ACIDwork Studio
Prepare yourself for a magical and wondrous journey. At each page turn you'll find intricately detailed surrealist art by a masterful graphite illustrator. Greg A. Hogan is a self-taught freelance artist seasoned by decades of observation filtered through a unique perspective.
ABOUT the artist
BIO
Greg Hogan is a graphite artist whose love of detail and precision is only eclipsed by his ability to mix dark moods with surreal beauty and twisted humor. Creating beauty out of his disturbed perspective of the world, his art emerges as other-worldly and dreamlike. He occasionally works in other media such as watercolor, colored pencil, and digital. A child of the corn, Hogan was born in Gary, Indiana in the late 60’s. As a child, he found refuge in art, designing and drawing cars in incredible detail. Later, his love for art led him to a career in architecture, graduating from Ball State University with both a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design and Bachelor of Architecture. Architect by day, he found escape in after-midnight drawing sessions that allowed him to detach from the Matrix and feel human again. Often compared to H.R. Giger, his works are flights of fancy, pencil touching paper and moving intuitively until the markings reveal what is to be created. He lives with the love of his life, Mouse, as well as his other family: Maisy the cat, and a variety of birds, fish, a dog and a girlfriend.
Q. & A.
Q: What is the inspiration for your drawings?
A. The inspiration for my drawings comes from many different places, visions, and echoes from far-away alien lands. I find inspiration in the textures of cloud formations, cracks and veins in rocks, strange growth of trees, flowing eddies, and crashing waves. Occasionally I come up with a humorous twist on an old expression which leads to a story needing to be told. Most often it is the absurdity and torture of everyday life that brings a subject to the forefront.
Q: Where does your mind go when drawing?
A. More often than not my drawings start with a feeling and a random stroke of the pencil. I become a vessel through which the spirit of the paper reveals itself. Boundaries suggest shapes. Shapes suggest depth. Light, shade, tone and texture give reality to that which did not exist.
Q: How many hours go into one of your pieces?
A. I generally work on several pieces at a time. Each piece has a different vibe and energy associated with it. If I don’t connect with a certain piece on a given day then I move on to another until I find one that speaks to me. For these reasons I don’t really track time on a drawing. Sometimes I draw with feverish insanity and others it seems it takes an hour to draw a line. Depending on the detail and shading associated with a piece I estimate that my drawings take anywhere from eighty to one hundred sixty hours.