Gregory Jamie

Greg Jamie is a musician and visual artist living and working in Portland Maine. After a decade of focusing primarily on songwriting and touring, Greg began touring less and got more involved in creating abstract-narrative watercolor paintings and drawings. He has recently shown work at Portland Museum of Art for Untitled, 2020 : Art in a ____ Time , the CMCA 2020 Biennial, Able Baker The Missing Second Half and elsewhere. He is also a film programmer at SPACE Gallery, and a partner at The Apohadion Theater, both in Portland Maine. He has a BFA in Film at SUNY Purchase, and is an upcoming artist in residence at Surf Point in York, Maine, 2022.

Statement:

Abstract and childlike creatures are being punished by nature for wandering outside of their parameters. these are beings consumed by nature. the myths aren’t established, the symbolism has no frame of reference, but the stories are vibrant fairy tales that are endless. Greg Jamie’s watercolors are part of an ongoing series of paintings that play with folklore as a non-nostalgic, immediate and dreamlike form. there is an odd juxtaposition of vibrant colors and muted, tonally dark settings. inspired by self taught artists Martin Ramirez, Henry Darger, Carol Rama, Bill Traylor, and John Lurie- Greg Jamie additionally works to create his own symbolic language and unspecific mythic beings caught in nightmarish landscapes. these works hold each other up- informing each other and strengthening each other by being shown side by side.

Education

BFA, Film (2005 graduate)
SUNY Purchase
Conservatory of Theater Arts and Film

Selected work experience

Film Programmer [2020-Present] SPACE Gallery, Portland ME
Partner, Music and Film Programmer, Manager [2017-Present] The Apohadion Theater, Portland ME
Co-Founder, Music and Film Programmer [2010-2014] The Oak and the Ax, Biddeford ME

Selected Exhibitions

2021 Art in the time of ______ , Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2020 CMCA Biennial , Center for Maine Contemporary Art,, Rockland, ME
2019 The Missing Half, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
2019 Absent Myths : Watercolor by Greg Jamie , Border Patrol, Portland ME
2017 Right Side Out: Self Portraits , Able Baker Contemporary, Portland ME
2016 Trail Off, (Curator and Programmer) SPACE Gallery, Portland ME

Music: recordings as singer, songwriter, guitarist, performer

2019 Animal Hides , Blood Warrior (released by Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
2018 Crazy Time, Greg Jamie (released by Orindal Records)
2015 Letter Ghost , Blood Warrior (released by Immune Recordings)
2014 Youthful Dementia, G. Jamie C. Nathan (released by Feeding Tube Records)
2014 Out of Hands We Go, o’death (released by Northern Spy Records)
2011 Outside, o’death (released by City Slang and Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
2009 Blood Warrior, Blood Warrior (released by Ernest Jenning Record Co and Safety Meeting)
2008 Broken Hymns, o’death (released by City Slang and Kemado Records)
2007 Head Home, o’death (released by City Slang and Ernest Jenning Record Co)

Residencies and Awards