Formal Proof; Sterling Allen and Larry Graeber, Project Room Blue Star Contemporary
BIO
Larry Graeber a Texas-based artist, works in studios in San Antonio and Marfa. Raised in Austin the oldest of three children, the son of an architect, and homemaker. As a youth Larry was always involved in making things; forts, treehouses and down hill coasters. As a teenager, junior high - high schooler he worked summers at his grandad's lumber yard, Graeber Lumber.
In college Larry initially studied architecture, then discovered the art department where things came naturally, studying painting, printmaking, jewelry and filmmaking. By his second year he had already found a studio in downtown San Marcos that he devoted to painting.
Graeber began exhibiting in 1971, curated into Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. His first major one person exhibition was in 1974, Works From a Small Duplex, curated by director John Leeper hosted by the McNay Art Museum in their upstairs galleries. Represented in both public and private collections, books and magazines, he most enjoys exhibiting in group and one person shows.
Recent events:
2019 pop up Gallery 90 - 13 artists, three openings, nov 29 - dec 28
formal proof - exhibit at BSC: blurb book with essay by Anjali Gupta
Blue Star Contemporary: Formal Proof; Sterling Allen and Larry Graeber, Project Room
State Wide: Texas Sculpture Group exhibit Houston Baptist University
Studio Debris - Sculpture, blurb book with the essay by Matthew Mendez
When They Appear; Marilyn Jolly & Larry Graber, Grayduck Gallery, Austin, catalog
Larry Graeber, Works on Paper, March Spotlight, Platform Gallery, Seattle WA
1340 Art Magazine 2019//01 - page 45; Creatures oil on canvas 2018
2018 three blurb books - Eye on You, paintings and drawings, Dec 2018
Sky and Land, painting, May - Aug 2018
Coupling and other paintings, Jan - Apr 2018,
exhibit of paintings; Sky and Land, Greasewood Gallery, Marfa TX
Fifth Annual ArtSpace 111 Regional Juried Exhibition: Juried by Christina Rees
International Sculpture Center, mixed media sculpture, Boy, Hamilton Township
International Sculpture Center's Chapter Member Exhibition at Zona Maco, Mexico City
Silent; Dock Space Gallery, paintings and sculpture, San Antonio TX, Jan 13-Feb 2
2017 blurb book - paintings, works on paper, sculpture
assorted work; Overland Partners, paintings, sculpture, paper works, San Antonio, TX, Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Fiction; exhibition of sculpture and wall reliefs, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX, Oct 2 - Nov 3
One of two presenters, James Surls and myself, at the Richard and Pam Salmon sculpture competition
symposium sponsored by Angelo State University and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, Oct 13
Intersections; Rachael Wren, David Alcantar, Larry Graeber - Curated by Benjamin McVey, Anthem Gallery,
hosted by Fl!ght Gallery, Blue Star, San Antonio
Place to Place; exhibition of sculpture, paintings, works on paper; catalog, essay by Chad Dawkins, de
stijl\Podium for Art, Austin, TX
The Austin Chronicle - Arts & Culture. Larry Graeber: Place to Place by Sam Anderson Ramos,
http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2017-04-07/larry-graeber-place-to-place/
Red Dot, curated by Jacqueline McGilvray, catalog, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio
Survey: Texas sculpture group; curated by Chad Dawkins, Texas State University
2016 Passing Glance; James Joffe & Larry Graeber, Gallery 20/20, San Antonio
Above and Below; six sculptors, Curated by Sculpture Month Houston. sponsored by Rudolph Blume Fine Art
/Art Scan Gallery, Houston
Sculpture Month Houston; celebration and survey, Oct 15 - Nov 19 at the Decorative Ctr., Houston,
Rivard Report - Urban. Independent. All About San Antonio. Larry Graeber: Making Art as a Way of Life by
David S Rubin http://therivardreport.com/larry-graeber-making-art-as-a-way-of-life/
Meet the Future 2016 pop-up exhibition, six artists, McNay Art Museum, curated by Rene Barilleaux
Artist’s Statement: principles of elements - painting, sculpture, work on paper;
After many years of practice I trust a degree of empathy and understanding have found lodging in me. I no longer have any pervasive agendas, but a more patient approach to the manner in which I work.
I am intrigued with the idea of approximations, even approximations of other approximations. I see this all the time as we modify the present in a reach for the future, even at times implementing nostalgia as reassurance of our history and identity.
Convergences and phenomena are a big part of this for me. The simple experience of three or more things occurring or arriving at the same place at the same time has always fascinated me. Besides it merely happening, its potential as a phenomena has the earmarks of history and the necessity found in innovation.
My effort is to engage similarly, to prevail on the elements of my studio, past work and goals of intention. I may merely add to the “debris”, but the engagement has potential, an unfinished drawing, painting or sculpture may get finished, a new idea may occur. All in benefit of my hope to make coherent artifacts, intuitively accessible and subjectively understood.
contact information 210 834 0588 LarryGraeber@icloud.com
Texas painter and sculptor located in San Antonio, Texas
Please find here illustrated current paintings, sculpture, a page of assorted paper works and a miscellaneous page of past work that are also available.
