Danny Gretscher for Great White Melrose

Danny Gretscher’s vivid, fractured paintings and prints are dotted with loose figurative forms that frequently dissolve into chromatic geometric shapes, raw planes of thick impasto, and enigmatic snatches of poetic text.

Made with spray paint, acrylic, pencil, and other materials, these pieces call to mind the totemic canvases by Jean-Michel Basquiat and the raw compositions of such painters as Philip Guston and Francis Bacon. Gretscher began spray painting graffiti at age 16, and his style draws on the jagged expressionism of the art form.

Gretscher has exhibited in London, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, and Montreal, among others.