Gérard Stricher

Gerard Stricher was born in 1948 to a family of artists in Sarrebourg, France. As a child he was already dreaming  of becoming a painter and drew prodigiously. Self-taught, he immersed in the café society of painters, attended gallery openings , and was encouraged by sales but ultimately decided to enter industry.

He became a highly regarded international manager whose carcer and travels led him become a ”World Citizen ”.

idening his horizon, observing new people, different landscapes, and other realities, which gradually became stratified in his unconscious to reappear later in his painting. He acquired and old mill in the French Vexin, established his studio where he worked feverishly.
His exhibition in 2007 in Paris at the Espace Commines, introduced him  to collectors and galleries. In 2010 the enthusiastic response of the patrons of Bartlow Gallery in Chicago launched his American career.

In 2011 they featured his work in a one man show at Art Chicago which led to his further representation in Indianapolis by Artbox Gallery. His work is the collection of Empire Bank in Springfield, Missouri, and the PepsiCola Foundation of New York and a few prestigious private collections including that of American Bob Bohlen. After représentation at Galerie Protée (Paris) he joined Galerie Schwab Beaubourg in Paris where I will have a solo exhibition from 10th October untill 10th November 2012.

I also joined recently the Laura rathe gallery in Houston tx, where I will have a solo exhibition starting the 20 October untill 20th November 2012.