"When Light Breaks" - a solo exhibition by Gregory Thielker

Square One is proud to invite you to the opening reception for Gregory Thielker's solo exhibition "When Light Breaks". Opening at Square One Gallery Friday, October 17th from 6-9pm. Join us for an evening with the artist present, cocktails, and refreshments.

Gregory Thielker: When Light Breaks

Washington University MFA Graduate Gregory Thielker is an American artist, currently based in Paris. For many years, Thielker has been focused on a familiar perspective, the landscape seen from inside of the car. He has taken this theme to ambitious lengths, with series documenting roadways globally, but at heart, his work is a visceral exploration of the unnoticed.

For Thielker, the sensation of movement has long been an inspiration. Whether in the detailed renderings of the road glimpsed through a rain-soaked windshield, or in his more analytical explorations of historic routes across conflict zones, motion has remained his central pursuit. In "When Light Breaks", Thielker turns toward speed itself—an element seldom captured in the stillness of painting.

These newest canvases describe a landscape in flux. Roads, trees, and sky dissolve into one another; light flares only in fragments at the horizon, as though forever just out of reach. Propelled forward, the viewer is drawn into a state where perception stretches and blurs. Working from photographs of roadways across America and Europe, Thielker employs photography not merely as reference but as catalyst—summoning feelings that transcends the optical. These works speak to the emotional terrain of velocity: that paradoxical freedom and separation found in speed, when the world unravels into a kaleidoscope of shifting color and memory.

Join us for the reception

Friday, October 17th // 6-9pm

4814 Washington Blvd, STL

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