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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poppy
2008
oil & acrylic on canvas
500 x 1000mm

Poppy (detail)




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

Nocturne (nomadic geometries - Daybreak) (detail)




Nocturne (nomadic geometries - Daybreak) (installation view)




Fissure
1988
collage on paper
1220 x 800mm

Fissure (detail)




Morning Rising
1972
acrylic on canvas
780 x 1450mm

Spring Rising
1972
acrylic on canvas
1455 x 820mm

Red Cloud Over Lagoon
1976
acrylic on canvas
1690 x 1770mm

Study No. 6 (red/violet)
1992
acrylic on canvas hemisphere
500 x 1000mm

Indigo Lake
2008
acrylic on canvas
740 x 1200mm

Red Signal, Jade Ocean
1996
gouache on oval hand-formed paper, in oval wooden frame
435 x 560mm (framed)

Rose Garden (Sweetbriar)
2009
acrylic & oil on Belgian linen
1200 x 2400mm

Rosery
2009
oil & acrylic on canvas
1200 x 2400mm

Noisette - study
2010
acrylic & oil on canvas
740 x 1180 mm

Marker
1999
oxidised zinc & oil paint
230 x 395mm

Marker (detail)




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

Earth and Air (installation)






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