Chris Gregson is an abstract painter who intuitively completes each work, painting without a map and guided by sensation. His imagery is born in this uncharted space, where perception and reflection drift. While journeying down these paths, he makes work that is indebted to its location: a familiar studio in Virginia, a garden-facing studio in Paris, and a small apartment in Brooklyn. Nature is another constant influence, one he describes as "my first and last companion."
To create each painting, he employs layers of marks-influenced by the elegant cursive letters featured on Parisian shop signs-and gestures that build to form aesthetic fields of color. He writes: "In these gestures, I found freedom from the strict geometries that once held my hand, stepping instead into a process of gestural movement from which the images emerge."
The title, which translates to "A New Order of the Ages," pays homage to his high school Latin studies and is a reference to our current moment and the influences in his latest work, namely the "blood red, sky blue, rapeseed fields of spring, the rainbow carnival of clown parades, and the silencing of prairie breezes."
Gregson studied at the former New York Studio and Forum of Stage Design. He began exhibiting his abstract paintings in the 1990s. His art can be found in private, corporate, and public collections, including Markel Corporation and the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia. Since 2022, he has made work about his life in Paris, made possible by residencies at the Cite Internationale des Art that year and in 2023 and 2025. He is based in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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