Stream of Stars

Artist Bio

Greg Mort is a widely recognized American contemporary artist whose artwork is in many prominent collections including the Smithsonian, National Gallery of Art, Boston Museum of Science, Farnsworth Museum and Portland Museum. Greg believes in the ideals of cultural diplomacy and recently had paintings at The White House as part of the U.S. State Department Art in Embassies program. Greg’s artwork has been exhibited in over one hundred museum and gallery shows around the world. Most recently in “Lunar Attractions” at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA and “Starry Skies of Art” at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland and The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Currently, his art is part of the Academy Art Museum’s AAM@60 Diamond Anniversary exhibition. Greg’s “ZERO-G Apples” was one of six paintings juried into “The First Art Show in Space” aboard the International Space Station. In 2007 he established The Art of Stewardship, his family foundation that supports and inspires ecological consciousness through the arts. Greg is the featured artist in the Island Institute’s 2020 Island Journal magazine. He is a self-taught artist, passionate amateur astromomer, and competitive archer. Winters Greg lives and paints in rural Maryland and in summers Port Clyde, Maine. He is represented by the Massoni Art Gallery and Somerville Manning Gallery.

Creative Process

Media: Clay for the handcrafted shells and starfish, natural objects including shells and sand, and the background painting is created with acrylic paint on museum board. The large Maine carnivorous welk is the actual shell used in Greg’s original 1984 painting by the same title. Frame: wood and plexiglass.