Bio

Gregory Sale is a multidisciplinary artist working conceptually in visual art, performance art, and community-based projects. The form and content of his work reflects a hybrid approach which incorporates the wry sensibility of Pop art, along with the optimism of Yoko Ono, the provocation of the Happenings, and the raw intensity of art in the age of AIDS.

His sound-based performance video, Looking for Yoko Ono debuted at Cité des Ondes, Champ Libre, Montreal; was presented by Lisa Sette Gallery at Photo Miami International Contemporary Fair, 2006; and included in Yoko Ono: Imagine Film at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2007. Love Stories, a series of text-based artworks, was co-presented by Trunk Space and Writers’ Bloc, Phoenix, 2006. Other notable projects and exhibitions include Hair, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale; Tight, POST Gallery, Los Angeles; You Still Draw Like a Girl, Sixth Street Studios, Phoenix; Phoenix is on Fire, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture; Nooks and Crannies, ASU Art Museum, Tempe; and Touching Revolution, Phoenix Art Museum.

His work has been supported by a project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and a Material Funds Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum. Awards include artist residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2007 and at Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY, 2006; and an Award for Innovation, Hometown Video Festival, Monterey, CA, 2005. He has a MFA in Art from University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, and a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in French Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Gregory is currently preparing two temporary projects in the public sphere: Love Buttons for Scottsdale Public Art Program, and Stuck on You for Glendale Arts. Both projects engages their audiences in a collective contemplation of love.

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selected exhibitions, temporary public art, performance and video work

2008		Love Buttons, Sunday A'Fair Jazz Festival, Scottsdale Public Art, Scottsdale, AZ Stuck on You, 25th Annual Jazz & Blues Festival, Glendale Arts, Glendale, AZ
2007		7+7+7=21, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Yoko Ono: Imagine Film, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Do Me, Trunk Space and Phoenix New Times, February 22, 2007, Phoenix, AZ Bind, University of Arizona Poetry Center,Tucson, AZ Super Fluid, Center for the Arts, Paradise Valley Community College, Paradise Valley, AZ Postcards from the Edge Benefit for Visual AIDS, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006		Photo Miami, International Contemporary Fair for Photo-Based Art, Video & New Media, Lisa Sette Gallery, Miami, FL Love Stories, Trunk Space & Writers' Bloc, Phoenix, AZ Hair, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Noice: Celebration of poetry and music, Writers' Bloc at Modified, Phoenix, AZ
2005		Phoenix is on Fire, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Phoenix, AZ Looking for Yoko Ono, Hometown Video Festival, Monterey, CA Tight, POST, Los Angeles, CA Garage S., Art Detour, Phoenix, AZ
2003		You Still Draw Like a Girl, Sixth Street Studios, Phoenix, AZ Cité des Ondes, Champ Libre, Montreal, Québec No Festival Required Part 9, Phoenix, AZ
2002		Solstice: On Location, Summer Solstice Festival, Santa Barbara, CA
2001		Nooks and Crannies, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2000		Touching Revolution, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Wayfinders, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
1999		Out West, Plan B, Santa Fe, NM Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Ignitions, HazMat Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ Troubling Customs, Ontario College of Art and Design Gallery, Toronto, Canada; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1998 -96		Moving Forward with Awareness and Compassion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort- Collins, CO; and Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
1997		Testing Waters, Art on the Edge of Fashion, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Queer in 2000, Millennium Understood, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1996		Body, Object, Site: Artists of the Deep Creek School, Ice House, Phoenix, AZ Coupled, A-1 Nonprofit Art Space, Knoxville, TN
1995		A Fairy Tale, Tucson Poetry Festival XIII, Center for Performing Arts, Tucson, AZ Blood Brothers, World AIDS Day Event, Ice House/Crash Arts, Phoenix, AZ
1994		Let Them Eat Marmalade, deCompression Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
1993		Mary, The Moon & Me, Toole Shed Studios, Tucson, AZ
1992		Focus and Control: Lessons Learned in Bed, Video Tensions Festival, Tucson, AZ Forums, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Disseminating Allegories, Willow Gallery, New York, NY
1991		Outdoor Sculpture Show, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY A Propensity Towards War, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY Towards 2000, Wood-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1990		14th Small Works Exhibition, NYU Washington Sq. East Galleries, New York, NY
1989		Snug Harbor Sculpture Festival, Newhouse Center, Staten Island, NY
1988		Surrealism Continued, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

selected awards, grants, residencies

Artist Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2007
Percent for Art Commission, Scottsdale Public Art/Scottsdale Cultural Council, Scottsdale, AZ, 2007
Artist Residency, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY, 2006
Award for Innovation, Looking for Yoko Ono, Hometown Video Festival, Monterey, CA, 2005
Percent for Art Commission, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Phoenix, AZ, 2004
Artist's Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, AZ, 1997
Phoenix Art Museum Contemporary Forum, Materials Grant Fund, Phoenix, AZ, 1996

selected publications, articles, reviews

Upcoming: John Killacky, editor, Momma's Boys, collection to be published in 2009
Lilia Menconi, "Forever Young," Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, AZ, February 22-28, 2007
Chris Santa Maria, "7+7+7=21 at Lisa Sette Gallery," Hearsight, Phoenix, AZ, July 14, 2007, http://hearsight.com/index.html
Amy Silverman, "The 'Do Me' crowd" Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, AZ, February 22-28, 2007
Gregory Sale, "Reprint. Gregory Sale does Deborah Sussman Susser," Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, AZ, February 22-28, 2007
Kurt von Behrmann, "Gregory Sale: Private Art in Public Spaces--Expressing the Personal through Conceptual Art," Outlook Arizona, October/November 2006
Edward Booth-Clibborn, Phoenix: 21st Century City, Booth-Clibborn Editions, UK,2006
Richard Nelson, "Gallery has lock on impact of hair," Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, July 30, 2006
Wynter Holden, "Shear Magic," Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, AZ, July 20-26, 2006
Leanne Potts, "Text Message: Explore the Studio in Gregory Sale's Head," Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, AZ, March 2-8, 2006
Kathleen Vanesian, "Girls, Uninterrupted. This Show Impressed Even the Harshest Critic." Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, AZ, October 9, 2003
Ernest McIntyre, "Still Looking for Yoko," Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, November 1, 2002
Margaret Regan, "Haz Mat Arrives," The Tucson Weekly, Tucson, AZ, December 10, 1999
Lucio Pozzi and Bradley Rubenstein, "Teach Art," New Observations, New York, NY, 1998
Margaret Regan, "Gender School," The Tucson Weekly, Tucson, AZ, January 12, 1994
Robert Mahoney, "New York in Review: Snug Harbor Sculpture Festival," Arts Magazine, New York, NY, November 1989
Vivian Raynor, "Sculpture Show with Strong Messages," The New York Times, NJ edition, New York, NY, August 6, 1989
Chris Redd, "Surrealism Revised and Revisited," Arts Journal, Greensboro, NC, July, 1988

education

M.F.A. Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1995
B.F.A. Sculpture & B.A. French, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1987

professional experience

Visiting Assistant Professor of Intermedia, Arizona State University, Herberger College of the Arts, School of Art, Tempe, AZ, 2007-present
Visual Arts Director, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ, 2000-2007

Contact Gregory Sale

145 West Palm Lane
Phoenix, Arizona 85003
(602) 405-0782 c

Projects

This page is under construction.

Projects by Gregory Sale will be posted soon. To view his most recent series, visit www.love-buttons.com.