About

Greta Kresse (b. 1999, Little Rock, AR) is a figurative painter based in Fayetteville, AR. She received her BA from Hendrix College and her MFA from the University of Arkansas. Kresse is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2026) and has attended residencies at Anderson Ranch, New York Studio School, Willow House, and Great Spruce Head Island.

Working with oils on aluminum, Kresse creates vibrant paintings that explore human connection within the Southern landscape. Her practice moves between sustained plein air observation and larger, more ambitious studio compositions. Limited palettes and glazing dissolve figures into humid landscapes or heighten chaos, pushing the work toward poetry. Kresse holds restlessness and love, tragedy and humor, in irresolution, asking the viewer to resist singular readings in favor of questions about home, identity, and belonging.