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Carl Grauer
In the Guest Room (Contemporary Interior Painting of a Bedroom Doorway)

2022

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"In the Guest Room" painted in 2022 by Carl Grauer Contemporary Still Life Painting of a view into the Guest Bedroom Acrylic on Canvas in Custom Frame 16 x 12 inches, 19.5 x 15.5 x 2 inches framed in custom grey painted wooden frame Signed en verso In a new series titled Qu(i)e(t)er Interiors, Carl Grauer turns inward and brings us into an intimate space; his home. From a place of repose and safety, this environment provides warmth, comfort, and a stage to observe relationships among objects, beings, and the passage of light. His perspective tracks varied emotions, different points of view, and how the light is experienced by candlelight or sunlight reflected on walls and hardwood. “I found peace in observing the changes in light, and observing with slowness and mindfulness that comes during times of meditation.” Simple household objects are the subject of the rather complex compositions with layered perspectives. Grauer merges adept technical abilities with a penchant for authentic expression. This painting recalls the Dutch masters with its composition and soft application of paint. Sunlight streams in through the bedroom window, raking across a bed made up with white cotton sheets, and pooling onto the brown hard wood floor. This work is intimate, tranquil and is exquisite in its technical rendering. 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:
    2022
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Hudson, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU22712389242

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