Gregory Blanche


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American by birth, Italian by citizenship, Nordic by vocation, Tuscan by figurative experience, Gregory Blanche is a reserved painter with rare public appearances who, despite his young professional age, achieves a highly expressive quality. He began in his early twenties in an exhibition in Caprese Michelangelo and has often participated in group shows in Florence, where he lives and works. Trained at the San Francisco Art Institute and California College of the Arts, he has received recognition, and even a critics’ prize in Bolgheri in 1996. But these appreciable credentials do not suffice to express the coherence of his pictorial discourse, sustained by a technical skill of high quality.


Gregory expresses himself in a variety of themes, but remains firm in style. At home in the company of established Tuscan artists of the likes of Riccardo Saldarelli, Walter Falconi and especially the magic Sergio Nardoni, Blanche has acquired valuable trade secrets while preserving intact his own inclinations which nevertheless vary from the figure, in his paintings both realistic and theatrical, to landscapes, robust and sober, well-built and poetically both exacting and evocative, and finally to still lives. These are perhaps the highest point in his painting, embellished with radiance (Caravaggesque), and revealing lens-like perfection. They are detached, yet positively enchanting with an intimate Nordic atmosphere echoing in the nuances of light (his reverence to Jan Vermeer).


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Selected Exhibitions


2022


AXA Art Prize Exhibition, November 9-16, New York Academy of Art, NYC


MFA Graduate Fine Arts Open Studios, April 23, American Industrial Center, San Francisco, CA


MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 7 – 16, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA


2021


MFA Fine Arts Virtual Open Studios, online at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA


2020


8%, online at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA


BFA Exhibition, online at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA


2019


Il Melograno, Livorno


In Villa, Rosignano Solvay, Italy


2018


solo exhibition, Floritudine, September 6 – October 8, Sala delle Eroine, Palazzo Comunale, Pontassieve, Italy


2017


Per Claudio Carotenuto, Palazzo del Comune Vecchio, Cecina, Italy


2016


Collezione Carotenuto, Palazzo del Comune Vecchio, Cecina, Italy


Galleria La Saletta, Cecina Mare, Italy


Galleria Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy


solo exhibition, Of Elvis, Van Gogh and Flowers, January 11 – February 26, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy


2012


Gruppo Donatello, Florence, Italy


2010


Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art, Southampton, NY


Galleria Via Larga, Florence, Italy


Chiantidee, Palazzo Consigliare, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Italy


Fuochi di Primavera, Gruppo Donatello, Florence, Italy


2009


solo exhibition, Un pittore americano di Toscana, Gruppo Donatello, Florence, Italy


Immagina Arte in Fiera, quartiere fieristica di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy


Casa di Dante, Florence, Italy


2008


Sambuca, un ponte il suo fiume, giardini pubblici, Sambuca, Italy


2007


Gallerie Amsterdam, Carmel, CA 2006


Kertesz Fine Art, San Francisco, CA


2004


Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA


1997


Ken’s Art Gallery, Florence, Italy


1996


Arte 86, Florence, Italy


1995


Renzo Spagnoli Arte, Florence, Italy


La Stanza delle Maschere, Sala Comunale Topical, Montespertoli, Italy


1993


Formato Ridotto, Galleria Palazzo Vecchio 2, Florence, Italy


Il Vero – Non Vero, June 26 - July 22, Studio Palazzi, Spoleto, Italy


1989


Arte, Scienza e Società, Museo Michelangiolesco, Caprese Michelangelo, Italy


Awards


1996


Critics Award, Concorso di Pittura Estemporanea, Bolgheri, Italy



Related Experience


2021


graduate teaching assistant, Keith Thomas, CCA


graduate teaching assistant, K.C. Rosenberg, CCA


2001 - 2015


studio assistant, Sergio Nardoni


2000


translator/teaching assistant, Silvano Campeggi, SACI


1998


translator/teaching assistant, Roberto Innocenti, SACI


1989 – 1994


studio assistant, Sergio Nardoni


1989 – 1990


studio assistant, Walter Falconi


1989


studio assistant, Riccardo Saldarelli


Education


MFA Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco


BFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco


Studio Arts College International, Florence, Italy





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