GREG LAMARCHE
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BIOGRAPHY / CV
Born Queens, New York, 1969
Lives and works in New York, NY
New York City, letters, graffiti and text all serve as sources of inspiration for Greg Lamarche. His collages incorporate found materials and a variety of commercially printed papers. The work plays with a profusion of font styles, word fragments and multiple layers and employs characteristics from graffiti such as repetition, bold colors, multiple perspectives and movement.Born and raised in New York, Greg Lamarche has been making collages since the sixth grade when he used fire works wrappers gathered from the schoolyard as material. He began writing graffiti in 1981 and published Skills magazine during the early 90s. He has worked both as a designer and artist since 2000.
His work has been featured in numerous magazines including, New York Times Magazine, Print Magazine, Juxtapoz Modern Painters and Arkitip, among others. His artwork has also been published in several new books including, Graffiti New York, Ornamental Type and Piecebook Reloaded for which he created the cover graphics.
EDUCATION
Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH, BA, 1991SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
One Shot, Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA2010
Cut to The Chase, Show &Tell Gallery, Toronto, ON2008
Things I Picked up Along the Way, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA2007
Corrugated Cuts and Collages, Reed Space, New York, NY2005
Second Nature, Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2003
Simple Pleasures, Mccaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NYTWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011
Geometric Balance, Show and Tell Gallery, Toronto, Canada2010
Materialism, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA2007
Common Denominator, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA2006
Small Worlds, Mccaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NYSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Timeless, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
Marvelous Expeditions, Dabs Myla and friends, Thinkspace, Culvert City, CA
Australia’s Kingbrown Magazine launch and exhibition, Klughaus Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Summer Group Exhibition, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
Assorted Flavor, Known Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fragments 1915-2011: Modern and Contemporary Collage, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Blah..Blah..Blah.., Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Special Characters, Compound Gallery, Portland, OR
Cutters, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland2010
Down by Law, Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Group Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Letterheads, 1000 £ Bend, Melbourne Australia
Get it Together Again, Chicago Tourism Center, Chicago, IL
The Alphabet Show, Steinsland Berliner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden2009
New York Then and Now, ACA Gallery, New York, NY
Get Over It, Show & Tell Gallery, Toronto, ON
The New Yorkers, V-1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark2008
The Piece Process, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY
Graffiti: Spirit of an Age, Longwood Art Gallery, Hostos College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY
Contain, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY
All Together Now, Pine Gallery, Ship Bottom, NJ
Combines, BLVD Gallery, Seattle, WA2007
Homegrown, David Krut Projects, New York, NY
Cascading Mountains of Debris, OKOK Gallery, Seattle, WA,2006
Spothunters, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA2005
Other Possibilities, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Dreamland Artist Club 2005, Creative Time/ Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY2004
Word, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY The Dreamland Artist Club, Creative Time / Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY2003
Clash of the Titans, Mccaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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