The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie

Director Evan Goodchild discovers that an artist committed suicide in the converted art studio in Western Massachusetts where he lived for three years. Investigation reveals the artist was Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000), an American master of surreal, haunting paintings and sculptures held in collections like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney, and the Hirshhorn in Washington D.C. Through unseen archival footage, interviews with artists, family, and art world insiders, and immersive photography, Goodchild traces Gillespie's escape from an insular New Jersey upbringing to studies in New York and Italy, emerging as one of the most celebrated, coveted, and disturbing painters of the 1970s and beyond.