Grace Graupe-Pillard "Scorched"
Grace Graupe-Pillard "Scorched" 2023
Painting, Oil, and Alkyd on Wood
Dimensions 48 x 36 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes certificate of authenticity.
Grace Graupe Pillard has exhibited her artwork throughout the USA with one-person exhibitions in Hartford, CT., Jackson MS., Chicago Ill., Newark, NJ, in addition showing in NYC at David Richard Gallery, Valentine Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY, The Proposition, Bernice Steinbaum, Donahue/Sosinski, Hal Bromm as well as The Frist Center in Nashville, TN, The NJ State Museum, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, Payne Gallery at Moravian University, Bethlehem PA., Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ., Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, and Wiedenbrucke Schule Museum fur Kunst, Rheda-Wiedenbrucke, Germany.
Grace Graupe Pillard has participated in Group Exhibitions at Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ, Untitled Space, NYC, Arsenal Gallery, NYC, Cheim & Read Gallery, NYC., Ringling Gallery of Art and Design, Sarasota, Fla., Hebrew Union College Bernard Heller Museum, NYC., Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC., P.S. 1, NYC., Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Fl., Indianapolis Museum, Indianapolis, Ind., The Maier Museum, Lynchburg, VA., The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield Ct., The Drawing Center, NYC., The Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ., The National Academy Museum NYC., Editions/Artists' Book Fair, NYC., Puffin Cultural Forum, NJ, Art Chicago, Scope London, Carl Hammer, Chicago, ILL., The Untitled Space, NYC, Rush Arts, Phil. Pa, The Montclair Museum, NJ, Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, Denmark, and Museum of Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Westphalia, German.
Graupe Pillard has also received many grants including four from The NJ State Council on the Arts, and one from The National Endowment for the Arts. She has received Public Art commissions from Shearson Lehman /American Express, AT&T, KPMG, Wonder Woman Wall at The Port Authority Bus Terminal, Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, and the City of Orange, NJ. Commissions from NJ Transit for the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System at Garfield Station in Jersey City, 2nd Street Station in Hoboken, and Aberdeen-Matawan Station in Aberdeen, NJ.
Her work has been written about in The Village Voice, The NY Times, Art News, The Star-Ledger, Newsday, Flash Art, ArtForum, Art in America, Arts, Tema Celeste, The Daily Kos, Vice Creators Project and A Gathering of the Tribes Issue #16.
“I have spent a lifetime making art juxtaposing the personal with the political. My focus is on wars/conflicts documenting global genocide and ethnic cleansing presenting the anguish of innocent civilians caught in a spiral of death and destruction in large-scale “history” paintings. Since 2003, in a world where terrorism and cultural upheaval have dominated the news cycles, I look at the devastating impact of hostilities on the populace correlating the displacement of residents in war-torn countries with a visual dissolution of form fragmenting the picture plane. SCORCHED is the most recent painting addressing these issues.” - Grace Graupe Pillard