Jack, 1987
Oil on Canvas, 70" x 50"
Jobs in Heaven (Roofer), 1984
Acrylic on Canvas, 58" x 52"
Greg Drasler was born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1952. He received a B.F.A. in 1980 and an M.F.A. in 1983 from the University of Illinois in Champaign. His paintings have been shown in New York, San Francisco, Newark, New Jersey, and Chicago and are included in several private and public collections. Drasler received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 1991 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1993. His quasi-Surrealist work, which often places oversize utilitarian objects and figures engaged in mundane tasks in forbidding or elusive landscapes, probes the netherworld between memory and dream.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.