Gregory Goyo
Greg Goyo a NYC-based self-taught painter. Goyo grew up in a traditional 17th century home in MA. There, Goyo tended the family plot which included rhubarb, quince, black berries, blueberries, wine grapes and red currants. Sixty-five years later, the stains and colors on Goyo’s hands are repeated as he explores and distorts the imagery of master paintings to create a new artistic language.
Greg Goyo a NYC-based self-taught painter. He grew up in a traditional 17th century home in MA. There, Goyo tended the family plot which included rhubarb, quince, black berries, blueberries, wine grapes and red currants. Sixty-five years later, the stains and colors on Goyo’s hands are repeated as he explores and distorts the imagery of master paintings to create a new artistic language.
Goyo’s works are a collection of fragments, some from art history and portraits of nobility in his expression. Using watercolors and ink he distorts the imagery of master works, ripping away the veneer and reconstructung images. This serves as a model to record a collection of memories and ideologies brought to attention through a critical eye.
“I have been a vagabond, international volunteer, ‘expert’, rebel and refugee. I struggled against prejudice, inequality and strife in my own country. I witnessed torture, suffering and death on foreign soils. I saw dear friends’ own hands cut off before execution and I was spared for my cowering silence. Years later, during the AIDS crisis, I received a death sentence. Yet I survived.”
Goyo has an BA in film and a JD from Harvard Law School. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile, where he was befriended by the indigenous artist, Santos Chavez and came to know the writer Jorge Luis Borges. He also witnessed the bloody Pinochet coup d’état and the murder and exile of poet Victor Jarra among others. His works have been shown at Isadore and Dunn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY., Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY., Albaracin Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Zelda Private Galleries, NY., Haven Arts, NY., Diversia-Exhibizone, Ontario, Canada, Richart Gallery, NY., The Harlem Arts Council, NY.
