Artist40: Gregory Euclide

I first saw Gary Euclide's art on Bon Iver's 2011 album cover. When I started looking more into his work, I really liked what I found. He explores a really diverse but unified set of styles and mediums within his body of work. He consistently works with landscapes, including only limited references to humanity in his work, showing only buildings and other man-made objects in nature but no figures.

His 2-D pieces, often cut and crumpled, are rich landscapes with swirling lines complementing the treeline and hills.

Moving into his mixed-media reliefs, the folding, tearing, and molding of the paper comes into heavier play. Other objects and sculpted pieces are also included, creating a strange mix of 3-D and 2-D.

His installations continue the unique, impromptu feel of the previous two styles. 

His work comes off as a mix of careful craft, intimate familiarity with landscape, and pieces taken from miniature maps. Small plastic trees complement shredded, bent paper as Euclide demonstrates understanding of the most subtle forms and aesthetic intricacies of the landscapes he creates in his own carefully messy way.