Margret Storck-Houlahan

PAINTINGS

The Green Glow

The decisive moment is the first glance at a painting, the surprising encounter between viewer and work. So to speak, the moment of emptiness that comes from thoughtless seeing, the first sensual absorption of color, shape, layout, composition, in short, the totality of the material from which this particular image is evoked. This state of seeing free of any judgment lasts only a few seconds, if at all.
Margret Storck, who lives in the south of France, is closer in her painting to the optical illusions of deserts than to the Hanseatic northern light of her hometown Bremen. Although any painting devoted to light refers to Impressionism, which originated in France, Margret Storck's paintings have little to do with it. They are not open-air paintings, but rather recreations of light moods that are driven into the artificial. Everything that is permitted in the dream and the mirage seems to be used effectively in these interiors, which are covered as if by color filters. We are familiar with the superimpositions of mirror images that suddenly project the room in a sideways glance and the outside in a second layer like a camera obscura, so that we have two superimposed realities or images that create colorful...

1954 born in Bremen
1973-1980 Studies HKM – Art School Bremen - Germany
1979 Young-Printmaker-Prize at the Sixth British
International Print Biennale Bradford - England
1980 Founding member of the Society for Contemporary
Art – Bremen - Germany
1981 Prize for Promotion of Fine Arts - Bremen - Germany

Works sold to private collections and to Museums in Berlin and Bremen

exhibitions (selection):

2023 The Own and the Foreign, Kazbek, with Per Gulden, Gallery of the Art-association Kunstfreunde Pritzwalk, Pritzwalk - Germany
2022 The Eye of Wonder, Gallery Baume des Pèlerins, Sablet - France
2021 Candide, Gallery Baume des Pèlerins, Sablet - France
Laissés pour contes, Musée Marc Deydier, Cucuron - France
2020 Discovery-Degustation, Château Cohola, Sablet - France
2019 25 Years Reinmetall, Düsseldorf - Germany
2017 Gallery Studio UM - Avignon - France
Open Artistes Ateliers - Villeneuve-les-Avignon
France
2014 Provencal encounters, Kühne Lage, Hamburg - Germany
First Sixtrace, Sablet - France
2013 Gallery Biribum, Düsseldorf - Germany
2011 Franciscan cloister, Tarascon - France
2010 Fire & Ice, Düsseldorf - Germany
2009 Courses of art, Avignon - France
2001 5.Internationale Photographs-Triennale Esslingen
Germany