Greg Slick

My paintings investigate ideas of monumentality and legacy through the material memory associated with archaeological sites, quarries, and eroded landscapes. Where the built environment meets the natural world is central to my practice. Through references to illustration and photodocumentation used in archaeological publications, my work examines how lithic, manufactured, and biological shapes can occupy a pictorial space that often feels destabilized and unreal. In the case of Chance Reveal (2026), an imagined archaeological event depicts a cleared rural site and the accidental discovery of a fragment of an ancient Greek votive figure. Stones and branches float inexplicably evoking a destabilized and mysterious landscape, while the fragment—only lips, chin, and part of a nose—seems displaced at its own excavation site, but laden with secrets. It is a piece of material memory that inhabits both a historical past and an archaeological present. Ultimately, my work invites us to consider the meaning and politics of our self-image within the world, of how we perceive the past, and of nature versus culture.