Hello, I'm Gregory Malphurs.

I paint to disrupt certainty. Growing up between two opposing worlds—strict control and complete freedom—the tension between what we’re told to believe and what actually feels true showed up early, and it never left me. My work lives in that space. My work doesn’t offer easy answers. It deliberately obscures them, building tension by giving you just enough to recognize something, but not enough to feel certain. When you stand in front of one of my paintings, you’re not just looking at it—you’re participating in it. The work acts as a mirror. What you see says as much about you as it does about the image itself. Approval isn’t the point. The reaction is — how you interpret what you’re seeing, what you project onto it, what you recognize. I’ve been making paintings for over 30 years. And my work is held in private collections across the United States, Europe, South America, and Australia. I live and work in Joshua Tree.