Greg Slick is a visual artist, independent curator, and museum educator based in Beacon and Newburgh, NY. Time, history, archaeology, and anthropology play major thematic roles in his work.

Artist Statement: My paintings investigate ideas of monumentality through the geometries of prehistoric and early historic archaeological sites. They also attempt to expand temporal boundaries by linking both deep time human-made forms and mythic narratives with contemporary painting. Through texture, patterns of entoptic phenomena, and references to stratigraphic drawing employed in archaeological documentation, my work examines how lithic and biological shapes can occupy pictorial space in compelling ways within a semi-abstract language. In addition to shape, color plays a major role in creating structure and organizing space within my paintings. Where the built environment meets the natural world in the context of a wonder discourse is also central to my work; thus, I use defined forms to reinterpret tumbles of stones and organic matter at archaeological sites as a composition of texture/color upon a luminous ground, while color schemes allude to changing light in rural areas where these sites are located. Ultimately, the work invites the viewer to read deeply and consider the meaning and politics of our self image within the world, of nature versus culture, and of ancestor veneration along the human journey.