gregg hill

Selected Exhibitions

2008 gregg hill: SMASHED, solo exhibition, Serrano Contemporary, Chelsea, NY
2008 gregg hill: SMASHED, solo exhibition, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY
2006 Ridgefield Guild of Artists Annual Exhibition, Ridgefield, CT
2006 What You See is What You Have, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY

Audio Productions

2004 Smell the Huf, Produced by Gregg Hill and Peter Denenberg, Acme, Mamaroneck, NY
2003 Between the Lines, Co-writer with Sloan Wainwright
2001 The Sparrows, with John Bruce, Produced by Peter Denenberg, Acme, Mamaroneck, NY
1999 Monkeys, Co-writer for Lackey on Capitol Records
1998 Milo, with John Bruce, Marengo Records, Nashville, TN

Education

2004... ...Study of Buddhist practice with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
2008 ......SUNY Purchase, NY
1997-98 The University of Chicago
1980-85 Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, B.A.


Raised in the Midwest on powdered milk and Johnny Cash.  Gregg began a career in the cable television industry some twenty years ago and eventually became, among other things, one of the founding members of the Independent Film Channel and IFC Films. He climbed to the top; then did the unthinkable and jumped off. There has always been a deeper calling in Gregg. Primarily he is and always has been an artist, one with a social conscience. I watched Gregg in this process of painful exchange from industry leader to Buddhist disciple. A year ago he gave up NY for a Sangha in Vietnam. This makes me think of Joseph Campbell and his writings of the hero’s journey. I see Gregg this way. He entered the unknown and emerged with new consciousness. This embodiment is the artist now whose work evokes figuratively and symbolically this journey.  This is an art with a message whose beauty and intelligence is expressed in the liquid folds of metal become the corpus of enlightenment. Here is a striving to disappear the roots of belief manifested in materiality.
 
          Jack Leamy, May 2008
          San Francisco, CA