There is a playful, almost child-like quality to the artwork of GC Myers. The colors, forms and mark-making in his work all seem to flow with his imagination, with time and with life itself. He’ll be showing both new and old works at Principle Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, this summer.
Attunement, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 20 in.
“I chose Flow as the title for this year’s exhibit as the result of a serious cancer diagnosis I received this past year. Since I would be undergoing intensified hormone therapy and radiation treatments in the months leading up to the June show, there was a concern I might not be able to create enough new work for a complete show. However, the [gallery] and I were both committed to moving forward with this show,” he says.
Myers has been showing with Principle Gallery since 1997, and this will be his 27th consecutive solo show at the gallery, witnessing and supporting the growth of his art career for more than a quarter of a century. “And though there has been evolution and change in my work throughout the years, it is bound together by a continuum or continuity that runs through it. A flow,” says Myers.
Introspection, 2002, acrylic on paper, 20 x 16½ in.
Paintings in the upcoming exhibition span everything from his 2002 interior scene Introspection, featuring a lone red chair in a blue room, to his 2026 Attunement, in which a vivid red tree sits beneath a colossal moon.
His piece The Blue Moon Calls,painted in 2025, is a paradox. “It is obviously a snow scene, but it is paradoxically a warm painting with shades of red and blue emerging from below the surface of the foreground as well interspersed through the sky,” Myers says. “There is also a paradox in the blue moon itself in that it is unusually large yet radiates more light around it than it displays itself. It is about the paradox of seeing the unusual in the commonplace, as well as seeing that which is commonplace in the unusual. I find that it is a piece that challenges our perceptions but with an inviting, calming warmth.”
The Blue Moon Calls, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48 in.
In Dissolve, the sky looks like confetti. “The title for this painting comes from the feeling that I sometimes have that we humans exist in a state of being between the physical solidity of this earth, represented by the blocked in forms and colors of the fields, and the ethereal nature of the sky, represented by the particulate, confetti-like nature of the sky,” Myers reflects. “We are made up of both, equally. At some point that balance shifts. The body remains but the ethereal part of us begins to disperse and dissolve into the sky–like sugar in water.”
Dissolve, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 in.
Gallery director Clint Mansell says, “Myers doesn’t paint landscapes so much as he builds them, paring the world down to symbols: a path, a tree, a chair, a village, a horizon. Repeated and refined, these elements become a kind of visual vocabulary allowing each painting to read like a thought, measured, solitary and just slightly out of reach.” With Myers’ work, there is always something deeper to uncover.
Flow will open with a reception on June 12 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and hangs through July 6. —
Principle Gallery 208 King Street • Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 739-9326 • www.principlegallery.com
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