{"id":8963,"date":"2021-01-24T18:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T23:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=8963"},"modified":"2021-01-24T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T23:59:15","slug":"gretchen-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/gretchen-beck","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"696\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Takarada.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8964\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Takarada.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Takarada-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Takarada-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Takarada-210x209.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em>Takarada<\/em><br>12&#8243;x12&#8243;; collage; 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gretchen Beck<br>Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the images I produce as an artist, I have conducted research in Niger, West Africa, where I lived for three years. My art involves an exploration of the Nigerien landscape, the Djarma and Fulani cultures and the art forms they create. This abstract work portrays ritual and tradition in Nigerien culture.<br><br>To create my imagery, I work from a variety of references. Relationships among color, shape and texture come together to form fluid and grid-like compositions. Color dominates the images and dictates the media employed to produce them. Drawing, painting and collage are the focus of my artistic repertoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gretchen Beck served as Professor of Art, Chair of the Art Department, Curator and on the faculty at Concordia University in Irvine, California, for eleven years. Currently, she is a professional artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:gretchenjo.beck@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">click to email<\/a>]<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gretchenbeck.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.gretchenbeck.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"707\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Taku.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8965\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Taku.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Taku-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Taku-210x212.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em>Taku<\/em><br>12&#8243;x12&#8243;; collage; 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"890\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-habu-nya.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8966\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-habu-nya.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-habu-nya-236x300.jpg 236w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-habu-nya-210x267.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em>Habu-nya<\/em><br>18&#8243;x12&#8243;; collage; 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Ellyn, Illinois<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[142],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gretchen-beck-Takarada.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BNTD-2kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}