Greg Mason Burns

I create art that makes you feel and think. My art is a dialogue between my intellectual and aesthetic approach and your interpretation; however, you may want to do that. The goal is to get you to feel what you are seeing, and for that feeling to continue into your home.

My work is diverse and includes, among others: abstract, contemporary, landscape, portrait, color field, minimalism, photography, and reductive art. Some of these styles blend together, while others stand alone. I am inspired by the moment, and maintain a freedom to create what needs to be created, using whichever medium and technique is most appropriate such as: oil, watercolor, charcoal, oil pastel, photography, acrylic, collage, murals, or videography, etc.

What is art to you? What drives you to like art? Come in and discover what conversations we can have together. 

No matter what your approach to art is, you can browse colors and textures or go deeper and explore specific projects like Reception Theory, where I create inside the gap that exists between what is said and what is understood.

Likewise, you might also enjoy two of my other projects:

Art is to be discovered here. Welcome.

Greg Mason Burns
Greg Mason Burns in his studio

Portfolio Highlights

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Painting of sailboats on the Charles River in Boston

Art in Giving

I was recently accepted into a different kind of gallery called Art in Giving. It is an art gallery associated with the non-profit The Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3) that has donated over $1.4m over the years to pediatric cancer research centers all over the US. Half of the sales of the work goes directly toward grants that the foundation offers to these research centers. Considering that I used to work for Children’s Hospital Boston before I became an artist, I feel that this relationship has come full circle for me. This new venture stemmed from the

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Public Art in Brookline, MA

Harvard Ave Utility Box

Getting the commission of this Harvard Ave Utility Box was a great success for me. It is my first public art commission since moving to Boston. I’ve already done four murals in Maine (here and here), but I was hoping to get more opportunities in Boston. This is especially true since I live in Allston, which people know for street art. That turned out to be difficult at first. Yes, there are more opportunities and certainly one doesn’t have to convince people as much on the value of public art because it is a part of the landscape here. There

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Public Art Commission Kennebec Valley Community College

Behind the Art: Stained-Glass Paintings

The above image of one of my stained-glass paintings is a zoom-in photo of a larger mural that I did for the Kennebec Valley Community College Whitney Wing in 2023. This was the first big break I got from developing this style of painting. Well, actually, it was the second break, but it was the first big one where I actually made some money off my time and materials. The Beginning I wanted to create abstract landscape paintings, and I was already pretty good at abstract overall. My work ebbed and flowed between representative, landscape, and abstract, but I leaned

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