CB to the Sea
Watercolor on Paper
30" x 22.5"

CB to the Sea

Watercolor on Paper
30" x 22.5"

Garden Gate
Watercolor on Paper
30" x 22.5"

Garden Gate

Watercolor on Paper
30" x 22.5"

My Little Angel
Watercolor on Paper
30" x 22.5"

My Little Angel

Watercolor on Paper
30" x 22.5"

MT. Beckwith
Watercolor on Paper
30" x 22.5"

MT. Beckwith

Watercolor on Paper
30" x 22.5"

Krys Gieskieng

Contemporary Perspectives
January 30 - February 19, 2009

Reception: Thursday February 5, 2009 6-8 PM

Press Release

Transparent watercolorist Krys Gieskieng portrays scenes of her native Colorado and from around the world in a magical hyperrealism, with every hue, line and edge leaping from the paper’s surface. Familiar scenes from the American West or famous European sites are transformed by an aesthetic that nearly reconciles photorealism and post-impressionism. Everything is slightly more than real, bricks are somehow redder than normal, shadows are sharper than usual, objects’ textures are more three-dimensional than they appear in person.

Gieskieng, a fifth generation Coloradoan, portrays everyday moments with the immersive, minute attention of an ethnographer profoundly attached to her subjects. Layering transparent watercolor paints, she achieves an uncanny intensity of color that gives images a light, ebullient energy. Not only are these scenes strangely familiar, but their level of detail and the attractions of their style invites viewers to enter their compelling geometries. Krys Gieskieng presents our world with renewed vigor and an acute sensibility to light, surface and tone. Her places are familiar and new, comfortable yet exciting.

Invitation to the exhibition | View the catalog page

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