STOCKEBRAND STUDIOS

Artwork by Greta Stockebrand,

Greta Stockebrand is an abstract expressionist painter working with acrylics. She blends bold color with hints of surrealism to explore emotion, movement, and the layered nature of perception. Her work is driven by a desire to liberate color - allowing it wo exist not just within the limits of form or this dimension but as a living force of its own.

Using brushes, palette knives, paper towels, icing spreaders, and even her hands and fingers, she engages with the canvas physically and intuitively. Greta works from a chosen color palette, beginning with background layers and building toward detail and depth. Each piece evolves through vibrant strokes, added shadows, and touches of hyperreal elements like water drops or bubbles - tiny portals that invite a closer inspection.

Greta’s goal is not to define what the viewer sees, but to offer an invitation. She may suggest a direction through composition and color, but the truth of the image lies in the eye of the beholder. She believes a painting should unfold slowly - first grabbing attention with its energy, then revealing deeper meaning with time. Each interpretation is valid, each perception real. What begins as abstraction becomes deeply personal.

“I create images that are other than coloring outside the lines, color becomes the lines. Color is more than just a filler or background for the objects we observe. It has its own form and occupies a space of its own in my work. Color can be shown as gaseous and nebular forms, or as solid as a sphere. When color is given dimension, it becomes more than something that occupies shape, it is the shape.” -Greta Stockebrand

Greta is a New Mexico based fine artist who creates both large and small abstract acrylic and mixed media paintings. With a a stroke, bold colors are transformed to appear three dimensional. Color transforms visuall into shape and form.

She received her BFA in 1987 at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She moved to the Land of Enchantment in 1991, and started her professional career in 2017. Within a short time, her pieces were chosen to be on permanent display at a prominent Albuquerque gallery, Ghostwolf Gallery, In Albuquerque’s Old Town, and on private display in several businesses. Her works have also been utilized on set in several television shows, including Better Cal Saul.