Gretchen Koch
Koch’s oil paintings frequently inflect her photographic images
with texture, color and brush strokes she could not realize in one medium
alone. They are a way of processing her
emotions; capturing a color and ferocity felt in her soul and realized on her canvas. Koch’s use of paint to manipulate, personalize, minimize and exaggerate
her subject matter, leaves the viewer enveloped in a secondary experience, that
of the image and that of Koch’s interpretation.(Diana Carey curator)
BFA Cleveland Institute of Art. Major in Photography.
Awards and exhibition history Ohio and California.
"I paint to process and release the emotions I feel. To manifest in color and texture my personal interpretations of life". Gretchen Koch
Your Wave oil 20x24"
Artist Reception
Friday, July 8, 6-9pm
The Gallery at The Brooks
217 N. Coast Hwy 101
Oceanside, CA
