I wish I had the guts (and talent) to paint my home in abstract streaks and swirls with vivid color on a larger-than-life scale like the work of artist Katharina Grosse.  There’s something personal, enveloping, inspiring, free, fearless and utterly fun about her work.  All the adjectives that help to make a house a home.

Armed with a spray gun, any object, material or structure becomes her canvass.  The result employs the whole room and energizes the space with the sensation of the physical movement that was gracefully exercised in order to complete the work.

Katharina Grosse was born in Freiburg, im Breisgau, Germany in 1961, she now lives and works in Berlin.  Her resume is celebrated and lengthy, but mostly, I just think she’s a cool woman with an enviable and limitless vision.  Fair warning to my family, a bold burst of color might find its way into our home in the near future.

various works by Katharina Grosse