Gretchen’s approach to her work reflects the spirit in which she’s led her life. “When I started my ‘formal’ studies in the fine arts,” she says, “my goal was that when I graduated I would be able to paint what ever I wanted, in any style or technique. That I managed to accomplish. As for the question ‘What do I paint?’ I assume it will take a lifetime to know the answer.
As of now, I would say that my artwork reflects a journey. Sometimes I express this literally and other times in symbolic materials or abstract suggestions. Often on this journey I return to familiar places that have changed and evolved with time. Yet they are still the same familiar places. Other times I am exploring new and uncharted territory.
Along the way I always remind myself, the journey is not where you are going, it is how you get there.”
napa valley life, spring 2008, michelle willams, acnv
2005 San Francisco Art Institute, BFA Painting
2002-03 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark
2000 -05 La Cipressaia, Montangana, Italy, residency
2001-02 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1999 Scuola Lorenzo di Medici, Florence, Italy.
1997,1994 Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
1994,1993 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2005 McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
2004 Spring Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute
2004 Berliner Kunst Projekt, Berlin, Germany
2003 Galleria UMO, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2003 Q Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 Small Artworks, Florence, Italy
2002 Generations Gallery, Yountville, CA
2002 Johnson's Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 SMFA, Student Annual, Boston, MA
2000 St George Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 Signorello Vineyards, Napa, CA
1998 Galleria UMO,San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1997 Galleria La Mancha, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1994 Dharma Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
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