ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Teri Oberbreckling was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1962, into a long lineage of artists on her mother’s side, including painters, sculptors, wood carvers and musicians. Creative expression was woven into her daily environment and early education. It was in high school when she took a keen interest in impressionistic oil painting.
She studied Industrial Design and graduated with a degree in Packaging Technology from the University of Wisconsin – Stout which included exposure to Drawing, Painting and Sculpting, Modeling, Production Methods, and Interior Design.
She had regular exposure to contemporary galleries in Minneapolis during her college years, where she was exposed to a wide variety of ‘Abstracted Expressions’. It changed her definition of what art was, what constituted beauty.
Teri moved to Colorado in 1986 and began her corporate career. For the next 25+ years her creativity moved behind the camera lens as she explored the vast beauty of the Pacific Coast, the surreal canyons of Southern Utah, and the sublime energies of New Mexico, where she frequented the artist communities of Santa Fe and Taos and anywhere her travels took her.
In 2010, she traded the Colorado Rocky Mountains for the Florida Gulf Coast beaches and returned to her love of oil painting. And while she pursued this initially as a hobby, the desire to become a professional artist resurfaced.
Longing to be around other creatives, she joined the Naples Art District in Florida in 2020 and rented studio space. For the first time she had a conducive and collaborative environment that supported her dream.
Having recently retired from corporate pursuits, she currently lives north of Atlanta and works out of her home studio where she is honing her skillset and fine tuning her artistic style. She continues her life-long passion of photography and is nurturing her inner poet/writer. Her recent collections are derived from her newly written poetry.
Her works reflect what her mind is focusing on, what thoughts are prevalent, and what she is attracting in her life. Teri is inspired by vibrational, sensual, and emotional responses to her experiences and surroundings. Her art transforms the vibration of thought and emotion into a visual expression. For her, art is part of our language. It is emotion manifested and shared between the artist and another.
Through her work, she desires to influence people to think about their reality and how much control they choose to have over it. While she creates to satisfy her own passions, there is joy in connecting with another person through her work. And whether there is direct conversation or an unspoken shared resonance, it's a remarkable sensation.
The concept of being a vibrational being flows into her art process. Teri represents the unseen flow of vibrational frequencies that surround and interact with our senses. Her expressive manipulation of thin layers of transparent paint creates an abstracted atmosphere that evokes an instinctual response from the viewer. Her choice of titles aligns with the work which consists of flowing edges, shifting textures, and interconnected pathways that draw the viewer into her view of the human experience.
She prefers working in series with a cohesive, conceptual concept in mind. She approaches collections based on some idea or stimulus that leaves her with questions and a want for more exploration. Whether it’s an intriguing conversation, an unique experience, or during a meditation, intellectual concepts and constructs surface, and an interesting series evolves.
She’s written poetry, on and off throughout her life. Recently, it’s resurfaced as another tool she levers to see if a collection concept has shape. If I she can distill it down to poetic verse, it flushes out potential themes. This combination of written and visual cocreation gives depth to her work, emotionally and physically.
She studied Industrial Design and graduated with a degree in Packaging Technology from the University of Wisconsin – Stout which included exposure to Drawing, Painting and Sculpting, Modeling, Production Methods, and Interior Design.
She had regular exposure to contemporary galleries in Minneapolis during her college years, where she was exposed to a wide variety of ‘Abstracted Expressions’. It changed her definition of what art was, what constituted beauty.
Teri moved to Colorado in 1986 and began her corporate career. For the next 25+ years her creativity moved behind the camera lens as she explored the vast beauty of the Pacific Coast, the surreal canyons of Southern Utah, and the sublime energies of New Mexico, where she frequented the artist communities of Santa Fe and Taos and anywhere her travels took her.
In 2010, she traded the Colorado Rocky Mountains for the Florida Gulf Coast beaches and returned to her love of oil painting. And while she pursued this initially as a hobby, the desire to become a professional artist resurfaced.
Longing to be around other creatives, she joined the Naples Art District in Florida in 2020 and rented studio space. For the first time she had a conducive and collaborative environment that supported her dream.
Having recently retired from corporate pursuits, she currently lives north of Atlanta and works out of her home studio where she is honing her skillset and fine tuning her artistic style. She continues her life-long passion of photography and is nurturing her inner poet/writer. Her recent collections are derived from her newly written poetry.
Her works reflect what her mind is focusing on, what thoughts are prevalent, and what she is attracting in her life. Teri is inspired by vibrational, sensual, and emotional responses to her experiences and surroundings. Her art transforms the vibration of thought and emotion into a visual expression. For her, art is part of our language. It is emotion manifested and shared between the artist and another.
Through her work, she desires to influence people to think about their reality and how much control they choose to have over it. While she creates to satisfy her own passions, there is joy in connecting with another person through her work. And whether there is direct conversation or an unspoken shared resonance, it's a remarkable sensation.
The concept of being a vibrational being flows into her art process. Teri represents the unseen flow of vibrational frequencies that surround and interact with our senses. Her expressive manipulation of thin layers of transparent paint creates an abstracted atmosphere that evokes an instinctual response from the viewer. Her choice of titles aligns with the work which consists of flowing edges, shifting textures, and interconnected pathways that draw the viewer into her view of the human experience.
She prefers working in series with a cohesive, conceptual concept in mind. She approaches collections based on some idea or stimulus that leaves her with questions and a want for more exploration. Whether it’s an intriguing conversation, an unique experience, or during a meditation, intellectual concepts and constructs surface, and an interesting series evolves.
She’s written poetry, on and off throughout her life. Recently, it’s resurfaced as another tool she levers to see if a collection concept has shape. If I she can distill it down to poetic verse, it flushes out potential themes. This combination of written and visual cocreation gives depth to her work, emotionally and physically.