Monday, December 13, 2010
Gretchen Scharnagl
Gretchen Scharnagl is an artist and art professor in Florida who explains her work as "the resemblance of patterns (and forms) of human behavior and environmental phenomena creating metaphor."
Her work has environmentalist quality. A lot of her imagery pertains nature, decay, organic patterns, and meticulous detail. Her images are beautiful and grotesque at the same time. This is a quality that I am sort of trying to incorporate my senior thesis work. Her ability to render images with such detail makes them beautiful, but all her subject matter is bittersweet. It is contemplative for the viewer. I really like this about the work because it forces the audience to really appreciate the content. Her work is not just a pretty image of nature, but a narrative about the ephemeral journey of real life.
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