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Carl Grauer
Forsythia Blooming (Abstracted Realist Landscape Painting of Residential Home)

2021

$12,200
£9,291.62
€10,709.95
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Abstracted realist gridded landscape showing the change of seasons with a blooming yellow forsythia bush in front of the artist's home "Forsythia Blooming" by Hudson Valley based artist, Carl Grauer Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches, 61 x 49 x 3 inches with a white painted wood floater frame Signed, verso Excellent condition and ready to hang 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.” Here the artist captures a blooming forsythia bush in front of his home. Each 12 x 12 inch square was painted during March to July of 2021, as he observed the flowers and leaves blooming. A bright pink underpainting was used to make the vibrant colors pop in the foreground, elements of which can be seen coming through the white snow, sky, and edges of the painting. A rainbow pride flag waves proudly on the artist's porch, accenting the saturated hues of the yellow forsythia against the vivid blue sky and green painted façade. This painting is complemented with a slim, white painted wood frame and is ready to hang. Artist Statement: During the past year there was a need to be in nature, to search for a small touch of a real experience. I found solace in stepping into nature, taking walks, breathing the air and observing with a slowness and mindfulness that comes during times of meditation. And from those moments, I dove into my intrigue with the daily change of a season, the minutia of leaves, moving clouds and the time of day giving up its fight for the night. Using an organized grid as a structure, I paint a perspective that tracks change, point of view and these fourth-dimensional observations on a two-dimensional surface with oils. Here are some works that explore my response to this time and being in the natural world. CV 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 Press KU College Stories, "Hawks to Watch: Carl Grauer, Contemporary Artist", May, 2019 Poughkeepsie Journal, "'Tickled Pink' artists display their interpretations of color in group exhibit", by Linda Marston-Reid, Feb. 6, 2019 High Country News, "The Ascension of Matthew Shepard", by Katherine E. Standefer, Oct. 12, 2018 Chronogram, "7 Hudson Valley Contemporary Artists to Watch Out for: Local Gallerists Share The Artists on their Radars", By Chronogram Staff, Aug. 23, 2018 Canvas, A Blog by Saatchi Art, "Brooklyn: Carl Grauer's Two Hour Portraits", by Laura Skudder, Oct. 10, 2018 VoyageLA, "Art & Life with Carl Grauer, June 4, 2018 Art Aesthetics Magazine, "Q&A: Carl Grauer", by D. S. Graham, May 2017 Saatchi Gallery Magazine, "Carl Grauer, Painter", by Emily Catrice, May 2016 Creative Mapping, "Best of Moniker & The Other Art Fair", by Marie-Laurence Camara
  • Creator:
    Carl Grauer (1975, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2021
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 61 in (154.94 cm)Width: 49 in (124.46 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Hudson, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2278978132

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