Formal Proof; Sterling Allen and Larry Graeber, Project Room Blue Star Contemporary
BIO
Larry Graeber is a Texas-based artist, born in San Antonio, the oldest of three children, raised in Austin, the son of an architect, and homemaker. Larry was always involved in making things; forts, treehouses and down hill coasters. As a teenager, junior high - high schooler he worked summers at Graeber Lumber, his granddad’s San Antonio lumberyard.
In college Larry initially studied architecture, but quickly garnered an interest in painting and sculpture, studying painting, printmaking, jewelry and filmmaking. By his second year he had already found a studio in downtown San Marcos he devoted to painting.
Graeber began exhibiting in 1971 curated into the Texas Painting and Sculpture 71 Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. His first major one person exhibition was in 1974, Works From a Small Duplex, McNay Art Museum curated by director John Leeper. Besides other publications his work is Included the book Art At Our Doorstep and Texas Abstract, Modern/ Contemporary, and continues to exhibit in group and one person shows regularly. Graeber also paints in west Texas where he has a small studio
Recent events:
2019 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.
