Artist in Action
Gronk (Glugio Gronk Nicandro) is a Los Angeles-based performance artist and painter.
He uses thick layers of intensely colored acrylic paint to create expansive, expressionistic images. His symbols and characters emanate less from waking life than from the unconscious zone where visions and nightmares take shape.
Gronk emphasizes performance because he wants to show people what artists do. Listen to his philosophy in our online interview.
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Gronk created the mural Tormenta Cantata, Echoes from the Past, live at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1996. See his process step by step in our QuickTime movies!
Pictured top: Gronk (born 1954) interacts with the audience while he creates a mural, live at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1996.
Source: Jacquelyn Days Serwer, with contributions by Jonathan P. Binstock, Andrew Connors, Gwendolyn H. Everett, and Lynda Roscoe Hartigan. American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1996).
Pictured bottom: Gronk sketching a mural at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.