Glen Cebulash (Ohio) curriculum vitae
“While I maintain an abiding interest in and love for landscape, still-life and portraiture as well as a perception-based method of working, I am also a studio painter, interested in the nexus between memory and plastic imagination and an abstract language of forms.  Within this context of an abstract formal language the recurring theme in my painting is that of the figure group. Working in a largely improvisational manner, and inspired by both gestural abstraction and French constructivism, I’m interested in building spatial and figurative structures out of color and gesture and the ongoing dialog between abstract and representational imagery. Often, paintings begin with only a hint of a plan. Forms are added, erased and reevaluated and the architecture is constantly rearranged to accommodate the ever-changing population of figures. What I am after, finally, is an image of energy with insistent rhythms and a psychological and formal tension arising out of the collision of abstract and figurative forces.”

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Glen Cebulash, Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Wright State University, is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing. He received his BFA from Boston University and his MFA from The American University in Washington D.C. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States, most recently at The 32nd Annual Bradley Invitational, The Bowery Gallery in N.Y.C., and the Swope Museum of American Art in Terre Haute, IN. Since 2007 he has been an active member in the painting collective Midwest Paint Group.

Working in a largely improvisational manner, and inspired by both gestural abstraction and French constructivism, I'm interested in building spatial and figurative structures out of color and gesture and the ongoing dialog between abstract and representational imagery.