“Triple Dipped Purple Wizards”

Dauntless Indignant Geography Series2020s2025$5000-$10000

Nov 13

"Triple Dipped Purple Wizards"

by Gregory J. Rose
2025, Mixed Media On Panel, 36“x48”

A large-scale abstract composition built from saturated fields of black, blue, and purple, layered with directional marks, fractured grids, and charged linear pathways. Exhibited in the Dauntless Indignant Geography Solo Exhibition at NE SCULPTURE | Gallery Factory. Unframed. Certificate of Authenticity included.

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Collector Snapshot

Triple Dipped Purple Wizards functions as a visual koan rooted in memory, motion, and ignition. Inspired by the question, “Does your mind quiet as loud as a hummingbird’s flight or as soft as a thunderstorm?”, the work operates as an initiation point within the Dauntless Indignant Geography Series. It marks the moment where movement, sound, and psychic velocity converge into a mapped terrain of liberation.

As the largest work in the series, this piece expands Gregory’s language of internal geography into a fully immersive field. The painting draws from lived experience, street memory, and the embodied intelligence of motion, translating them into a dense abstract map where energy is reclaimed through speed, risk, and release. For collectors, Triple Dipped Purple Wizards stands as a defining, exhibited work that anchors the DIG series both conceptually and physically.

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High Growth
This work demonstrates strong growth indicators through its exhibition provenance, its alignment with a pivotal moment in Gregory’s development, and its position within a cohesive series with limited availability and increasing collector interest.
One of One Original
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Retail Price: $8,000
Unframed
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Available Until Sold
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Signature Masterwork Tier
The strength of the series’ exhibition visibility, paired with the depth of structural language present in this work, positions it as a defining example of Gregory’s mature mixed media practice.

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Artwork Details

Inspired by the Koan:

“Does your mind quiet as loud as a hummingbird’s flight or as soft as a thunderstorm”?

Poem written by the artist:

Black, blue and purple was his skin. Skin tape could be the name of his punk band. With the voice and sound of the Stooges. He has begun to articulate a visual map of the “streets”.

That place where the air would bend and rip—in the wind as we sat on the porch of that white house, on the edge of Wilson and Easton, Pennsylvania.

We were outside on the porch, because the eyes on the faces among plastered the living room walls documenting the history of twin cheerleaders.

As Fantasia played on the VCR and the brooms left the TV and steamboat Willy—in color—began to circle the room and the eyes continued to twirl.

Off the faces and out of the picture frames while—
The heat from the cigarette filled living room made for a new age introduction to HR Puffin and Stuff.

So, he found himself in the backyard, sun beating on his neck as he watched the visual trails left by the line of ants crossing in front of his face—

Which he had lying on the cold sidewalk. After some time, he needed to move,
and he needed to peep out the neighborhood.

As mentioned, the air was splitting as the cars passed each other in opposing lanes of traffic. The traffic in his mind needed new stimulus to make it to the precipice of true freedom in his mind. Allowing the forces of the universe to merge with his out-of-control imagination focused on mental liberation. His hesitation was warranted as he left the backyard gate, and the at the next home on the block with a blue siding matching the blue gate. The neighbor cut off a chicken’s head and he kept on slipping and sliding.

Partners in crime—we all skipped school to climb the heights of hood escape that day.

They all thought he was lost around the block, but he just needed an escape from the frozen mentality. See his mind already left his hometown of Easton

and was making music with Sun-Ra in space.

Triple Dipped Purple Wizards was the match that lit the inferno. He has scorched streets and sidewalks with front and backside power slides since before he was 9.

Grinding curbs and testing his mind. Fighting skinheads and preppies losing their mind because the sweet black kid could ride. And he rode off into the cold embrace of the world.

Searching for the city

Full Description

Triple Dipped Purple Wizards presents a dense, atmospheric field of layered pigment and signal-like marks dominated by deep blacks, electric blues, and saturated purples. Directional lines and fractured grid structures move across the surface with urgency, suggesting velocity, impact, and rerouted paths. The surface reveals accumulated revisions, with translucent layers exposing earlier gestures beneath, reinforcing the sense of lived motion rather than fixed destination.

The composition reads as a scorched map of movement through streets, sidewalks, and internal thresholds. Energy compresses and releases across the panel, mirroring the rhythm of skating, escape, and mental flight. Scale amplifies the experience, allowing the viewer to enter the terrain rather than observe it from a distance. The work holds tension between control and abandon, mapping freedom as something earned through friction and risk.

Authentication

Certificate of Authenticity included
Digital documentation provided
Hidden signature within the composition
Artist signature on the back

Provenance

Dauntless Indignant Geography Solo Exhibition

This artwork was featured in Gregory’s 2025 solo exhibition at NE SCULPTURE | Gallery Factory. The exhibition explored internal geographies and the reconstruction of personal terrain through mixed media abstraction. After the show concluded, the artwork returned to the artist’s studio collection and has remained in his care.

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Market Relevance

The Dauntless Indignant Geography Series represents a culturally and conceptually significant phase in Gregory’s practice, where Blackness, Zen inquiry, abstraction, and lived geography intersect. Triple Dipped Purple Wizards, as the scale anchor of the series, holds particular relevance for collectors seeking contemporary abstraction rooted in embodied experience, movement, and memory, reinforced by the visibility of a solo exhibition context.

Comparable Sales

Comparable sales data is currently being compiled. Pricing is based on Gregory’s established retail structure for mixed media works and documented exhibition history.

Artist Market Position

Gregory is an established regional artist with national reach, with works held in private, public, and academic collections. His continued exhibition activity, expanding catalog, and growing licensing partnerships reinforce collector confidence. Exhibited works such as Triple Dipped Purple Wizards represent the most current evolution of his practice and hold strong relevance for long-term collectors of contemporary abstraction.

Price Growth of Mixed Media Works (2018–2025)

“Triple Dipped Purple Wizards operates as the ignition point of the Dauntless Indignant Geography Series.

Rooted in speed, sound, and survival, the work transforms memory into motion and motion into map. Through layered saturation, fractured structure, and charged pathways, the painting asks where power is located before and after the fire, and what remains once movement becomes freedom rather than escape.”

— Curatorial Commentary

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