332 east 95th Street, apt.22 new york, ny 10128 tel: 646-262-6732 greg@cyberloft.us
Greg “Grisha” Skwentna’s visual language derives its lexicon from relationships with space, color, texture, nature, and emotional and intellectual moods of the mind typically reserved for words—narratives in print. Because his concepts expand beyond a solitary idea it is not unusual to find his work in diptych or triptych form. Greg’s most recent work is complex, deeply psychological minimalist still life with slightly alive, slightly immobile, barely nourishing biomorphic shapes in disturbingly even settings. A gland or a loaf of bread? A heart or simple sphere? Breathing or inanimate? Like life, these figures are at once stagnant, but with great potential for movement. In total stillness yet motion is implied in the objects’ roundness—their ability to move should forces allow them to do so. The images are powerful visual representations of the stillness that lies in the moment before the moment life tragically or at least dramatically changes. As with a koan, meditation on these canvases produces fewer answers, only greater questions
