“ The paintings by Gregory McIntosh are romantic expressionistic images. His work teeters between abstract and figurative forms generating atmospheres reminiscent of the field paintings that were popular in the 60's. They harbor anthropomorphic shapes lurking in swirling pools of color that simultaneously imply something ominous, co-existing with a love of paint and process.
Literal narratives make way for psychological introspection when sinuous clouds mystify faceless figures. This premier exhibition is competent and accessible, and an opportunity to view some very unusual paintings of a well-known artist. ”
Bill Anderson, Art Critic
Santa Barbara News Review
“ Gregory McIntosh uses color most emphatically, almost dispensing with landscape topography altogether. His chosen medium is pastel and gouache over monotypes, which form the base over which McIntosh draws atmospheric drama. He is a colorist of rare sensibility. It is not fruitful to try to determine the exact identification of his cloud/fog/light formations; they are ethereal reminders of what we take them for. Glimpses of what might be the moon or stars cast light on glimpses of appearing and disappearing land. He treats the figure in the same way, presenting broad suggestive clues as a human form. The spiritual content of his work is inescapable. It refuses to give the viewer specific sites and therefore draws one to contemplate the evanescence of the earth.
McIntosh is interested in the borderline between the solid and the spiritual. He does it with exceptionally delicate colors, and leaves the world behind in atmospheric flights of the spirit. ”
Beate Bermann-Enn, Art Critic
Art Scene / California
“ A small work in gouache by Gregory McIntosh is replete with moors and magic. In "Moon over Scotland” a tiny white orb floats over a ghostly landscape. This tiny talisman looks as if it would be the ideal backdrop for a coven of witches to convene. ”
Maxine Olderman, Art Critic
Art Review / New Haven Register
Guilford, Connecticut
“ Reminiscent of Francis Bacon's disturbing imagery, "Prophets of Doom" by Gregory McIntosh is a piece that alludes to the “ominous lurking of the dark side” of our society. ‘Naysayers, Pharisees...are ever present in any millennium; man's inhumanity to his fellow man, the pointing of fingers, the fixing of blame,' author said of his tormented faces floating in darkness. ”
Kirby Fairfax, Art Critic
Eye on the Arts / The Reporter