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On display
Gretchen Albrecht's Banded Orange
Gretchen Albrecht Banded Orange 1973. Acrylic on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwheu, purchased 1974
Art Bite
Past event
Meet at the front desk
Free
Join volunteer guide Sara Newman as she discusses Gretchen Albrecht's Banded Orange in the 1969 Comeback Special exhibition on the ground floor.
Art Bites are 30-minute lunchtime presentations on a single work on display, presented by our staff, guides and guest speakers.
There's a new Art Bite to enjoy each Friday at 12.30pm.
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
1969 Comeback Special
27 August – 6 November 2016
A fascinating focus show centred on a decade in which Gallery director, Brian Muir, began to acquire contemporary New Zealand art for the city’s collection.
Collection
Gretchen Albrecht Banded Orange
Banded Orange is one of a series of paintings Gretchen Albrecht made in the early 1970s inspired by the view looking west from Tāmakimakaurau / Auckland where land, sea and twilit skies collide in simplified, abstract bands of colour. She said: “It was just fantastic. There was this incredible explosion every night of the setting sun going down behind this bar of hills, which became like a black undulating shape. That was my view.”
(Te Wheke, 2020)
