About the Artist
Prof. Scheckler meadow-skips Berkshires' powder.
Gregory Scheckler grew up exploring the fields and woods of Wisconsin, son of a professor of medicine and a professional musician. He earned degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Washington University in St. Louis, and Utah State University, and studied drawing at the New York Academy of Art, and oil painting at the Angel Art Academy in Florence, Italy.
Although trained as a realist painter, Scheckler’s creativity embraces diverse formats from academic realism to cartoony art-brut, nature photography, abstraction, and many other experiments. His artwork has been shown professionally since 1990, at institutions such as the Glendinning Gallery, Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the Eccles Art Center (Utah), One West Art Center (Colorado), the Washburn Cultural and Historical Museum and Metro One Gallery (Wisconsin), the Southern Vermont Art Center and the Bennington Center for the Arts (Vermont), Kolok Gallery and Gallery 51 (Massachusetts). Artworks have been published online as feature stories with JPG Magazine, Spaceweather.com, and Butterflies and Moths of North America, as well as contributed in print for The North Adams Transcript, Berkshire Eagle, and the liberal arts journal The Mind’s Eye. Scheckler’s articles and essays about art, as well as his poetry have been published locally and internationally in the Bray Arts Journal (Ireland), in Fifty Word Fiction (United Kingdom) and with the Suruga Bai Literary Festival (Numazu, Japan). Scheckler is the author of four books, currently available via Lulu.com: Berkshire Sky Stories: Photographs of Climate Change; Noisy Street: New York City Poems and Images 1990-2002; News You Can Use: a Time-Space Remix; and the newest photo book The Season of Freedoms and Tangles: Quiet Photos from the Forests of the Berkshires. Click here to see the books. Scheckler’s painting Field of Probability appears as the record cover of the single “At the Bottom” by Brand New, for DGC/Interscope Records. Scheckler is currently represented by the Ferrin Gallery, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Scheckler also serves as Associate Professor of Visual Art at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where students and teachers are nestled in the dynamic, world-renowned arts community in North Adams, in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, next to the Clark Art Institute, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Berkshire Museum. Prof. Scheckler teaches art courses that integrate the observation of nature with fine art, specializing in historical and contemporary painting methods, drawing, and digital photography.
When not teaching or making art, Gregory can be found hiking, telemark skiing, or hanging out with his wife the artist Laura Christensen and their two piebald cats, Jupiter and Masaccio.
Examples of Press
Here is the text of a recent interview/article about Gregory Scheckler, science, and art, titled ‘Painting a Rational Picture.’
Contact Information
Email: Studio.GregoryATgmail.com
Networks: find me on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Affiliations
Massachusetts Teachers Association
National Education Association
Leonardo / International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
