Greg Lamarche

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Artist Biography

New York City, letters, graffiti and text all serve as sources of inspiration for Greg Lamarche. His collages incorporate found materials and a variety of commercially printed papers. The work plays with a profusion of font styles, word fragments and multiple layers and employs characteristics from graffiti such as repetition, bold colors, multiple perspectives and movement.

Born and raised in New York, Greg Lamarche has been making collages since the sixth grade when he used fire works wrappers gathered from the schoolyard as material. He began writing graffiti in 1981 and published Skills magazine during the early 90s. He has worked both as a designer and artist since 2000.

His work has been featured in numerous magazines including, New York Times Magazine, Print Magazine, Juxtapoz Modern Painters and Arkitip, among others. His artwork has also been published in several new books including, Graffiti New York, Ornamental Type and Piecebook Reloaded for which he created the cover graphics.

2010 so far has been a busy year with a solo exhibition at Show and Tell Gallery, Toronto as well as exhibitions in Stockholm, Australia, San Francisco and New York.

Curriculum Vitae

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Cut to The Chase, Show &Tell Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008 Things I Picked up Along the Way, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Corrugated Cuts and Collages, Reed Space, New York, NY
2005 Second Nature, Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Simple Pleasures, Mccaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 Common Denominator, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Small Worlds, Mccaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Down by Law, Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Group Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Letterheads, 1000 £ Bend, Melbourne Australia
Get it Together Again, Chicago Tourism Center, Chicago, IL
The Alphabet Show, Steinsland Berliner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2009
New York Then and Now, ACA Gallery, New York, NY
Get Over It, Show & Tell Gallery, Toronto, ON
The New Yorkers, V-1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008
The Piece Process, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY
Graffiti: Spirit of an Age, Longwood Art Gallery, Hostos College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY
Contain, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY
All Together Now, Pine Gallery, Ship Bottom, NJ
Combines, BLVD Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007
Homegrown, David Krut Projects, New York, NY
Cascading Mountains of Debris, OKOK Gallery, Seattle, WA,

2006
Spothunters, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA

2005
Other Possibilities, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Dreamland Artist Club 2005, Creative Time/ Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY

2004
Word, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
The Dreamland Artist Club, Creative Time / Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Clash of the Titans, Mccaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
New York Subway Graffiti, Tod Lange, Schiffer, 2009
Graffiti New York, Eric Feisbret, Abrams, 2009
New Skateboard Graphics. J Namdev Hardisty, Mark Batty Publisher, 2009
Piecebook Reloaded, David Villorente and Sacha Jenkins, Prestel Books, 2009
Ornamental Type. Steven Heller, Thames & Hudson, 2010
Creative Time: The Book. Anne Pasternak and Lucy Lippard, Princeton Architectural Press, NY, 2008
Definition: The Art Design of Hip-Hop. Cey Adams and Bill Adler, Harper Collins, 2008
Piecebook, David Villorente and Sacha Jenkins, Prestel, 2008
Exploring Typography, Tova Rabinowitz, Thomson-Delmar, 2006
The Art of Getting Over, Stephen Powers, St. Martin’s Press,1999

SELECTED ARTICLES
Profile, Mikaela Sardo. Juxtapoz, September 2008, p. 156
All of a Piece, Caleb Neelon, Print, July/August, 2008, pp. 82- 89.
Greg Lamarche, Vaporz, July 2007, pp. 96-97
Greg Lamarche, Caleb Neelon, Juxtapoz, March, 2007, pp. 111-119
Artist Built, Jon Coen, N’East, Winter 2007, p. 26
Open Letters, Romain Dauriac, Clark, Winter 2007, pp. 90-91
SP1, Javier Villalba, Serie B, Winter 2007, pp. 38-42
Greg Lamarche, Stefano Viola, Garage Magazine, January, 2007, pp 68-71
Follow the Leaders: Greg Lamarche, Brian Scotto Mass Appeal, August, 2006, pp. 78-79
The Lettermen, Caleb Neelon, Swindle, No. 5, 2005, pp. 56-59
SP. One: The Story of a Graffiti Legend, Chris Force, Alarm, Winter 2005, pp. 70-77
Arkitip, No. 0031. 2005, pp- 42- 51

EDUCATION
Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH, BA, 1991