“Nature has always played an important role in Gretchen Albrecht’s oeuvre… Whether it be a tangled garden or the distant horizon of a glorious West Coast sunset, the truth of the landscape as observed is captured and provided with a new modernist framework within which to view it…
Albrecht’s painting is almost always based on an empirical observation, it is this that defines it and gives it its edge. It helps define an approach to abstraction that is not formalist or formulaic, an abstraction that is inclusive of the viewer rather than exclusive”.
James Ross
The perpetually imaginative and consummately executed works Gretchen Albrecht has produced over the last four decades have firmly established her reputation as one of this country’s most outstanding abstract painters.
Whether one chooses to read her works as abstracted metaphors or bursting flower buds, the lyrical applications of luscious pigments in Albrecht’s paintings visually intoxicate the viewer.