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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 Albretch's asserts the power of abstract art and confirms the claim that less is actually more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lake (arabesque)
2007
Acrylic and oil on canvas
980 x 1500

Night Light
2007
Silver foil collage, gouache on oval hand-formed paper, in oval wooden frame
435 x 560mm

Red Music
2005
Acrylic on canvas oval
730 x 1200mm

Red Signal, Jade Ocean
1996
Gouache on oval hand-formed paper, in oval wooden frame
Framed size 435 x 560mm

SMALL RADIANCE SUMMER
1983
Acrylic on canvas hemisphere
900 x 1800mm

SMALL STUDY FOR AOTEAROA ˆ CLOUD (2)
2002
Acrylic on canvas hemisphere
500 x 1000mm

STUDY NO. 6 (red/violet)
1992
Acrylic on canvas hemisphere
500 x 1000mm

Aria
2008
Acrylic on canvas
1200 x 730mm

Rose Garden - Complicata
2008
Acrylic on canvas
1200 x

Aria
2008
Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
1200 x 730mm



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