Born 1972, Los Angeles, Ca.

Resides and works Calabasas, Ca.

Education:

Orange County High School of the Arts 1990

 Gregory Arnold (b. 1972, Los Angeles)  is a Japanese-American multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Calabasas, Ca. He studied art at OCHSA and afterwards played in notorious L.A. bands like Thelonious Monster, Bicycle Thief, and Residual Echoes. After exhibiting works in group shows at punk spaces like Echo Curio, The Smell, and other small galleries in china town and Echo park, Greg took a sabbatical as the creative director for his own brand Dark Horse before returning to his first passion of oil painting on large canvas. 

His works generally reflect a solemn post narcotic dream space of landscapes melted by time and blackened by the light. Working in many layers of minimal brush strokes in a monochromatic palette, his final layering is often a series of kinetic, trance-like marks made with brushes, hands, and fingers. While Greg’s works pull great inspiration from traditional Japanese painting and zazen, the linear timeline of western art and an objective portrayal of reality are always lurking just beneath the surface.

Exhibitions:

Solo show MOOI 1700 w sunset blvd, June 2010

Group show Echo Curio, Echo Park, September 2009

Group Show Two Headed Horse, LA,July 2009

Group Show Pehrspace, LA, August, 2008

Group Show The Smell, LA, Summer 2008