Bio

Gregory Sale is a multidisciplinary artist working conceptually in visual art, performance art, and community-based projects. The form and content of his work reflects a hybrid approach which incorporates the wry sensibility of Pop art, along with the optimism of Yoko Ono, the provocation of the Happenings, and the raw intensity of art in the age of AIDS.

His current project in the public sphere, Love Buttons employs poetic fragments to disperse a sea of poetry into crowds attending music festivals, art walks, and museum openings. The work connects through chance encounters and linguistic associations to spark contemplations on love. Organizations and institutions presenting Love Buttons in 2008 include Scottsdale Public Art Program; Glendale Arts; Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; and MOCA Tucson. His sound-based performance video, Looking for Yoko Ono debuted at Cité des Ondes, Champ Libre, Montreal; was presented by Lisa Sette Gallery at Photo Miami International Contemporary Fair, 2006; and included in Yoko Ono: Imagine Film at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2007. Love Stories, a series of text-based artworks, was co-presented by Trunk Space and Writers’ Bloc, Phoenix, 2006. Other notable projects and exhibitions include Hair, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale; Tight, POST Gallery, Los Angeles; You Still Draw Like a Girl, Sixth Street Studios, Phoenix; Phoenix is on Fire, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture; Nooks and Crannies, ASU Art Museum, Tempe; and Touching Revolution, Phoenix Art Museum.

His work has been supported by a project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and a Material Funds Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum. Awards include artist residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2007 and at Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY, 2006; and an Award for Innovation, Hometown Video Festival, Monterey, CA, 2005. He has a MFA in Art from University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, and a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in French Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Sale currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Intermedia at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.