Gregory Coates
Gregory Coates
Workspace Program Resident 1994
Gregory Coates achieves another kind of rhetoric in 4-R. His asymmetrical collage of wood, paper and paint abandons traditional means of producing art. The paper and wood construction celebrates urban melancholy, like that found in walls left standing at an old-law tenement demolition site. Coates is inventive with his use of found materials, which create unique works each with their own untold story.
About the Artist
Gregory Coates (b. 1961-) grew up in Washington, DC and attended Corcoran School of Art. He later traveled abroad for 18 months to Germany and while attending the prestigious Kunst Akademie in Düsseldorf. Coates was awarded grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, in addition to a various grants, including a New York State Foundation Grant.