BIOGRAPHY

Greg Streak Greg Streak is an interdisciplinary practitioner working in sculpture, video, installation and documentary film-making. His cool aesthetic, even minimalist work, is characterized by formalistic concerns and a preoccupation with the materiality of substance and things, but also space, both physical and psychological. Streak has a sharply critical and eclectic eye. One of the more prolific artists of his generation, he has focused on both his individual pursuits as well as orchestrating large scale projects that he has both conceptualized and curated. Where most tend to specialize in search of a formula, Streaks' work is characterized by an almost Naumanesque boastfulness - he is able to control almost any medium he turns to. His nuanced observations and idiosyncratic perspectives on the mundane, coupled with his ability to speak and write articulately are distinctive qualities. Where some of his object-based work refers directly to retraction and isolation in ways that sublimate the ‘human’ almost completely, some of Streak’s earlier video work explores these psychological interstices in an embodied way: they are figurative studies which retain elements of human identification and in this, imply the possibility of transformation. Streak lives and works out of Durban, South Africa and Amsterdam, Netherlands. www.gregstreak.com