Gretchen Scherer “Once I Had This Dream”
ART 3
[Image: Gretchen Scherer "The Great Hall" (2017) Oil on panel, 18h x 24w in.]
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The exhibition at ART 3 features 8 oil paintings Scherer meticulously rendered by manipulating classical architecture. Scherer’s exquisite “interior landscapes” are window into the imaginary. Dreamlike rooms unfold and multiply endlessly, revealing a deeper sens of our sub-conscious. As Carl Jung mentioned in his book Man and HIs Symbols, referring to the winding pattern found in illuminated manuscripts: “Individual dreams seem as strange and fragmented…; but over a lifetime’s dreaming, a meandering pattern appears, revealing the process of psychic growth”.
Scherer’s fictional interiors depart from their original sources of inspiration to become imaginary spaces of possibility - much like the Capriccios of 18th century Italian art. Scherer’s paintings are about the blending of interior spaces that exist, withe run the past or inout minds.
Gretchen Scherer received a BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and graduated with an MFA from Hunter College in 2006. Her work has been included in group shows in New York, Chicago, Rome and LA, as well as a two- person show in Oldenburg, Germany in the summer of 2015. Gretchen is represented by ART 3, Bushwick. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
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Schedule
from May 24, 2017 to June 25, 2017
Opening Reception on 2017-05-24 from 18:00 to 21:00