Gretchen Wagner

My work addresses the contemporary commercialization of color and craft synthesized through printmaking and embroidery. Each series is designed to manipulate the material attributes of color and demonstrate the limitations in understanding color identity. These experiments are calculated to adjust hue, saturation, and value within the confines of a specific form that evolves throughout the discourse.Motivated by my fascination with the inability to fully comprehend color, I utilize the language of color to bridge theory and application; art and design; hand and machine. In attempting to study absolute color, the work observes the historical and contemporary distinctions of reproducible, immediate, mass-produced, situational, and paradoxical color.

studio GRETCHEN WAGNER is a creative archive for the color explorations of artist and designer, Gretchen Wagner. Her work is influenced by the use of color and their interactions as applied in built space, interactive sculpture and her studio practice.Over the course of her 10+ year career, she has worked closely with both customers and manufacturers within the A&D community to address material, color and trend research. She graduated with her MFA in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Wagner continues to consult with industry partners while furthering her experiments and research surrounding color and theory in the classroom as a Professor of Foundation Studies.