ON VIEW

Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse is known for her brightly colored acrylic paintings and installations. Often using an industrial air brush, layers of paint, or mounds of pigmented dirt, Grosse directly paints onto architecture, interiors, landscapes, canvases, sculpted Styrofoam, and fiberglass shapes. Taking inspiration from art historical references such as frescoes, plein-air painting, Abstract Expressionism, and urban graffiti, the artist expands the confines of traditional art historical categories such as two-dimensional painting, giving vibrant hues palpable form that become inseparable from the surfaces they cover.