ARTIST STATEMENT
Sometimes, when the conditions are right, I find it possible to embrace an understanding wherein all notions of construction and destruction are just diversions–diversions of perception and of mind, intermingled with an infinite and endless series of diversions in the physical world as it perpetually co-arises interdependently.  This is like this because that is like that.  I see things as growing or dying, coming or going, rising or falling, beautiful or ugly and so on, because I experience them from a point of view.  A viewpoint.  A place of solidity and permanence that I believe I occupy.  But this is not true.  My place in the world is ever changing.  I inter-am with the world and I change as it changes. There never exists a locked-in spot from which to make these distinctions.  I might say, this lovely flower is beautiful, fresh and growing and that ugly branch is rotted and dying.  But when I stop and look deeply I can see that the flower and the branch inter-are.  The flower is because the branch is and the branch is because the flower is.  Conditions are such that the beautiful flower manifests in the now and the rich soil created by the branch nourishes that beauty.  They co-arise.  No soil, no plants and flowers. No plants and flowers, no soil.  When I am at peace, and I can see clearly my eternal place in the noumenal world, and the phenomenal world as ever changing and interdependent, I am open to the heart of compassion. All the physical world inter-is.  It exists in equanimity and the distinctions we make are mere matters of thinking.  To help me see things this way, sometimes I enjoy contemplations of the sub-atomic world, the world of wavicles and light.  I can see in this micro-world that all is springing forth from a holy and unknowable realm. To be moved by the rich beauty in what was, is and will be a piece of trash, is to connect with the divine–to live life non-attached to notions, a gift.

BIO

Selected Exhibitions

2010 Diverted Destruction #3, group exhibition, The Loft at Liz’, Los Angeles

2010 Contraction #201, 202 & 203, Kenise Barnes Fine Art at Red Dot Art Fair, NYC

2009 Industrial Constraints Transformed…Whimsical Ponderings Meander KBFA, NY

2009 Corporate Thinking Transformed…Whimsical Ponderings Manifest KBFA, NY

2009 Diverted Destruction, group exhibition The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Dive-in, collaborative performance/installation with Christopher Smith, ? Stueben Gallery West, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Rubbish-Art and the Ecosystem, group exhibition, Artswestchester, White Plains, NY

2009 gregg hill: SMASHED, solo exhibition, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2008 Material Color, group exhibition, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

2008-Day laborers to do the work for us, with Christopher Smith, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2008 Inside The Grid, group exhibition, Serrano Contemporary, Chelsea, NY

2008 gregg hill: SMASHED, solo exhibition, Serrano Contemporary, Chelsea, NY

2008 gregg hill: SMASHED, solo exhibition, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY

2006 Ridgefield Guild of Artists Annual Exhibition, Ridgefield, CT

2006 What You See is What You Have, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY

Audio Productions

2004 Smell the Huf, Produced by Gregg Hill and Peter Denenberg, Acme, Mamaroneck, NY

2003 Between the Lines, Co-writer with Sloan Wainwright

2001 The Sparrows, with John Bruce, Produced by Peter Denenberg, Acme, Mamaroneck, NY

1999 Monkeys, Co-writer for Lackey on Capitol Records

1998 Milo, with John Bruce, Marengo Records, Nashville, TN

Publications

2009 Catalog for Corporate Thinking Transformed…, with essay by Gregg Hill

2009 Material Color, exhibition catalog, The Hunterdon County Art Museum, Clinton, NJ.

2009 Catalog for gregg hill:SMASHED for Marcia Wood with essay by gregg hill, February.

2008 Catalog for gregg hill:SMASHED for 3rd Rail and Serrano Contemporary with essay by Mark Daniel Cohen.

2008 ArtExit Magazine, Review of SMASHED, June.

2008 The New York Optimist, Review for SMASHED, June, vol 1 issue 1

2008 Chase-Gulden, Amy,

Review of SMASHED, Apartment Therapy, June 5.

2006 Sank, Adam “What You See is What You Have” The New York Times, June 17.  Photo.

Education

2004… …Study of Buddhist practice with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

2008  SUNY Purchase, NY

1997-98 The University of Chicago

1980-85 Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, B.A.