Louis Graveline

I’m a sculptor, metalsmith, and fine artist living and working in Atlanta, GA.

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Currently, I’m focusing on large-scale soft-pastel drawings. My drawings have always been a blend of abstract shapes and landscape elements, in a loose, impressionistic style.

In my quest to evolve my drawings to a more unique personal message, I’ve begun my latest series, which is my response to the climate crisis. In my view, we must return to living in harmony with nature—not an easy task. To illustrate this point, I am combining disparate elements of realistic imagery and abstract forms in a harmonious setting in which they can live together.

The color palette contrasts bold colors with subdued, earthy tones. Realistically rendered landscapes are contained in an abstract setting that belies their realism, and strong images of fantasy plants and flowers serve as both guardians and observers of the precarious balance between the elements.
It will be a difficult road to improve our relationship with nature. But if we do not, then nature, the most powerful element, will create an environment in which we cannot survive.

As a sculptor, I've been working in steel. My steel pieces are meant to suggest relics with timeless my...

BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art
Concentration in metalsmithing, minor in drawing

Visual Conversations
387 Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Featured sculptor
2022

Reality/Abstraction
Atlanta Artist’s Center, Atlanta, GA.
Reality/Abstraction
Juried show
2022

The Functional Vase Project
SOFA, New York, NY
1998

Food Glorious Food
Artists and Eating
Charles A Wustem Museum of Fine Arts. Racine, WI
1997

Art Bollards in the Park
bronze sculpture commissioned by the Corporation for Olympic Development
Atlanta, GA
1995

Sculptural Objects Fine Art Show
Chicago, IL
1995

Exhibitions in Print
Metalsmithing Magazine
S.N.A.G.
1995

The Banquet, A Celebration of the American Table
American Craft Museum, New York, NY,
1995

Portfolio Show, Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY.
1994

Exhibition in Print, Metalsmith Magazine, S.N.A.G. 1994.
Silver and Gold, Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY. 1994.
Soup Tureens 1993, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. 1993

Governor’s Dinner for the Arts, Grant to fabricate four knives as gifts, Atlanta, GA.
1993

Holloware and Jewelry Show, Weinberg Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
1992