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Dumi Dumi Takarada, an international online solo painting and collage exhibition by Gretchen Beck opens on March 30, and will continue through April 30, 2022.
A professor of Art, and curator, Gretchen Beck's works focus on Niger, West Africa, where she lived for three years. Her art involves an exploration of the Nigerien landscape, the Djarma and Fulani cultures and the art forms they create. Her vibrantly coloured linear abstractions portrays ritual and tradition in Nigerien culture.
Color dominates the images and dictates the media employed to produce them. Drawing, painting and collage are the focus of her artistic repertoire.
Visit this unique exhibition for a journey to West Africa at https://www.exhibizone.com/dumi-dumi-takarada-exhibition
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Gretchen Beck was born in 1970 in Bronx, New York and currently lives and works in Glen Ellyn, IL, USA. Her vibrantly coloured linear abstractions are drawn from the culture and landscape of Niger in West Africa, a country that has been the focus of her work for over thirty years.
Her practice spans drawing, painting, mixed-media and collage, combining social and environmental concerns with references to the language and art forms of the Djerma (also written Zerma) and Fulani peoples of Westernmost Niger of the Niger delta. Her work is often concerned with social change and problems of desertification in Niger.
Using a palette of yellows, oranges, blues and reds and drawing with vigorous curving gestures, Beck captures the movement and rhythm of joy in the heat of the Nigerian sun.
Gretchen Beck served as Professor of Art, Chair of the Art Department, Curator and on the faculty at Concordia University, Irvine, CA, for eleven years.
https://www.gretchenbeck.com/
https://www.exhibizone.com/dumi-dumi-takarada-exhibition
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