Gina Kropf

Gina Kropf’s artwork is informed by the therapeutic effect of creativity in response to certain traumas to the body. Her orientation towards creativity reflects Bergson’s assertion
that it is a force which is fundamental to the continuity of life.

“Thick strokes of color from a pallet knife echo the process of my mind trying to soothe itself as the unsolicited unearthing of emotional and psychological residue from decades of eating disorders, alcoholism, and the body fetishism of the 1980’s in a patriarchal southern culture; the endless searching for comfort by beating down, hiding away, drowning. Each brushstroke momentarily nullifies a thought, but in an instant as quick as the shutter of my camera, I am confronted with another thought, another restless moment to be soothed again. What eventually surfaces on the canvas is a physical manifestation of these thoughts.”

Kropf was born in Raleigh, NC, where she began her career in photography. She earned her
BFA at Meredith College and is currently pursuing her MFA. The artist resides in lower
Manhattan.