Gordon M. Green & GK Khalsa to Exhibit Work at Gallery A3 in January

Gordon M. Green and GK Khalsa will exhibit works throughout the month of January at Gallery A3, 28 Amity Street 1D. Gallery hours are 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. There will be an opening reception at the gallery on Thursday, January 2 from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. The event is free and open to all. The exhibition will run untl Saturday, February 1, 2025.

Gordon M. Green displays abstract paintings that improvise with gestural brushwork to evoke a naturalistic landscape, while GK Khalsa presents a retrospective of drawings, spanning more than four decades. 

Gordon M. Green : Improvisations
In this series of mid-sized abstract paintings, Green uses naturalistic and painterly gestures to create bright and joyful landscape-like compositions. As a painter and improvising composer, he approaches paintings the same way one might approach a musical improvisation, letting one gesture inform the next until a sense of completeness arrives. This series was inspired in part by local forests as well as the forests of southern Finland, where the pines and mosses of the sunny boreal landscape entwine with rocky formations worn by coastal waters, resulting in a sense of both woodland peace and lilting fluidity.

Green is a composer, painter, and spatial software developer living in Amherst. He has MFAs and a PhD in those fields, respectively. His paintings are in collections in New York and New England, and a portfolio of his work is available at gordonmgreen.com/art 

GK Khalsa:  Drawings from 1970 to 2024
In a retrospective of drawings, GK Khalsa reaches back more than four decades and embraces varied materials and modes of visual investigation. “Drawing, to me, is the building block of making art,” he says. His many years of studying the human figure and drawing from cadavers gave him the tools he needed to be an artist.  

The earliest drawings, dating from when he was eleven or twelve, focus on architecture, including his childhood home. Drawings of a rusty muffler, done several years later, suggest subject matter as a means to explore positive and negative space. Another early series, combining elements of a portrait of his grandfather, depictions of his own hands, and the reappearance of that rusty muffler, demonstrate GK’s exploration of media. Later works—with imagery as varied as human anatomy and sunflowers—reveal his consistent commitment to observation and expression through drawing. 

About Gallery A3
Gallery A3 is a fine art gallery in downtown Amherst, Massachusetts. Members of the artist-run cooperative include painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers, plus mixed media and fiber artists.

Gallery A3 was founded in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. A group of local artists believed art to be essential to the health and healing of a community and began the gallery as a place to share ideas and artistic support. Since that time, the gallery has been home to over 60 artists and is now celebrating 22 years of monthly shows with monthly openings and forums, all free and open to the public, and an annual juried show that supports local and regional artists. It is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.