About
Greta resides in St. Louis Missouri, USA where she was raised and had access to free art, history and science museums as well as many local libraries which helped shape her love of art and the mysteries of the natural world. She began sewing as a child and quickly moved on to all forms of handwork and painting. She received a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1999.
Artist Statement
I consistently work in the theme of florals, conventionally correlated to beauty, as a shield for disorder. Flowers provide comfort yet they are fragile and temporary like our own bodies and act as buoys amid representations of neurological disorder. Multiple layers of building up achieve surfaces representing the process of discovering, excising, and healing the wounds that come with episodes of illness while color blankets and hides its grip. Like the life cycle of handwork, these paintings depict the recurrent process of illness, adaptation, and healing as it flares, fades, frays, thins with time, and repairs itself to continue its existence. Mental illness forms the body of the work and becomes a hopeful representation of the ebb and flow of suffering mixed with the electric and at times obsessive creative process.
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