an precise visual likeness to its issue does