Life & Work with Greg Hausler

Today we’d like to introduce you to Greg Hausler. They and their team shared their story with us below:

Greg Hausler is a New York-born and Kansas-raised artist who graduated from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting. He creates mixed-media abstract paintings on unconventional surfaces such as clothing and textiles, inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s readymades and street art culture. His expressive painting technique combines the gestural energy of Jackson Pollock with the luminous color of Claude Monet, resulting in a style that is uniquely his own.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I don’t know any artist who has had a smooth road. I started painting as a teenager and stopped when I went to college to study engineering. I failed engineering and switched majors to painting. After graduation, I moved from the Midwest to New York, hoping to make it as an artist or work with one. I realized that I needed clerical skills that I didn’t have, so I couldn’t find work in New York. Years later, I moved to North Carolina, started a family, and neglected painting for decades until I met my second wife, who encouraged me to build a studio and paint again. That was about 3 years ago, and now I’m obsessed with painting again. Within a year, I was exhibiting my paintings in Europe. The struggles are still there, but the passion is stronger and helps me overcome most obstacles that life throws at me.

Thanks – so, what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
My work is original and distinctive. No one who has seen it has said that it looks like anyone else’s work. I have been influenced by many famous artists, but my paintings are unlike any of them. That is perhaps my greatest pride. I prefer to show people my paintings before telling them what I do. When I say that I create abstract paintings on clothing, fabric, and objects, they imagine something very different from what the paintings are. Even a picture often fails to capture the richness of texture in my paintings.

What does success mean to you?
I want my work to touch people long after I am gone. That is the ultimate success for me. Until then, I feel successful when I can say to myself, “This painting is done and ready to be signed.”

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