Melissa Kretschmer
Melissa Kretschmer, who has shown extensively throughout Europe and the United States is known for her bold yet minimal works which straddle a space between painting and sculpture. The artist says of her work, “My paintings exist at the crossroads of the sculptural and the painterly, where the interaction of the works’ elements enables them to exist both on a plane and in a space all at once. They are as much about the inside as they are about the surface and support. Layering and the building of sculptural relief-like structures have also been two consistent elements in my work. Together, process and materials are the means by which my work is generated and develops. I do not work from sketches or preliminary diagrams but allow the work to develop on it’s own, taking cues from the materials themselves.”
Kretschmer has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for the past 25 years, including Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, France, England, Scotland, Denmark, and the United States. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in venues such as Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf and Berlin, Germany, Galerie Tschudi, Glarus and Zuoz, Switzerland, Galeria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy, Yvon Lambert, Paris, …
Melissa Kretschmer, who has shown extensively throughout Europe and the United States is known for her bold yet minimal works which straddle a space between painting and sculpture. The artist says of her work, “My paintings exist at the crossroads of the sculptural and the painterly, where the interaction of the works’ elements enables them to exist both on a plane and in a space all at once. They are as much about the inside as they are about the surface and support. Layering and the building of sculptural relief-like structures have also been two consistent elements in my work. Together, process and materials are the means by which my work is generated and develops. I do not work from sketches or preliminary diagrams but allow the work to develop on it’s own, taking cues from the materials themselves.”
Kretschmer has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for the past 25 years, including Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, France, England, Scotland, Denmark, and the United States. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in venues such as Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf and Berlin, Germany, Galerie Tschudi, Glarus and Zuoz, Switzerland, Galeria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France, ACE, Los Angeles, CA, Julian Pretto, New York, Stark Gallery, New York, Tibor de Nagy, New York, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark, Palazzo della Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy, Caledonian Hall, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Courtesy of Lesley Heller Workspace
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
FNAC, Paris, France
Alianz, Berlin, Germany
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
