Red Dot
34th Annual
Contemporary at The Blue Star - through the end of the year
Together by Design
St. Mary's University.
Show is in the Blume Library Gallery
now through Nov 29.
Red Flag 41 x 25 x 8" foil leaf, wood, paint, nylon, wire 2024
Red Dot – This work is available at the Contemporary
open studio / Chinati Weekend
Oct. 11 - 13, 2024
If you're in Marfa this weekend, please make a point to come by, see this painting and others, some sculpture and works on paper.
Pavilion 48 x 72 x 1.25" oil/canvas 2024 $7000
Back to school:
Like a season of transition, we are either experiencing this or know someone who is.
New foam board pieces and some readdressed ones have dominated the summer, and as the season draws to a close so they too seem to have drawn to a close.
These three illustrate a fraction of the experience. In time I hope to show more.
As always, inquiries are welcome.
Because I work from my imagination, I am always looking for information to inform it.
Glass Bottom 18.5 x 28 x 1.3" foam board, metal tape, foil leaf, paint 2024 $2500
Star 16 x 18 x 1" foil leaf, foam board, metal tape, paint 2024 $1500
Silver Stream 24.75 x 20.5 x 1" form board, metal tape, graphite, foil leaf, paint 2024 $2500
Q and R 58 x 78 x 1.5" oil on canvas 1992 $9000
Summer : August
Olympics
Fin 12 x 12.5 x 2"
foil leaf, paint, wood 2024
Because I work from my imagination, I am always looking for information to inform it.
Chair 16 x 30 x 1.2" oil/canvas 2023 $3000
Quarry 25 x 30 x 1.2" oil/canvas 2013 $3500
Monitor 28 x 24 x .75" oil/canvas 2024 $3000
July Summer
Following the summer solstice July comes on as a time to slow down and dream.
Because I work from my imagination, I am always looking for information to inform it.
South Jetty 26 x 23 x .75" oil/canvas 2024
Hen 17 x 14 x 3.5"
foil leaf, paint, wood
2024
Blue Blue 11 x 7 x 5" wood, paint 2024
exhibitions 2d, Marfa, TX.
400 S. Highland
x2dmarfa@gmail.com text 432.207.0011
As I understand it in the gallery they are situated on an east west axis one to the another.
Yellow Yellow 11 x 7.5 x 2.5" wood, paint 2024
Silver Balance 22 x 17 x 14" foil leaf, paint on wood 2023
Due South
Texas Sculpture Group
San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum
San Benito, Texas until July 26, 2024
Support 20 x 16 x 7" foil leaf, paint, wood 2023
Water's Edge -
Rockport Center for the Arts
McKelvey Charitable Fund Gallery
paintings, sculpture and works on paper
15 paintings, 5 sculpture, 4 works on paper
April 10 - May 26, 2024
638 E. Market St., Rockport, TX 78382
Heading
48 x 38 x 1.5"
foil leaf, oil, metal tape, graphite, foam board
2023
$6000
Industry
39 x 52 x 1.5"
oil/canvas
2024
$5000
Larry Graeber’s new exhibition, Water’s Edge, is awash with the in-betwixts and in-betweens on a multitude of levels. The show examines the area that exists between the shore and the water. This work is inspired and infused by childhood visits with his grandfather at the shore and a lifetime of thinking about these spaces and places. The joining between the land and the water can exist in salt, fresh, still or moving bodies of water. It can signify a day at the beach or the transmordial moment that our ancestors started to creep out of the water. It is a transitional and meditative space. It forces an individual to consider not only its physical nature but an emotional, intellectual and psychic moment because this place does not just mean a physicality – it signifies a moment in time and movement. Therefore, we look at Graeber’s work in this show as an examination of place and time and all that can be considered during that actual or imagined journey. The paintings and collages in the show explore this theme and are filled with the transmutation of matter and time. Even the materials in the work for the show often seem simple - some of the actual elements can seem quite ordinary. This can be seen in a sapphiric gem of a painting, Blue Lake, which seems at first to be an entirely abstract oil on canvas but in actuality depicts water and sky and shore in a small inlet. This movement between abstraction and realism is another example of the space in between that we see in these paintings. Juxtaposed to that, viewing Red Island, a collage composed of foil leaf and metal tape and paint on foam board is just as effective an examination of this theme but seemingly almost diagrammatic in composition. These two works on first viewing seem to be so disparate that one could question why they are in the same group - yet again, the artist is dealing with the edge of things and where different types of matter meet. So, the show is made stronger by their inclusion. This can also be seen in the two oil paintings, Bay and Blue Dream. Each a siren’s song to a balanced co-existence of the real world versus the imagined. Included in the exhibit are a number of paintings featuring the human form. In Retreat, Boatman and Bather there are abstracted individuals in these spaces caught between the water and land. Even though there are activities taking place, the individuals’ actions no matter their relative sizes never truly dominate the landscape and seascape. Retreat features two humans at the beach caught up in their own drama while the landscape around them is colorful and beautiful. Their large dominant forms are almost an imposition in the sand – effectively communicating this otherness of interaction and time. Conversely, the person in the Boatman is abstraction in human form. S/he is pushing a small dingy off the shore or pulling the boat onto the beach. The moment in time is suspended as s/he is completely caught up in concentration in the action being performed – yet completely familiar and understood in this snapshot. Despite being featureless in both paintings, the combination of the staging with the activities of the figures effectively communicates the composition and feel of each painting. Bather is a close up of the head of an abstracted person caught in this moment in time. The yellow hair and pale face of the figure is set against a veritable continuum of sky and water. There is a small spit of land that shows in the background. The bather is caught looking and thinking in an idyllic space. The style and placement of these figurations communicates and captures this sensibility of the edge. As the artist states: My work has and continues to be about convergences, subtle and consequential. The use of time both as actually captured and as inferred are important in these paintings. In Crossing and Industry there is a strong sense of the passage of time by the subject matter, title and the sense of the edge depicted. The Crossing is a homage to Thomas Cole and his Voyage of Life paintings. A small figure moves across the picture plane where the shoreline of a lake and a landscape are depicted. The figure travels through time and life in the painting which is a beautiful riot of markers, color and space. The sense of a passage feels strong here and helps one understand that the trek is the same as a life journey. The convergences of sky, water and a person feel similar to being on the verge and the beginning of a transition. Industry tells a different kind of story. Where one is spring and full of color and promise, Industry speaks to humidity and the changes wrought by human presence in a simmering landscape. With grays and subtle blues, whites and darker pastel colors, this painting shows an enormous sky, a thread of land with industrial buildings and the water meeting the two. The conglomerates of forms and colors create a different feel imbued with an inherent warning about a fragile environment. Yet, there is still the sense of beauty in the sky and the water which are bigger and more dominant than the human presence as indicated by the gray buildings. Water’s Edge is an examination of the space between the water and the land on many levels. Irrespective of media, time, composition and color, Larry Graeber is able to use this examination to infer and explore the beauty of the moment, human frailty and nature on vibrant canvases. The work transcends the moment and the place and calls to the viewer to enjoy the view, the Edge and life. Ellen Nettles Art Now Management April 2024
Ellen Nettles
Art Now Management
April 2024
Eclipse - April 8, 2024
This painting came out of nowhere deliberate. However, a subject I have been interested in since a boy. As a boy, it was illustrated as a primitive encounter, today science, but very much both.
Eclipse 47 x 38 x 1.2“ oil, foil leaf, foam board, wood 2024 $4000
Roy 20 x 24 x 1.25" oil / canvas
Lead painting of PowerPoint presentation - Art Eindhoven, Netherland art fair, February, 2024
Material Evolution:
Juried by Lana Meador, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at San Antonio Museum of Art. This exhibition includes artworks from over twenty Texas Sculpture Group members and highlights an array of traditional and modern techniques in sculpture.
Location:
Gallery 2000 - The Art Galleries, Austin Community College
6101 Highland Campus Dr.
Austin, TX 78752
January 16 through March 7, 2024
Gallery hours 10 to 5 Tuesday through Thursday
Settlement 20 x 8 x 12" foil leaf, paint on wood 2023
January Notes
Red Shower 22 x 18.5 x 1"
oil, oil stick, foil leaf, foam board, wood 2023
Crossing 36 x 45" oil/canvas 2023
A bit fanciful, the little man in the lower foreground meeting a light, and then darkening landscape, sheltered by a big sky.
Expect this painting to be in my upcoming Rockport Center for the Arts show Water's Edge, April / May of this year.
Fog
23.5 x 32.5 x 1"
foil leaf, oil, metal tape, foam board
2023
$3000
December Fog
More images of these works can be forwarded on request.
Falcon 18 x 7 x 4". foil leaf, paint, wood, steel 2023
$2000
Silver Course 18 x 14 x 7" foil leaf, paint, screws, wood 2023
$2500
Bather
18 x 24 x 1.3" oil/canvas. 2023
$2000
November Studio Wall
four paintings:
three portraits
and an amalgam
view video
Blue and Yellow Figure
34 x 28 x 1.25" oil/canvas 2023
$3500
Untitled
24.75 x 25 x 1.3" oil/canvas 2023
$3000
Untitled
30 x 24 x 1.3" oil/canvas 2023
$2500
Larry Graeber - Foil Leaf
examples from the studio
Hiding 25 x 25 x 1" foil leaf, oil, stick, metal tape, foam board 2023 $2500
Here the foil leaf is on top of an oil stick crosshatching that floats over a geometric pattern, over a light blue oil wash that covers the metal tape and foam board.
Inquiries welcome
All Saints Day 38 x 46 x 1.5" foil leaf, paint, felt tip, metal tape, foam board 2023 $4800
In this case foil leaf articulates several subjects over a background of a swirling enamel wash on top of metal tape, and foam board.
Drift 18 x 21 x 1" foil leaf, graphite, metal tape, paint, foam board, wood, 2023 $3000
This example illustrates a method of cutting pieces of the foam board out, foil leafing them and reinstalling. There's also graphite and paint on the surface here generating a sense of subject and motion.
33rd Annual Red Dot
Exhibit and Sale - Contemporary SA
October 6 – January 8
Forest Green 25 x 25 x 1.75" oil, foil leaf, foam board, wood 2022
examples of work going on in the studio
Point 32 x 48 x 1"
oil, foil leaf, metal tape, foam board, wood 2023
Red Island 24.5 x 32.5 x 1"
foil leaf, metal tape, paint, foam board 2023
Bouffant 15 x 13 x 11"
foil leaf, wood, paint 2019 - 23
$3000
Making these pieces with an upcoming Rockport Arts Center show in mind, coming in April and May 2024
Made in Marfa - October 6 and 7
Fri. 10am to 8 pm, Sat. 11am to 4 pm (house & studio)
1508 Fremont, Marfa, Texas
12 x 12 x 2" $1000
foil leaf, felt tip, metal tape
on foam board 2023
West Texas studio
New
painting / sculpture
Blue and Yellow Figure 34 x 28 x 1.25" oil/canvas 2023 $3500
Reflected Light
paintings, sculpture, works on paper
This blurb book illustrates recent exhibit at Flight Gallery. It is viewable via link. Can be a good way to see the show if you didn't have a chance to get by.
Reflected Light
paintings, sculpture, works on paper
Flight Gallery Blue Star Arts Complex August 3 through Sunday, August 27
Marfa paintings
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38 x 46" foil leaf, oil stick, paint, grease pencil,
metal tape, foam board 2023 $4000
Often the term reflected light refers to the objective nature of a returned glare. Here I am conveying two qualities of this expression. Yes, the notion of a returned reflected light as though bouncing off water or some shiny surface. Secondly the reaction of the perceived gaze; the art experience of standing in front of a work and employing an intuitive inquiry, expecting something in return.
Orange Dance
26 x 20" charcoal, pastel, graphite 2019 $700
Supervisor
12 x 12 x 2" foil leaf, felt tip, metal tape
on foam board 2023 $1000
Silver Balance
22 x 17 x 14" foil leaf, paint on wood 2023
Koi Oct. study #6
26 x 20"
oil stick, charcoal, pastel,
grease pencil, collage
2019
$700
Foil
Magical Realism Studio
Lone Star District
Flight
20 x 7 x 9"
wood, paint, foil, leaf
2023
$2000
Flight
20 x 7 x 9"
wood, paint, foil, leaf
2023
Stir 22" x 1.25"
tape, paint, graphite, foil leaf,
oil stick on foam board
2022
$1200
2nd Novel Art Book Fair -
Contemporary at Blue Star May 5, 2023
Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio
Artist books; monographs, zines, and other printed ephemera
Sharon and I are showing:
Orange Bird; my paintings, vignettes by Sharon and myself
handmade books – collage and drawings
blurb books of various subjects; exhibits, paintings, sculpture
Many of these books are available for purchase.
handmade book cover
ISDAY
International Sculpture Day
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Open studio 1 - 4
127 East Wildwood, SA
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This is a fun project: open the studio and house for people to view works I've been making.
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Cabinet Oak Project: an auction, to raise money for the restoration of the Texas White House, and the creation of an artist in residence program at the LBJ National Historic Park.
To support this project you can bid on my piece through the month of April, see following address.
https://cbo.io/bidapp/index.php?slug=cop&sid=b181d1242a80ac8ce44555ba480761b3f2f9fbc6568b154cfe9a915a556ff277
Wading 19 x 12 x 10" Live Oak 2022-23
Never have I carved any wood as hard as this Live Oak.
One of 50 selected by Katie Robinson Curator of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum Austin.
Online Galleries (sales)
Contemporary Art Month / San Antonio
at Blue Star Arts Complex, March 2023
Pop-up exhibit at the Blue Star Arts Complex:
paintings, sculpture and two works on paper 2023
This exhibit illustrates examples of paintings, sculpture and recent foam board pieces, work that began in early spring 2022.
Trunk 23 x 13 x 3" foil leaf, paint, wood 2023
I knew exactly how I wanted to make this piece when I saw the log I retrieved it from.
After removing the bark and exposing the ravage made by woodworms, I simply made a vertical chainsaw slice, foil leafed it and mounted it to a blue block. Its exposure and gnarly branch buds seem to reference an ecological dilemma.
Capsule 24 x 21 x 1.5" felt tip, paint, tape, foil leaf on foam board 2022 $1800
Contained in a red border, this rugged composition of a rectangle and spheres appear to be circulating around a vertical rose pole. Their suspended buoyancy and apparent motion makes their gold environment appear fluid, suggesting illusionary depth. Inquiries - contact me at larrygraeber@icloud.com
Wheel 24 x 24 x .75"
foamboard, tape, paint, metal leaf, oil stick
Referencing and re-referencing a center motivated the approach to this piece. The vortex forms the new center as a reference over the concentric rings. The vortex achieves its highlight by its multi colors, concluding at the bead head of the push pin.
Wrestling
4 x 3 x 2'
cream limestone
1974
Following school I did a series of large scale sculpture, this is one of those pieces. I have recently moved it to the front yard where it looks super. However, it needs a permanent home, maybe you know of such a place.