Irina
Schrecker
The Rainmaker
photo collage on linen, colored with pastel chalks, 62" x
22", $2,000 |
Irina
Schrecker
ENTRANCE GALLERY
Irina Schrecker’s pieces spring from the union of photography,
collage and pastel painting. "The coloration with pastel chalks
is a balancing act between photography and painting," says
the German-born Schrecker. "It succeeds because the photo remains
the dominant element… the ‘idea’ as the central
thread stretches across the entire picture." She sees this
process as a natural outgrowth of her work as a journalist –
she studied journalism at the School of Leipzig before studying
photography there with Jean Michel Cavalli – where the "idea"
represents the "soul" of an article. The result is unique.
Reviewing a Schrecker exhibit in 2001, Berlin columnist Hans Heiner
Reichelt wrote, "I know New York’s finest art galleries
and marveled before Miro’s masterpieces in Mallorca. But what
I see here is matchless, a feast for the eyes! These works are picture-collages,
mirrored worlds. Irina has raised pictures to a new life." |
