Alvin Gregorio is a Homesick Gypsy
Alvin Gregorio is a “homesick gypsy” who also happens to be an Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His work seems to have popped straight out of a children’s TV show. The characters in his paintings remind me of human-faced Teletubbies on acid, surrounded by freaky Barney-like animals floating in a spraypaint dreamspace. Children with numb expressions in furry animal costumes exist in worlds of acid-bright color, tiny helicopters, and furbie owls.
His canvases are full of geometric shapes , child-like markings, stencils, intricate patterning, life and color from top to bottom... His work is not only interesting because of the eye-catching color and compositions, but also because of the psychological mood induced by it. Despite the whimsical colors, there is something dark and mysterious, something about a childhood gone awry; a little boy stuck in bad trip.
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