Gronk

Gronk is a nationally renowned painter and performance artist from Los Angeles. During the 1970s, he was one of the founding members of ASCO, an avant-garde multi-media arts collective in Los Angeles. Gronk later turned his attention to drawing, painting and performance art in collaboration with musicians and performers and to stage design for institutions such as the Los Angeles Opera. He is best known for his murals and his very physical approach to painting. Much of his recent work has been done as temporary, mural-scale, site-specific paintings. Gronk’s work is represented in numerous private and museum collections across the country including the Corcoran Gallery of Art ( Washington, D.C.), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. He has been the subject of several one person exhibitions at museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Mexican Museum in San Francisco. Gronk has collaborated with Peter Sellars on two previous projects. He created the sets for Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat which was performed in Los Angeles, Palermo, Italy, Madrid and Paris. He also created the set for Jean Genet’s The Screens in Los Angeles. Next year, Gronk will be in Albuquerque for the world premiere of his BrainFlame at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. BrainFlame is a 14-minute computer animated piece created by Gronk specifically for the LodeStar Dome Theater. The 55-foot hemispheric screen contains 4,750 square feet of images ranging from a rocky desert landscape to a gigantic glass brain. The digital canvas fills viewers’ entire field of vision as they lean back in parallel with the 25 degree tilted dome.

Seminar speeches given by Gronk:

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