Greg Lookerse’s life goal is to help people understand the value of art and how it can help us connect with God. His mixed media drawings, installations and performances question the nature of sacred objects: dissecting them, rearranging them and often finding something new. He uses a variety of mediums, and collaborates on interdisciplinary projects such as the 2019 “Toward Convergence” performance with colleagues at Hope College, which included jazz music, poetry, dance and Greg’s visual art.

He teaches Basic Design, Design 2 and Time Based Art, and mentors Hope students involved in independent projects. Elsewhere, Greg has also taught courses in drawing, sculpture, new media and conceptual approaches to creative practices.

He’s a writer, too. His 2021Notes from Underwateris a novel in the form of letters and more than 180 drawings.

格雷格第一次对自己的艺术职业有所了解，是在他童年在加州时，收到了一份令人惊喜的艺术用品礼物。大学一年级的时候，他原本打算为牧师而学习，但他发现大学的艺术课是一个富有成效的环境，可以探索大的想法，同时在画布或纸上创作和谈论非常小的东西。在艺术专业毕业后，他搬到了波士顿，在那里他获得了美术硕士学位，并在波士顿地区和国际上的个人、两人和群展中大量展出他的作品。他于2019年加入希望学院。世界杯荷兰vs厄瓜多尔走地

Education

• MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, 2014
• BFA, Biola University, 2005

Selected Honors, Grants and Awards

• “Forging Ahead,” Nyenhuis Research Grant, Hope College, 2022
• “Art Can Help Faith,” Vital Worship Grant, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, 2021
• Portal to the World Research Group Grant, American University in Paris, 2020
• Featured in “10 Contemporary Artists to Watch,” invaluable.com, 2016
• Emerging Artist Award, St. Botolph Club Foundation, 2016
• Traveling Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016
• T. Chan Sculpture Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2014

Selected Recent Exhibitions

• Here After, group exhibition at Bridge Projects (Santa Monica, CA), 2022
• A Drawing/Dance Collaboration, Elevator Gallery at Hope College, 2021
• Artrageous! 34, group exhibition at Montserrat College (Beverly, MA), 2020
• Assisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Art Gallery Logge (Assisi, Italy), 2020
• Toward Convergence, Hope College, 2019
• Evocations,A R E A Gallery (Boston), 2018
• Literary Soil, Fruitlands Museum (Harvard, MA), 2018
• Communing With Silence, Piano Craft Gallery (Boston), 2016
• Everything is God to Me and Everything is Dust to Me, Kingston Gallery (Boston), 2015

View Artwork by Greg Lookerse

Publications

• Notes from Underwater,Scapegoat Press, 2021
• Artscope Magazinereview, August 2017
• Bay State Bannerreview, July 2017
• Art New England Preview, July/August 2017

Outside the College

Greg enjoys hiking and foraging in West Michigan woods, sometimes with his Siberian Husky, Fawkes.