"Backyard Sunset" By Carl Grauer
Oil on Canvas
20x20 inches, 21 x 21 x 3 inches framed in painted white wood floater frame
Signed en verso
Artist Carl Grauer expertly and astutely captures the dramatic sunsets so commonly experienced near his home in the Hudson Valley. Striated clouds are illuminated by the setting sun; fiery orange clouds dominate the blue sky in this charming landscape painting on canvas. The unique perspective includes a picket fence and neighborhood rooftops cast in shadow, framing the dramatic summer's eve sky. 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