Gretel Stephens

Gretel Stephens

CIRCA's Latest Online Exhibition Hosted on Artsy.net

CIRCA Gallery presents a selection of oil on linen paintings by Gretel Stephens, (b. 1935) a well-established L.A.-based minimalist. The artist feature is on view at CIRCA’s page on Artsy.net from April 13 through June 1, 2019.

From the origins of the painting process, Gretel Stephens’ minimal, meditative paintings are grounded in a careful consideration of subtlety. Utilizing a raw linen surface, and often leaving glimpses of it bare in the finished work, Stephens works in sheer layers to arrive at a place of ethereal abstraction that appears as if lit from within.

Her compositions find a nuanced harmony relating to edges: the intersection of the edges of forms within the painting, as well as the relationship of the painting to the limits of its support. Sourcing quiet imagery of some cosmic origin, these abstract pieces push and pull between careful, deliberate, details and large color fields.


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