After twelve years of theater work in San Francisco and the Bay Area, I was hijacked by a wave and the impulse to carve stone, and at 28 my life took a path I did not anticipate. 

Thirty plus years later, I am still exploring the landscape of the heart and mind through the means of carving stone and making marks on paper.

I am a totem maker sort of sculptor rather than a monument maker:  I prefer to make small, intimate pieces. 

I have a few diverse directions that I travel simultaneously in both sculpting and drawing. 
The Solar Markers, for example, come from a much different space than the “touchy/feely” pieces that enjoy the celebration of form for it’s own sake.
I suppose that this is much the same as my enjoying the work of both Henry Moore and David Smith.

Some pieces come from planning.  Some come from letting my hands find the form and letting them surprise my mind.  It depends on how I feel.
Usually I have more than one piece in process.  When I get stumped, I let my unconscious mind work on it for a spell and return later with a new perspective.

I like to surprise myself.  Working directly in stone allows this to happen more often than planning pieces in another medium (plaster or clay, for instance) and copying them later.

Critical Commentary

Gregory Vose

Personal:

1947 Born in Pasadena, California.
1963-75 Actor on stage, mostly San Francisco.
1975 Began sculpting.  Apprentice with Richard O’Hanlon
1977 Certified welder.  Assistant to Fletcher Benton.
1981-90 Lived in Pietrasanta area of Italy.  Apprenticed with Jorgen Haugen Sorensen.
Worked on own at Henraux.
1990 Boilerroom Studio, South Boston, Mass.
1992 Rock Garden Studio, Taos, New Mexico.

Exhibitions:

1978 San Francisco Public Library
1982 Museo di Arte Moderna, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
1984 Den Flexible, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
1985 Castello di Malaspina Invitazionale, Massa, Italy
1987 Museo di Bozzetti, Pietrasanta, Italy
1988 Desegni dei Scultore, Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta, Italy
1989 Earl McGrath Gallery 454, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Open Studio Cooperative, Boston, MA
1992 Driskill Gallery, Austin, TX
1992 Rio del Norte Sculpture , Stables Gallery, Taos, NM
1992 San Diego Art Institute Invitational, San Diego, CA
1992 Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1993 Rod Goebel Gallery, Taos, NM
1994 Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM (one man show)
1995 Taos Art Association guest curator, “Parallel Lines-Sculpture & Photography”, Taos, NM
1996 Santa Fe College of Art Juried show, Santa Fe, NM
1996 Los Alamos 2nd Annual Juried show, Los Alamos, NM
1997-2007 Fenix Gallery, Taos NM
2000 “ Millennium” , Taos. NM
2005 Best of Taos, Taos, NM
2005-2007 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005-2006 Rift Gallery, Rinconada, NM Invitational show

Collections:

Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Intel Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
Lejerbo Corp., Copenhagen, Denmark
Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta, Italy
Dietz/Parsons Collection, Detroit, MI
Private collections, USA & Europe