May 9 film screening and discussion with Director Evan Goodchild—exclusively at the Vero Beach Museum of Art.
VERO BEACH, FLA.- After four years of research and production, the award-winning film The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie arrives as the first feature-length documentary examining the life and art of Gregory Gillespie (1936–2000), the extraordinary late-20th-century painter and iconoclast. The film screening and discussion take place at the Vero Beach Museum of Art (VBMA) on Saturday, May 9, 2026, from 2 to 4 p.m., as part of the Museum’s Second Saturday free-admission program.
Gillespie, who had his first solo show in 1966, became known for meticulously painted figurative paintings, landscapes, and self-portraits. Many of his early works were made by painting over photographs cut from newspapers or magazines, transforming the scenes through photographic collage, and adding imaginary elements. In his later work, Gillespie created hyper-realistic imagery, focusing on a looser, more expressive style. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum, among others…