Bio.
Two years of college, otherwise self taught. Raised in Austin the oldest of three, mother was a volunteer, my dad an architect.
Built forts, tree houses, and coasters as a boy. In school, junior high/high school studied the industrial arts / architecture, summers spent at my granddad's lumberyard becoming familiar with assorted tools, materials, construction building methods and one year building a soapbox derby.
College, amounted to studies in printmaking, jewelry, painting, sculpture, and filmmaking. In my second year at Southwest Texas State, I founded my first studio.
After the two years in San Marcos I moved to San Antonio and studied sculpture with Phil Evett at Trinity University then acquired four large limestone blocks that I worked on for four years while waiting on tables.
First important exhibit invitation was being curated into - Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1971. In 1974, John Leeper, Director of the McNay Art Museum, invited me to exhibit works I had been making in my duplex, at the McNay, show titled Works from a Small Duplex.
Subsequent years included various galleries / shows, a focus on large scale public sculpture and a time devoted to painting. In 1986 in conjunction with the founding of the Blue Star Art Complex, a group of us produced an inaugural show, Contemporary Art for San Antonio, presented in protest of the marginalization of contemporary art in the city; 26 artists and myself.
Representation in Dallas, Craighead Green Gallery and Houston, Gremillion Gallery sustained my livelihood until the passing of my folks in 2010. Around this time, I was also included in a couple of books; Art at Our Doorstep 2008, compiled by Riley Robinson (Artpace) Trinity Press and Texas Abstract; modern/contemporary, 2014 Michael Paglia and Jim Edwards, Frisco Books.
Family; wife and daughter dominated this period of my life until the pandemic, ending with a Fall show 2019 at the Contemporary, Blue Star Arts Complex, Formal Proof with Sterling Allen, catalogue essay by Anjali Gupta closed the era. It also became a time when I began to spend more time in Marfa founding a painting studio there.
Following the pandemic, work resumes with participation in the TSG events, and various group and one person shows.
Studios in San Antonio and Marfa TX
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statement of purpose– to raise questions and engage the eye.
Recent events:
2026
Silent Drift - works from the studio - San Antonio Central library, August 1–September 12
Summer Reflections - group show, San Antonio Art League and Museum, 6/21 – 10/ 7
Echoes of Wonder - IRVING ARTS CENTER, City of Irving, may 9 - June 6
Abstract Awareness - group show curated by Allysha & Mark Anthony @ SMART gallery, March 14 - 21, San Antonio
Rendezvous - exhibit of paintings at MSB Studios, San Antonio, March 9, opening
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2025
Red Dot - 35th annual, Contemporary at the Blue Star, San Antonio fall show
Less Is Always More - Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX November
Contemporary Texas Sculpture, Artist of the Texas Sculpture Group, editor Diana L Roberts
Form and Vision: Texas Sculpture Group - the Museum of Biblical Art
31st International Sculpture Conference, Dallas
Marfa United Studio Tour - The Coal and Wood, Chinati Weekend, Marfa
Small Things / Et Hus Studio, Blue Star Arts Complex September
Art Santa Fe / artavita booth - 4 paintings and a sculpture June 11-13
Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas TSG juried exhibition May 10 - June 18
Art Expo New York, digital display Booth 107 Circle Foundation, April 3-6, 2025
Morpheus / temporary identities, ITSLIQUID / Venice, six slide presentation April
ISC Artsy Artist Exhibit, sculpture month/international sculpture day April
2024
Red Dot Miami Booth #100 video of four works, Dec. 4–8
Together by Design, St. Mary's Univ., San Antonio, 5 person, curated by Brian St. John
Red Dot, 34th Annual, Contemporary in the Blue Star, San Antonio
OpenStudio, Chinati weekend, Marfa, TX October 11–13
EuropArtfair Sept 6 – 8, inclusion in monitor presentation
Due South, San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum, group sculpture, May 23 - July 26
Water's Edge, Rockport Center for the Arts, painting, sculpture April 9 - May 26
Material Evolution, selected work from TSG, Gallery 2000, Austin community college, Highland campus, January 6 - March 7, Lana Meador curator
ART EINDHOVEN, Netherlands art fair, solo video presentation, February 3–4
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2023
Reflected Light, Flight Gallery BSAC - paintings, sculpture, works on paper
Foil - foil leaf paintings, sculpture - Magical Realism Studio
TSG group show - Irving Arts Center
Novel Ideas Art Book Fair, Contemporary at Blue Star, May 5
International Sculpture Day, open studio April 29
​Blue Star Arts Complex Pop-up blurb book
Pop-up exhibit at the Blue Star Arts Complex: paintings, sculpture and two works on paper, February. This exhibit illustrates examples of paintings, sculpture and recent foam board pieces, work that began in early spring 2022.
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2022
Summer '22, blurb book: paintings, sculpture and some foil leaf application
Red Dot, Contemporary at Blu Star October
texas sculpture sltx, 52 texas sculptors - art museum TX sugar land, aug 19 - oct 16
Collect Art publication, included in Spring issue
International Sculpture Day - open studio, April 30
2021
Altamira, Sculpture Month Houston; primal urge to create, The Silos, Huston
New Texas Talent XXVIII Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas
state of sculpture, TSG Exhibition at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts:
sculpture today - Dock Space Gallery, exhibition and auction TSG
open studio - International sculpture day
Witnesses - Works on Paper, March Spotlight, Platform Gallery (web)
Jan - Feb - "ON THE BAYOU" TSG Exhibition, Redbud Gallery, Houston
2020
Dec - Where to Look - Witnesses; blurb book, paintings and paperworks
July - Coming and Going; blurb book, works on paper 1990 – 2000 2020
first quarter blurb book - Landscapes, Portraits and Assemblies
Art Folio 2020 curated collection edited by Douglas King, Juror Mary Beaudry
Creativpaper Vol 2, issue 018, pages 40 - 45
Closing of exhibit Formal Proof; blurb book illustrates exhibit at Blue Star Contemporary Formal Proof;
Sterling Allen and Larry Graeber with essay by Anjali Gupta
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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
Glasstire - interview by Gary Sweeney December 9, 2019
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 Graeber, Grayduck Gallery, Austin, catalog
March Spotlight; Platform Gallery, Larry Graeber, Works on Paper, Seattle WA
1340 Art Magazine 2019//01 - page 45; Creatures, oil on canvas 2018
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2018
Eye on You; blurb book - paintings and drawings, Dec 2018
Sky and Land; blurb book - painting, May - Aug 2018
Coupling and other paintings; blurb book Jan - Apr 2018,
Sky and Land exhibit of paintings; Greasewood Gallery, Marfa TX
Fifth Annual ArtSpace 111, Regional Juried Exhibition: Juried by Christina Rees
International Sculpture Center, Hamilton Township; mixed media sculpture, Boy
International Sculpture Center, Zona Maco, Mexico City; Chapter Member Exhibition
Silent; Dock Space Gallery, paintings and sculpture, San Antonio TX, Jan 13-Feb 2
2017
paintings, works on paper, sculpture; Overland Partners Architects, San Antonio, TX,
Richard and Pam Salmon sculpture competition symposium at Angelo State University and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, Oct 13 - one of two presenters: James Surls and myself
Fiction; exhibition of sculpture and wall reliefs, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX,
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
Meet the Future 2016 pop-up exhibition, six artists, McNay Art Museum, curated by Rene Barilleaux