Gordon M. Green & GK Khalsa Exhibit at Gallery A3 in January 2025
 
Gordon M. Green displays abstract paintings that improvise with gestural brushwork to evoke a naturalistic landscape, while GK Khalsa presents a retrospective of drawings, spanning more than four decades.

Gordon M. Green: Improvisations
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In this series of mid-sized abstract paintings, Green uses naturalistic and painterly gestures to create bright and joyful landscape-like compositions. As a painter and improvising composer, he approaches paintings the same way one might approach a musical improvisation, letting one gesture inform the next until a sense of completeness arrives. This series was inspired in part by local forests as well as the forests of southern Finland, where the pines and mosses of the sunny boreal landscape entwine with rocky formations worn by coastal waters, resulting in a sense of both woodland peace and lilting fluidity.
 
Green is a composer, painter, and spatial software developer living in Amherst. He has MFAs and a PhD in those fields, respectively. His paintings are in collections in New York and New England, and a portfolio of his work is available at gordonmgreen.com/art ​

GK Khalsa: Drawings from 1970 to 2024

​In a retrospective of drawings, GK Khalsa reaches back more than four decades and embraces varied materials and modes of visual investigation. “Drawing, to me, is the building block of making art,” he says. His many years of studying the human figure and drawing from cadavers gave him the tools he needed to be an artist. 
 
The earliest drawings, dating from when he was eleven or twelve, focus on architecture, including his childhood home. Drawings of a rusty muffler, done several years later, suggest subject matter as a means to explore positive and negative space. Another early series, combining elements of a portrait of his grandfather, depictions of his own hands, and the reappearance of that rusty muffler, demonstrate GK’s exploration of media. Later works—with imagery as varied as human anatomy and sunflowers—reveal his consistent commitment to observation and expression through drawing.