My personal connection to landscape has always been the driving force behind my painting. This process is part of an ongoing search for putting my experience of the world into visual forms.
Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, instilled in me a love of the prairie and wide-open spaces, an affinity that is deeply ingrained. On family road trips to the West, my siblings and I searched the sky for the first sight of the Rockies. There were grand sunsets in Montana, vast distances on the high plains of Wyoming, and organic rock forms in the Utah desert.
After studying figure drawing at Washington University and apprenticing with a local weaver, I spent the summer before college living with an Irish family in County Clare, Ireland, and painting the landscape. I received my BFA from Tufts University and a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Boston Museum School.
I work and live in New York City. My work is in the collections of Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop in the Library of Congress; the late sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and his wife, painter, Sheila Girling; and in other private and corporate collections in the US, Canada, and Britain.
Contact: kylegallupstudio@gmail.com
Kyle Gallup’s Resume: view here