Tonya Gregg is a painter and drawer which focuses on women, pop-culture, and truths. Tonya Gregg is an artist born and raised in South Carolina. She attended the Governor’s School for the Arts Gifted and Talented program where she received a BFA in painting. She is also attended the University of Chicago, Maryland Institute, and College of Arts. These colleges led her to be the first full-time student to be featured in New American Paintings. Ever since then she has featured her paintings abroad in places such as, Germany, Nicaragua, England and Canada. Recently, she has travelled to parts of Asia, which currently influences her art.
In the Tonya’s Gregg Art Exhibition at Curtis Harley Gallery, she featured some of her paintings and drawings. This series featured a woman and three cherubs. Throughout her work this woman drifts through her own life and these cherubs, or the truths of life, guide her. In one of her paintings titled Dance in the Forest, the woman and one of the cherubs are missing. This particular painting features two of the cherubs. …show more content…
She has a certain style that I have not seen before. What I find interesting about her art are the truths she presents, such as Dance in the Forest. I feel drawn to her art because of her color choice. In Dance in the Forest she uses a very limited, but interesting color scheme. The UFO and explosion are presents in a color compliment, blue and orange. For the other cloud is represent in yellow. Pink from the dancing cherubs head explosion, interacts with this yellow and makes a really nice color combination as well as a linear path for the viewer’s eye to travel through. I am also really drawn to this piece compositionally because of the path that the painting sets for my eyes. I remember Gregg talking about her need to redo and repeat her art because she wants it to be perfect and robotic. I think that she is slowly achieving that aspect of robotic-ness that she