Gregory Thielkers awe-inspiring oil paintings explores the sensation of seeing through a car windshield while driving through the rain.
His paintings are so realistic that you could almost feel the wet and cold weather.
The water creates a shifting lens for the way we see the environment- both highlights and obscures our viewing.
Perspectives slip and compress, while shapes and colors merge into one another.
I also work with relationships between surface and depth, between flatness and illusion.
I draw upon a lineage of painters from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter.
Gregory Thielker was born in New Jersey in 1979 and he currently lives and works in Watertown, Massachusetts.
