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Showcasing Gretchen Adreon

"The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us." Wallace Stevens from Ninth Street Women

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Showcasing Gretchen Adreon

"The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us." Wallace Stevens from Ninth Street Women

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About Me

Artist Statement

The inner self reveals what our fundamental character is and who we are. Abstract art allows me to express myself without realism interpreting my thoughts. All artists creating subjective or abstract art combine the same elements of design and composition and hopefully emotional content that must function simultaneously for the work to come together and have balance and unity. I work with those design elements and my own feelings moving back and forth from subconscious expression and conscious compositional awareness. My hope is that once complete, I can leave an open space. a space of freedom and the viewer will be able to add their own feelings and connect with the piece to complete the process.

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Short Bio

Artist Statement

I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. My early creative memories are of my father who was a sign painter, sign muralist who climbed some of the tallest buildings in Chicago to paint detailed and often life like large billboard signs all over the city. Sundays our family in our white station wagon, would take drives in the city a

The walls in our house were his canvas, always changing and sometimes when we got home from school, everything was completely different. I credit him for my creative aspirations as I got older.

Following High School graduation, I attended a Chicago city university where one of my classes was at the Art Institute. Now in retrospect that seems like a turning point.

I did not study or continue after that year, I married and began raising a family. We moved from Chicago to San Diego for my husbands work and then to Nashville when he was transferred. When my children were in school and my time became a little more flexible, I returned to college and went to art school and then to a university. I also began a 4 year study with renowned artist, Anton Weiss. He changed almost all the ideas I held about what it meant or took to become a true artist. His teaching and always blunt and critical but founded criticism and guidance helped me to know hard work and perseverance could pay off. The study of Philosophy gave me a unique insight to always question and think critically (most of the time.) Photography taught me how to really see...

My children were influential, supportive and encouraging even through challenging times.

Following a divorce, I moved on my own to NYC and there I spent 12 years working lots of different jobs, struggling, sometimes selling work, sometimes renting my work to designers and entered and took part in lots of solo and group exhibitions in the city. I learned many hard lessons, had so many amazing experiences and met so many unusual and amazing people. I (as well as others) often questioned my sanity, but I gained a sense of self approval and survival I had never experienced. These experiences along the way became and continue to be a strong force in my work.

Presently, I have returned and live in Nashville where several members of my family live. I continue to pursue my path which carves itself out daily. I am so grateful for all those who have supported and continue to support me.

Life takes many twists and turns, some joyful and some tragic, but the will down deep to keep going forward makes all the difference. I have always painted from the deepest part of myself, it seems like the only honest way for me.

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Medium and Tools

Artist Statement

Medium and Tools

I work primarily with watercolor and acrylic paints. I love the fluidity of watercolor and sometimes the surprise effects and my process is fairly non traditional. Acrylic paint gives me the ability to achieve textural qualities. Sometimes I also use plaster for added texture. My implements range from traditional brushes to many kinds of scrapers, palette knives sanders,even a grinder and anything else I find that interests me. Canvas, wood and paper, sometimes sheet metal are my paint surfaces so far. ,

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Exhibitions, Awards

EDUCATION

Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, Nashville, TN

Middle Tennessee State University, Majors of Philosophy and Photography Murfreesboro, TN

Private 4 year study with Master Artist Anton Weiss, Fairview, TN

AWARDS

1997 Capital Engraving Award. Tennessee All State, Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN

1996 Patrons Award,Tennessee All State, Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN

1996 Mary Britton Lynch Award, Hunter Museum of American Art,Chattanooga, TN

GRANTS

2012 Art Fellowship Organization Grant, New York City

2012 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, New York City

SOLO SHOWS

2018 Murfreesboro City Hall Rotunda,Murfreesboro, TN

2018 Tomato Head, West Knoxville, TN

2017 Tomato Head, Market Square Knoxville, TN

2013 Beal Bocht Cafe, Riverdale NY

2008 Central Park West, The Majestic NYC

2008 Waverly Place Penthouse, NYC

2005 The Next Perspective, Jade Nectar Gallery, Cooper Union East Village, NYC

SELECT GROUP SHOWS AND COLLABORATIVES

2016 Detroit Biennale Juried Show, Museum of New Art (MONA), Armada, MI

2016 Art Crawl, Franklin, TN

2015 Art Crawl, Murfreesboro,TN

2014 East County Board of Realtors, Ralph Turturro and Gretchen Adreon, Bergen Co.,NJ

2014 New and Now II, Bergen Performing Arts Center, Englewood, NJ

2014 Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC

2013 American Heart Association, NYC Young Professionals Red Ball ,Silent Auction

2012 New and Now I, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Flyway Gallery, NJ

2010 Hanna Studio Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ

2006 This Urgent Moment Juried Show, Soho, NYC

2006 Loop Lounge Underground Art Show, Passaic NJ

2006 Dark Arts Festival, Covenant Skyscraper tour, Brooklyn, NY

2006 Fresh Air Landscapes and Florals, Jade Nectar Gallery, Southampton LI, NY

2006 Gretchen Adreon and Al Torres, Jade Nectar Gallery, Southampton LI, NY

2000 New Britain Annual Juried Show, New Britain Museum of American Art,New Britain, CT

1999 Murfreesboro City Hall Rotunda, Murfreesboro, TN

1998 36th Annual Tennessee All State Juried Exhibition, Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN

1998 Tom Earthman Antiques and Art Gallery, Nashville, TN

1998 The Mardi Gras Show, James Ben Gallery, Franklin, TN

1997 35th Annual Tennessee All State Juried Exhibition, Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN

1996 TWS 25th Juried Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

1996 34th Annual Tennessee All State Juried Exhibition, Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN

1996 The Eleven Eclectic, Womens Vision Art Gallery, Nashville, TN

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Showcasing Gretchen Adreon

Showcasing Gretchen Adreon

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