Together | Alone

Kristie Bretzke

January 24 - February 28, 2015

Kristie Bretzke

Kristie Bretzke "The Hudson No. 1"
2014 | oil on panel | $900.00
image: 12 x 9" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "The Hudson No. 2"
2014 | oil on panel | SOLD
image: 12 x 9" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "Sink, Marnay Sur Seine"
2014 | oil on panel | SOLD
image: 24 x 18" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "Noepoli Apartment"
2012 | oil on linen | $900.00
image: 12 x 10" | frame: 12.5 x 10.5"

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Kristie Bretzke "Portrait with Headband"
2012 | oil on linen | $900.00
image: 14 x 11" | frame: 15 x 12"

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Kristie Bretzke "Pi Triptych"
2014 | oil on panel | $2,800.00
image: 12 x 30" | frame: 13 x 31"

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Kristie Bretzke "Noepoli Apartment #2"
2014 | oil on panel | $2,000.00
image: 16 x 24" | frame: 17 x 25"

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Kristie Bretzke "Exit #2"
2014 | oil on linen | $3,000.00
image: 16 x 44" | frame: 17 x 45"

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Kristie Bretzke "510 Unmade Bed"
2015 | oil on panel | SOLD
image: 24 x 24" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "510 Elevator"
2015 | oil on panel | $1,800.00
image: 24 x 18" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "510 Lobby"
2015 | oil on panel | $1,800.00
image: 24 x 18" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "Exit #3"
2015 | oil on linen | $2,200.00
image; 30 x 30" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "David"
2014 | oil on linen | $2,200.00
image: 30 x 30" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "Noepoli Glasses"
2012 | oil on linen | $900.00
image: 12 x 10" | frame: 12.5 x 10.5"

Kristie Bretzke "Wait Your Turn"
bronze | 13 x 16 x 30" | $3,200.00

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Kristie Bretzke "Red's Chair"
2015 | oil on panel | $1,800.00
image: 24 x 18" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "Red #2"
2015 | oil on panel | $1,800.00
image: 24 x 18" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "Reclining Figure"
bronze | 16 x 10 x 5" | $1,850.00

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Kristie Bretzke "Really?"
2015 | oil on linen | $850.00
image: 8 x 12" | frame: 9 x 13"

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Kristie Bretzke "Portrait with Red Glasses"
2014 | oil on panel | $1,100.00
image: 16 x 12" | frame: 18 x 14"

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Kristie Bretzke "Daydream"
bronze | 6 x 7 x 21" | $2,300.00

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Kristie Bretzke "Barge Station, Marnay Sur Seine"
2014 | oil on panel | $1400
image: 16 x 20" | unframed

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Kristie Bretzke "Alley (Dumpster & Mannequin)"
2015 | oil on panel | $2,000.00
image: 16 x 24" | frame: 17 x 25"

Together | Alone

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 24, 2-5 p.m.

Best known for her portraits and plein air landscapes, Kristie Bretzke’s newest body of work features images gathered from her daily life: an unmade bed, a bathroom sink bathed in light, the glimpse of a curving staircase through a doorway. Using impressionistic brush strokes, a muted, yet warm palette and a chiaroscuro-quality of light, Bretzke’s quiet interiors – many of which are paired in a diptych fashion with a figure or portrait – leave the viewer pondering the story of the person who resides in these spaces.

Simultaneously haunting and seemingly familiar, Bretzke’s compositions are inspired by a combination of memory, real experience and imagined places. “These images are commonplace,” Bretzke writes. “… I hope viewers of my work dream up their own narratives while looking at my paintings.”

Kristie Bretzke received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota and currently maintains a studio at Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, an artist cooperative located in downtown Minneapolis. Bretzke has exhibited locally and internationally, including solo shows at XYandZ Gallery in Minneapolis, and group shows at Winfield Gallery in Carmel, California, and the Kaiping Art Museum in Kaiping, China. Bretzke has been an artist-in-residence at the Centre d’art Marnay Art Center in Marnay-sur-Seine, France, the Palazzo Rinaldi Noepoli in Potenza, Italy and at the Kunstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria.

Kristie Bretzke will be present at the opening reception on Saturday, January 24 from 2 to 5 p.m.