Hornbeak Biography

A commercially successful and critically acclaimed abstract artist, Gregg Hornbeak lives on Cypress Black Bayou north of Shreveport/Bossier, in a studio house not far from where he grew up in the small paper mill town of Springhill, Louisiana.

Hornbeak has attended several universitites, studying art and architecture at Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Louisiana, Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, and Louisiana State University in Shreveport.

Gregg has had shows in Shreveport, Louisiana; Hot Springs, Arkansas; Pensacola, Florida and in the famed Deep Ellum district of Dallas, Texas.

Over the years Hornbeak has placed a number of pieces around the Ark-La-Tex. In fact, many of his works are in bank towers, hospital atriums, hotel lobbies, restaurants, corporate headquaters, and many private collections.

Artist Statement

The act of painting is the art. The painting is the documentation of the act. My paintings are large scale color-field canvases saturated with lumunious color and filled with architypical shapes of mandalas and matrixes.

To the laymen they are just colors and shapes, but for me they are intensely spiritual and introspective.

There is a duality of simplicity and complexity in my work. It has been distilled and refined, allowing the geometry and the colors to create unity and harmony.

I strive to create a contemplative art for a world constantly in turmoil, to create a positive force in a negative world, to make art that is timeless and without boundaries.

Contemporary art is the contemporary experience - it is different for each of us. There is no good art or bad art - only art.

Gregg Hornbeak,
contempory artist