Ginny Krueger: Reverie
@ McHenry County College | Epping Gallery
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
On view through Friday, September 13th
McHenry County College is thrilled to host Ginny Krueger’s solo exhibition, Reverie.
August 5 – September 13, 2024
McHenry County College | Epping Gallery
8900 U.S. Highway 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012
Free and open to the public
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ARTIST STATEMENT
In the summer of 2023, Ginny Krueger was immersed in the culture of the coastal southeastern region of Spain, Catalunya. The essence of this warm, welcoming place was hers to capture at a professional printmaking studio called Art Print Residence.
Within the primacy of Ginny’s arrival, the sun rays on the sea, the sand hills (Arenys de Munt), and the silhouetted, Mediterranean pine trees made their immutable impact.
Found in the sun-drenched works displayed here are flowers and fruit, witnessed at the markets, on the hillsides, and spiking from the Sagrada Familia spires. Simple, colorful wedges stand in for the ornate Gothic architecture. And surprisingly, somewhat auspiciously, a band of geese migrated into this body of work as a sign of zest and levity.
Reverie is a collection of abstractions, realized amidst the expansiveness of novelty and wanderings in Catalunya. It is a saturation of fruitful experiences and, at the same time, a fanciful daydream.
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BIO
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, Greece, Iceland, and Spain.
While on residency, Ginny is fortunate to immerse herself in a new land, culture, people, and language. She finds it challenging and exhilarating to experience all of this, which inevitably yields expansiveness and the forging of a novel visual language.
Wherever she is, the earth and its bounty have a claim on her. Ginny is driven to make art that is elemental and evocative, where each print is a medley, a gleaning of observation and feeling in response to traversing about.
For more information about the artist, visit www.ginnykrueger.com.
IMAGE CREDIT: Ginny Krueger, Arenys de Munt: Gander, 2023, Collagraph monoprint
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