Larry Graeber

Because I work from my imagination, I am always looking for information to inform it.

Larry Graeber, a Texas-based artist, considers himself a painter and sculptor. He presently works in San Antonio and Marfa TX studios.
Raised in Austin the oldest of three children, the son of an architect, and homemaker/ volunteer. Larry was always involved in making things: forts, treehouses and down hill coasters. In school it was the industrial arts and architecture classes that peaked his interest, learning to use tools and to draw ideas. Summers were spent working in his grandad's lumber yard, Graeber Lumber.
Thinking he might follow in his dad's footsteps college studies began with architectural intentions. Challenged by academia and dyslexic complications Larry changed direction to studying printmaking, jewelry, painting and sculpture, even a little filmmaking. By his second year he had already found a studio in downtown San Marcos that he devoted to painting.
Graeber began exhibiting in 1971, curated into Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. His first major one person exhibition was in 1974, Works from a Small Duplex, curated by then director John Leeper and hosted by the McNay Art Museum in their upstair...

Two years of college:
Early in my career I intermittently audited classes in sculpture, painting, film, jewelry and printmaking but am otherwise self-taught.

Artist’s Statement: principles of elements - painting, sculpture, work on paper;

After many years of practice I trust a degree of skill and understanding are inherent in me, conveyed and perceived in my paintings, sculpture and works on paper.
Intrigued with approximations and the experience of convergences I find myself at the mercy of my medium, my thoughts and the time at hand. Unfinished work can be revisited and new work can be started. In a given day I may only add to my debris but the engagement has potential and often emerges to fulfill my hope of an intuitive, subjective, coherent product.

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Solo Exhibitions:
2024
Water's Edge, Rockport Center for the Arts, painting, sculpture April 9 - May 26
2023
Reflected Light, Flight Gallery BSAC - paintings, sculpture, works on paper
Foil - foil leaf paintings, sculpture - Magical Realism Studio
2022
International Sculpture Day - open studio, April 30

2018 Silent; Dock Space Gallery, paintings and sculpture, San Antonio TX

2017 - 2018 Assorted Work; Overland Partners, paintings, sculpture, paper works, San Antonio TX

2017
Fiction; Sculpture and Wall Reliefs, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX

Place to Place; exhibition of sculpture, painting, work on paper, catalog - essay Chad Dawkins,
de stijl\Podium for Art, Austin, TX

2016
Principals of Elements, paintings, sculpture, works on paper, Mercury Project, San Antonio TX

2015
Here There, paintings and sculpture, Hunt Gallery, San Antonio Texas

2014
Traces, painting, sculpture and foam board, Houston Baptist University

2013
Paintings and Sculpture, Fact and Fiction, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio TX

2011
Paintings by L...