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"Meet" the artist...
The Story of Gregory RademacherMany of you have probably wondered about Greg's background and education. The following article was written about Greg in the September 1993 issue of the "Currents." It May give you some insight as to how Greg's style of photography began.He looks as though he should have been one of the Beach Boys, but he thinks like one of the Old Masters. In Fact, it is one of the Old Masters who have strongly influenced him in his quest to produce portrait photography worthy of being called "art." The signature Rademacher work is strongly reminiscent of Reynolds, Sargent and Gainsborough. It is portraiture in the classical style, but Greg Rademacher has combined the skill of the brush with the immediacy of the lens to create work which "pulls you in." The walls of his studio in Prior Lake are testament to one of his professional goals of "Making art available to everyone." There life-sized portraits of Minnesotans and their families hang in the atmosphere of gallery presentation rather than commercial display. They are presented in the "classic style" with soft lighting and framed with distinction. And they should be for these are no frozen images captured when the shutter snaps. These are "the windows of the soul" begun on film and enhanced by brush, proving that "art does mirror life." The story might end there were it just a chronicle of a master of the lens preserving famous faces for the pages of history. But this work is not done on New York's Fifth Avenue or a trendy studio in London or Paris. It comes from the heart of the Minnesota River Valley and it is a story about the people of the Valley and two families separated by 3,000 miles. Continue The Story of Gregory Rademacher... |