Gregory Alan Turner

GAT

The shortest version: Gregory Alan Turner (GAT) is a self-taught artist living and working in Gainesville, FL.

Photo of the artist in his studio. He stands with hand atop his head and the other on his hip. He's clearly confused, looking out of frame and seeking something. The blue he swears he set on the side table and now has mysteriously disappeared.

Just another white guy copying Basquiat

Maybe (probably) true. But hopefully stealing from Basquiat. And probably stealing from a lot of other influences:

  • Craig Stecyk

  • Vernon Courtland Johnson

  • Roy Lichtenstein

  • Jack Kirby

  • Jim Phillips

  • Frank Miller

  • Andy Warhol

  • Keith Haring

  • Barbara Kruger

  • Jenny Holzer

  • Zines and Fliers

  • Renee Magritte (everyone’s favorite surrealist)

  • James Earle Fraser

  • Tom Sachs

  • Pablo Picasso

  • Marcel Duchamp

  • Takashi Murakami

Plus a whole slew of people who work impacted me in some way but whose names I can’t remember or place.