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Carl Grauer
Evening Blue Clouds (Realist Landscape Oil Painting of Small Town Night Scene)

2021

About the Item

"Evening Blue Clouds" By Carl Grauer Oil on Canvas 20x20 inches 21 x 21 x 3 inches framed, custom painted white wood floater frame Signed en verso Artist Carl Grauer captures the quiet curiosity of the neighbor's living room windows lit up in early evening. Midnight blue clouds begin to dissipate into the darkening sky and the street lights become illuminate in the foreground. Shadows play in the streets and on the rooftops cast by the grid of telephone wires criss crossing overhead. This painted scene by the Kansas native is a point of departure for any number of potential narratives! The painting is framed in custom white wood floater frame that is wired on the reverse for easy installation. Carl Grauer explores spatio-temporal themes in a new body of work started in the autumn of 2020. Like so many of us on lock down riding out the surges of the pandemic, Grauer retreated to nature near his home and studio in Poughkeepsie, NY. He used this time to slow down and mindfully observe the “minutia of leaves, moving clouds, and the time of day giving up its fight for the night”. Describing a new series of landscapes organized by a grid structure, the artist explains “I paint a perspective that tracks change, point of view, and these fourth-dimensional observations on a two-dimensional surface with oils.” Artist Bio: Carl Grauer is a painter based in Poughkeepsie, NY in the beautiful Hudson Valley. He primarily works in oil, painting mostly portraits and figure-based contemporary realistic paintings. Born in rural Kansas, Grauer left to complete his degrees in human biology and his MFA in medical illustration from the University of Kansas and the University of Michigan, respectively. He spent two years in London studying figurative and portrait painting with several studios and has garnered success showing work nationally and internationally, including being shortlisted for the Wells Art Contemporary Award in the U.K., exhibiting with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London, and having been granted several residencies including the Jentel Artist Residency in Banner, Wyoming. Artist Resume Education Master of Fine Arts, University of Michigan Bachelor of Arts, Biology, University of Kansas Solo Exhibitions 2019 FROM MEMORY, Queen City 15 Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY 2019 The Lavender Temple of Their Most Fabulous, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2019 Oil Paintings, Cunneen-Hackett Theatre Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY 2017 #twohourportraits, 510 Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY 2016 Recollections, Point Gallery, Denver, CO 2012 Recollections, Goose Barnacle, Brooklyn, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 TIME, Bau Gallery, Beacon, NY 2020 INTERIORS, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2020 Providence Art Club National Juried Show, Providence, RI 2020 Margins, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 2019 Body Beautiful II, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 2018 Lights Up!, Queen City 15, Poughkeepsie, NY 2018 Here's Looking at You Kid, The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Peculiar Rarities, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2018 The Other Art Fair, Featured Artist; Los Angeles, CA and Brooklyn, NY 2017 Americana, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2017 Dia Staff Art Show, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY 2017 Petit, Emerge Gallery & Art Space, Saugerties, NY 2016 Being Her Now: Feminine Identity In The 21st Century, Salisbury University Gallery, Salisbury, MD 2016 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK 2016 Annual Non-Members Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY 2016 Strange Figurations, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY 2015 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK 2015 The Wells Art Contemporary Awards Shortlist, Wells & Mendip Museum, Wells Somerset, UK 2014 SATURNALIA, Sweet ‘Art, London, UK 2014 The Other Art Fair, London, UK 2014 SEAMS, Sweet ‘Art, London, UK 2013 SONYA Prelude Exhibition, Free Candy, Brooklyn, NY Group Exhibitions con’t 2012 Blue, Rising Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2011 Free Parking Group Show, RePOP, Brooklyn, NY 2008 Family Matter, RePOP, Brooklyn, NY 2005 Prodigal Suns, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Opie Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2005 Annual Juried Exhibition, Images Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2000 Skin Deep, JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000 MFA Graduate Exhibit, Rackham Galleries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Creator:
    Carl Grauer (1975, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2021
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 21 in (53.34 cm)Width: 21 in (53.34 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Hudson, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2278977742

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