Gretchen Minnhaar, Argentina

Gretchen Minnhaar (Argentina) paints with a figurative style incorporating her architectural expertise, interest in perspective and human interaction. She portrays tables, and people interacting around them, evolved from the grouping at the Last Supper, by DaVinci. Privileged, empowered people sit around the large tables, deliberating the fate of humanity. Argentina’s former military ruler, and other Latin American despots also inspired these works.

In these oil paintings perspective emphasizes the different points of view: are these people viewed frontally, from above, close or maybe far? Occasionally, the table is empty, in anticipation of the occupants, with the size and shape of the room alluding to the event to come. Tilted planes, exaggerated vanishing points, and dark corners coexisting with light create the dreamlike environment.