Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Colleen Zacharias Gregoire grew up in the Midwest, and studied drawing and painting privately before receiving her MFA in painting from the University of Kansas. In addition to landscape painting, Gregoire's work focuses on architectural settings that reflect the intimacies of daily life. Porches and verandas of the 19th and 20th century, and the way in which people incorporate them as a welcoming space to their homes continue to be featured in her work.
Her latest series of paintings explores the various knickknacks we display outside of our homes for the purposes of nostalgia, decoration or to share an appreciation for kitsch, and how these displays can provoke specific memories or entertain the imagination. The traditional front porch is less common in southwest architecture, but the manner in which people decorate their gates or porticos has encouraged a more precise, still-life focus on the objects that are on display. While the role of light is still a key element to the work, Gregoire's recent oil paintings attempt to capture the curios of everyday items that reflect the culture of New Mexico.
