THE TRANSCENDENTAL GARDEN
Slemmons Gallery
January 24, 2025 – March 14, 2025
Since childhood, the flora of the natural world has delighted Ginny Krueger, and this serves as a springboard for her Transcendental Garden exhibit. The forms, color, and textures propose an invented world, and the physicality of materials lends to a multi-dimensional experience that engage the senses, while evoking the multifaceted layers of life.
Krueger’s works are partially or entirely created using the encaustic medium – wax, resin, and pigment in a molten form, applied to wood and further cured through fire. Working with fire is alchemical, fugitive, mesmerizing, and unpredictable, which Krueger views as a moment-by-moment adventure and a process that is infinite in fluidity and possibility. Her works are also treasure troves of fabric, ceramic, paper and other materials. With the encaustic medium serving as the grip, Krueger arranges the materials into fanciful amalgams, or unlikely gardens that that depart from the expected, and convey something entirely new in depth and complexity.
The earth and its bounty have claim on Krueger. She is driven to make art that is elemental and evocative, where each painting is a medley, a melded place, where both the gritty and sublime combine. Each offering in the exhibit is an invitation into a transcendental world of beauty, whimsy, and mystery.
RSVP for the opening reception on Friday, January 24, from 6pm to 9pm:
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
THE TRANSCENDENTAL GARDEN
Slemmons Gallery
January 24, 2025 – March 14, 2025
Since childhood, the flora of the natural world has delighted Ginny Krueger, and this serves as a springboard for her Transcendental Garden exhibit. The forms, color, and textures propose an invented world, and the physicality of materials lends to a multi-dimensional experience that engage the senses, while evoking the multifaceted layers of life.
Krueger’s works are partially or entirely created using the encaustic medium – wax, resin, and pigment in a molten form, applied to wood and further cured through fire. Working with fire is alchemical, fugitive, mesmerizing, and unpredictable, which Krueger views as a moment-by-moment adventure and a process that is infinite in fluidity and possibility. Her works are also treasure troves of fabric, ceramic, paper and other materials. With the encaustic medium serving as the grip, Krueger arranges the materials into fanciful amalgams, or unlikely gardens that that depart from the expected, and convey something entirely new in depth and complexity.
The earth and its bounty have claim on Krueger. She is driven to make art that is elemental and evocative, where each painting is a medley, a melded place, where both the gritty and sublime combine. Each offering in the exhibit is an invitation into a transcendental world of beauty, whimsy, and mystery.
RSVP for the opening reception on Friday, January 24, from 6pm to 9pm:
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
Ginny Krueger is an abstract painter who derives inspiration from the land, and the beauty, complexity and interconnectivity of the natural world. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Northern Illinois University in 1995. She has received the Illinois Arts Council fellowship grant and has been awarded numerous artist residencies—in Canada, Mexico, Scotland, Spain, Greece, and Iceland.
Ginny Krueger is an abstract painter who derives inspiration from the land, and the beauty, complexity and interconnectivity of the natural world. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Northern Illinois University in 1995. She has received the Illinois Arts Council fellowship grant and has been awarded numerous artist residencies—in Canada, Mexico, Scotland, Spain, Greece, and Iceland.
