Artist Statement: For all our attempts at understanding and our efforts to create order, in real life things tend to overlap in messy ways and accidents happen. My instinct is to suggest this somehow in my art…set up situations in which the material aspect intrudes upon the idea. My solar system work “Heliocentric Model (Nike Mars)” presents conflicting notions of movement and gravity. The Sun and orbiting planets are depicted with found balls (baseball, golf, ping pong, etc.), and the illusion of planetary motion runs counter to an awareness of the balls having been thrown, kicked and hit in their ‘previous lives.’ Swirled and splattered paint indicate another layer of motion and gravity, while shelves supporting some of the balls shatter any illusion of planetary movement. As a bonus, the Sun is represented by a soccer ball…symbolizing the central importance of football (soccer) in the international sports universe.

Greg Colson was raised in Bakersfield, California and lives and works in Los Angeles. His art has been the subject of many solo exhibitions internationally, including Thomas Park Gallery (Seoul, South Korea), Sperone Westwater (New York), Craig Krull Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), Cardi Gallery (Milan, Italy), Konrad Fischer (Dusseldorf, Germany), Sprovieri (London, UK), Baldwin Gallery (Aspen), Krannert Art Museum (Urbana-Champaign), and the Lannan Museum (Lake Worth, FL). His work is held in public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Panza Collection (Varese, Italy), Sammlung Rosenkranz (Berlin, Germany), and Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden).