Greta Boesel is an artist and musician originally from West Virginia, now living in San Francisco and Connecticut. Her hallmark “cantographs” — in which she assigns colors, shapes and other graphic elements to musical notes to create visual representations of songs — have been shown in galleries nationwide including Six Summit Gallery @ Port Authority (New York), the International Society of Experimental Artists (Mackinac Island, MI), the Susquehanna Art Museum (Harrisburg, PA), Arc Gallery (San Francisco), Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati), Emerge Gallery (Saugerties, NY) and others. In 2023 she received the Innovation Award from Contemporary Collage Magazine. Learn more about her process here. Greta is a co-founder of More Art Everywhere (now KNOWNsf), a project devoted to curating and installing shows of local artists’ work in locally owned venues. A classically trained pianist and accompanist, she has worked with many soloists and ensembles; as a young performer she competed at the MTNA Division level. She is also a vocalist who has sung with many choral groups and done session and live performance work with a variety of Bay Area musicians. She co-produces sacred choral music at AXIOS and is currently composing a collection of harmonic neo-traditional folk songs. Greta holds an industrial engineering degree from Virginia Tech and is an administrative manager at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco.
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{ Interview } Who, what, why, where, when & how? | Contemporary Collage Magazine | Issue #37, October 2024
{ Series in progress } Söngskissur: Icelandic Song Sketches comprises 33 wall-hanging works of varying mediums representing the music of Iceland, from its medieval versified sagas to its contemporary classical compositions and the many eras between. Read more here: https://gretaboesel.com/art/cantograph-series/songskissur-icelandic-song-sketches/