This website features the art, writing, and ideas of artist and art professor Gregory Scheckler.
Today’s visual arts include diverse, colorful worlds full of intrigues, visual poetries, and visual truths.
Although trained as a realist painter, Gregory Scheckler’s creativity embraces diverse formats from academic realism to cartoony art-brut, nature photography, photojournalism, abstraction, mail art, writing, and mixed media experiments. He is most well-known for his lively, realistic paintings of birds.
Prof. Scheckler telemark skiing the Thunderbolt Trail, Mt. Greylock, MA.
Exhibits include Ferrin Gallery, Kolok Gallery, Gallery 51, Metro One Gallery, Sivertson Gallery, and Greylock Arts, as well as at museums such as the Southern Vermont Art Center, Washburn Historical and Cultural Museum, Duluth Art Institute, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, One West Art Center, Center for the Visual Arts Gallery at Illinois State University, and Boyden Gallery at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Publications include the North Adams Transcript, Berkshire Eagle, BerkshireFineArts.com, The Berkshire Review: an International Journal of the Arts, online Butterflies and Moths of North America, the North County Perp, The Mind’s Eye Liberal Arts Journal, and Thought & Action the journal of the National Education Association. Online editions of CBS News, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Press Enterprise have published his photos via the Associated Press. Gregory Scheckler’s artworks are owned in private and public collections internationally, as nearby as New York City and as far away as Tokyo, Japan.
He teaches painting, drawing, photography and composition as Professor of Art at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, which is a member of the Massachusetts State University System.
Here is the text of an excellent recent interview/review “Gregory Scheckler Smashes It Up” by author John Seven
And two recent reviews by noted art historian Keith Shaw, and newspaper editor Kate Abbott.
Email: Studio.GregoryATgmail.com
Networks: find Prof. Scheckler on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
