Gabriel Krekk

Artist Gabriel Krekk's light-drenched photorealist watercolors belie the notion that contemporary painting must fall within an expressionist tradition. Instead, Krekk's work in photorealism reveals that an unmediated objective image is impossible; his skill lies in embracing that sobering truth while also allowing his humanism to come through.

To paint a "mundane" object in the photorealist style is to see the object anew in ways not even possible through the original medium of photography. Krekk also brilliantly appropriates photography's imperfections--the globes of light which appear on a lens, and the unfocused backgrounds--and transfers them to the canvas, thereby raising philosophical and aesthetic questions about the intervention of technology (and the artist) in the creation of truth and beauty. Look at these works for both the visual pleasure and the humor, for Gabriel Krekk's stunning watercolors please the eye and stimulate the mind, while being benignly and ironically subversive to the status quo

Beyond Borders: Exhibition of Fine Art from Canada
Reception: Thursday October 4, 2007 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates: 9/28/2007 - 10/18/2007

Invitation to Gabriel Krekk's exhibition

The Hatmaker - A Dying Breed Watercolor on Paper 30" x 24" $3200 The Hatmaker - A Dying Breed Watercolor on Paper 30" x 24" $3200	Wait and Sea Watercolor on Paper 26" x 21" $5000 Wait and Sea Watercolor on Paper 26" x 21" $5000
Where Dreams Begin Watercolor on Paper 27" x 20" $2300 Where Dreams Begin Watercolor on Paper 27" x 20" $2300	I, Pod Watercolor on Paper 26" x 21" $1600 I, Pod Watercolor on Paper 26" x 21" $1600
The Sentinel Watercolor on Paper 26" x 21" $1600 The Sentinel Watercolor on Paper 26" x 21" $1600	Harlequin Unbridled Watercolor on Paper 29" x 23" $5000 Harlequin Unbridled Watercolor on Paper 29" x 23" $5000