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Gretchen Albrecht

B. 1942

With career that spans over fourty years, Gretchen Albrecht is quite simply one of New Zealands contemporary art masters. Born in 1942 Gretchen graduted from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in 1963. Her first solo exhibition was opened by Colin McCahon in 1965.

Albrecht has developed one of the most widely recognised personal styles in New Zealand painting. Most familiar being her colour saturated shaped canvases. She once described these works as a shape to contain a feeling. The images resonate combinations of colour and geometry; her paintings are poetic images that allude to the landscape, family, faith, literature and cosmology.

In the organic way that they unfurl and combine, the important work of Albrecht's asserts the power of abstract art and confirms the claim that less is actually more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zephyr
2011
acrylic & oil on canvas
940 x 1830mm

Zephyr (detail)




Zephyr (installation)




Pohutukawa (summertime) II
1999 - 2009
acrylic & oil on canvas
980 x 1500mm

Pohutukawa (summertime) II (detail)




Pohutukawa (summertime) II (installation)




Night Scent
1992
acrylic on canvas
900 x 1800mm

Night Scent (detail)




Night Scent (installation)




Bud Unfurling
2009
acrylic & oil on canvas
1400 x 2500mm

Bud Unfurling (detail)




Bud Unfurling (installation)




Alba in Ashes (for Andrew)
2010
acrylic & oil on Belgian linen
950 x 1600mm

Alba in Ashes (for Andrew) (detail)




Alba in Ashes (for Andrew) (installation)




Morning Rising
1972
acrylic on canvas
780 x 1450mm

Morning Rising (detail)




Morning Rising (installation)




Ash
2010
acrylic on canvas
500 x 1000 mm

Ash (detail)




Ash (installation)




Evening Sky
2010
acrylic on canvas
500 x 1000 mm

Evening Sky (detail)




Evening Sky (installation)




Marker
1999
oxidised zinc & oil paint
230 x 395mm

Marker (detail)




Marker (installation)




Earth and Air
2007
oil on patinated copper oval
230 x 390mm

Earth & Air (detail)




Earth and Air (installation)




Nocturne (nomadic geometries - Daybreak)
1992
acrylic & oil on canvas
1200 x 1900mm

Nocturne (nomadic geometries - Daybreak) (detail)




Nocturne (nomadic geometries - Daybreak) (installation view)




Woodcut I, NYC
1983
woodcut print on Japanese paper, ed. 3/10
680 x 820mm

Woodcut I, NYC (detail)




Woodcut I, NYC (installation)




Radiance (yellow measure)
2010
acrylic & oil on canvas
1050 x 1750mm

Radiance (yellow measure) (detail)




Radiance (yellow measure) (installation)




Indigo Lake
2008
acrylic on canvas
740 x 1200mm

Indigo (detail)




Indigo Lake (installation)




Study for Sweetbriar
2009
acrylic & oil on Belgian linen
950 x 1600mm

Study for Sweet Briar (detail)




Study for Sweet Briar (installation)




Poppy
2008
oil & acrylic on canvas
500 x 1000mm

Poppy (detail)




Poppy (installation)






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