Comments on: Odd Nerdrum, Gretna Campbell, Bill Scott

By: Noah Dillon

Noah Dillon — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 01:23:36 +0000

In reply to Oscar. Wow. What bile you have. I think the writer is referring to her own associations with the work. She doesn't claim that Nerdrum was using those movies as direct references. I'm not really sure how much it would matter if he had. You really don't have to be so exercised about it though, that's certain. I imagine this review hasn't hurt him financially or personally at all.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:40:28 +0000

What a shallow and condescending review of Nerdrum’s work. Is this all you see in it? A collection of B movies?

If you knew anything about him, or at least TRIED to learn something, you would know that he spent a lot of time in Iceland. All his “lunar” as you call them landscapes are not borrowed from Mad Max. They are inspired by Iceland, which is a desolate, surreal place that looks otherworldly.

Also I doubt that Nerdrum has watched any of the movies you refer to. So save your spit.

By: diane kominick-ouzoonian

diane kominick-ouzoonian — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:30:14 +0000

In reply to bill white. I agree with your comment that Gretna was an angel. She was the only teacher I had at the New York Studio School that was kind!

By: bill white

bill white — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:32:33 +0000

There is a special vitality in Gretna Campbell’s work that may come from her honesty and sincerity as an artist. Her clear and decisive mark-making resonates deeply to me in her paintings. Her images have at once a familiarity, as I know this place, and then I find that I am discovering a new way to see these places. There is an energy in her work that is complemented by her contemplative introspection seems palpable to me so that the process she has engaged in to make the work is revealed slowly by my own looking and examination of the painting. She said once at the New York Studio School that Rembrandt was an angel and I think she is one too.