The artist

Gregory Dunbar is a visual artist based in Washington, Connecticut. His work reimagines photography as a tactile, constructed form, using cutting and weaving to transform the photographic image into an object marked by time, labor, and material presence.

With a background in landscape architecture and environmental studies, and a practice shaped by systems, pattern, and precision, Dunbar brings an architectural sensibility to a deeply handmade process. Each work begins with an original photograph, printed twice, then meticulously cut into narrow strips and woven by hand into a single composition.

Dunbar’s practice draws from a lineage of artists who have challenged the boundaries between photography, landscape, and material. Fernando Bengoechea’s woven photographs have been an important influence on his exploration of the photographic print as a physical object. The quiet rigor and elemental horizons of Hiroshi Sugimoto, along with Andy Goldsworthy’s attention to landscape, repetition, material, and the passage of time, further inform Dunbar’s approach to seeing and making.

Rooted in the landscapes, structures, and textures of New England, the work occupies a space between image and object, order and disruption, control and intuition. Subtle misalignments, frayed edges, and shifting grids remain visible, recording the physical act of making and giving each piece its own rhythm of repetition, interruption, and balance.