Gregory Edwards Studio

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The artist, raised in Houston, Texas, came to California to attend Cal Arts and Art Institute of San Francisco. As a student activist, he distinguished himself as teacher of the Black Artist's Seminar, at California Institute of the Arts in 1972. Early in Mr. Edwards career, Esther Bear, the legendary, Montecito, California art dealer, exhibited his work. The same year (1971), Edwards won 1st Prize in Graphics at The Watts Festival Fine Art Exhibition. Since that time, his paintings, lithographs and drawings have been exhibited nationally in the U.S., from the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, to the Daniel Broder Gallery in New York City's Soho. Mr. Edwards was born into an artistic family. He is the younger brother of New York sculptor, Melvin Edwards, who exposed him, as a teenager, to the work of important artists of the day, including, Marvin Harden, John Altoon, Jean Tinguely, Charlie White, Elizabeth Catlett, David Smith, Richard Hunt, Mark di Suvero, Danny Johnson, Sam Gilliam, William T. Williams and Judy Chicago. The second-wave Gutai painter, Matsumi Kanemitsu, and Emerson Woelffer, a New York School abstract expressionist - both teachers at Cal Arts, mentored Mr. Edwards. He pioneered Performance Art in the revolutionary "Bodacious Buggerilla" (a Los Angeles based guerrilla theatre troupe, active in the 1960's street theatre scene). He digested the ideas of the Light and Space movement, through his friendship and collaboration with, Larry Bell. ...

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