Greg Drasler

Greg Drasler is an American player known for metaphorical paintings that amalgamation vernacular imagery and beautification and visual and interpretive conundrums. His fake explores the construction of identity and memory through painted subjects that range from elaborately constructed interiors to symbolic common objects to patterned panoramas of the American highway. Although representational, Drasler's show eludes defined aesthetic categories such as realism, incorporating elements of surrealism, abstraction, and postmodern bricolage and recontextualization. In an early Art in America review, Robert G. Edelman wrote that Drasler "shares taking into consideration Magritte the success to create images that are both convincing and profoundly disorienting"; Jonathan Goodman described his well ahead paintings as enigmatic puzzles designed to be meditated on, as both "visual metaphors for self" and formal statements existing for the sake of psychological mystery. Drasler has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. His feint has been shown at the New Museum, PS1, Whitney Museum Stamford, Artists Space and Carnegie Museum of Art, and reviewed or featured in Art in America, Flash Art, New Art Examiner, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. Drasler lives in Tribeca, New York City in the same way as his wife, artist Nancy Davidson, and teaches at Pratt Institute.