Gary Breece
‘Off Route’
Untitled (Trees)
Gary Breece
2012
16″ x 20″ (Framed)
Archival Pigment Print
in walnut frame
Edition of 25
$600
Untitled (web)
Gary Breece
2012
16″ x 20″ (Framed)
Archival Pigment Print
in walnut frame
Edition of 25
$600
Biography / Public Address System
Gary Breece is a creative director and award-winning producer/director with more than 15 years of experience in marketing, campaign creative development, commercial & documentary production, as well as earned media placement and media buying. Gary began his career as a field producer at a Washington news bureau conducting interviews and producing segments for sixty-five local news stations nationwide. With an established background in news production, Gary moved to Los Angeles and launched Focus Productions, a company which produced and distributed video news releases and client-sponsored documentaries for Fortune 500 companies including Nike, McDonald’s, Campbell’s Soup, Ralston Purina and Midas. In recent years, Gary launched Public Address System, creating, producing, directing and disseminating commercials, public service announcements and long form film-based productions for cause-related and corporate social responsibility awareness campaigns. His credits now include campaigns, spots and short films for McDonald’s, Energizer, Mastercard, Whole Foods, The College Board, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Live Earth and Dow among others.
Artist Statement
Gary will be exhibiting a few photographs from his “Off Route” photography series. “Off Route” has been exhibited at Smith + Butler in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY and at ACME Art Studio where Gary maintains his studio in Wilmington.
Gary Breece‘s Off Route:
Five years ago, after experiencing numerous endings and unexpected losses, I found myself off track and at a psychic crossroads of sorts. Feeling directionless, I became drawn to, but at the same time reluctant, to revisit my Southern rural roots. I eventually decided to get a place on the coast of North Carolina and began spending bits of time there, taking rides on my ‘76 Moto Guzzi motorcycle, through the meandering back roads, allowing myself to just see what I’d see. These rides acted as a form of therapy for me. And the more I took these little journeys, the more I fell in love with the beauty of these out-of-the-way places. So I sought them out more, connecting with the landscape and locals, immersing myself in a place that I’d left years before and was now seeing with new perspective. I consider many of the color photographs from this series to be self-portraits…each image depicts landscapes or subjects that are themselves perhaps off route, just as I was during that time.