Carlos Grasso

Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Lives and works in Ojai, California.
Studied Music, Graphic Arts and Painting in Buenos Aires, Paris and Los Angeles. Visiting his studio one experiences the broad range of his work: abstract, representational, minimalist, expressionist, monochromatic, colorful... defining him as a visionary and visually insatiable experimental artist. He can be a staunch realistic or an explosive expressionist, a minimalist or a texture explorer. He is not confined to any medium, adapting his methods to his concepts, shifting easily between paint, unconventional materials, mixed media and conceptual work.
Eduardo N. Gomez, Art Critic Nice-France, wrote about Grasso's work: "It’s an adventure to be face to face with a work by Carlos Grasso. It’s never a simple matter and one can’t be certain of the outcome. You may emerge unscathed but definitely not unchanged.
“Nine Statements,” an effective and dangerous work in which a single line draws out unknown feelings like a looking glass in which we read our own reflection. A battlefield on which an ordinary scissor can become a sacred object and res, black and white are far more than neutral colors. These works use us as sounding boards while our eyes wide shut trans...

2017
February - "Make America" show, Gallery 825 - Los Angeles
January - LA ART SHOW - PING-PONG Los Angeles Art Association
January - STARTUP Fair LA - Hollywood, Los ANgeles

2016
September - Building Bridges Gallery at Bergamot Station
September - ART SHARE LA "Terra Firma" Show
July - CALIFORNIA 101, 2016
June - Studio Channel Islands Art Center - "The Next Big Thing"
June - Gallery 825 - "Out There"
May - OCCCA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art - "tXtMe"
May - Buenaventura Gallery, Ventura - "Mixed Media and Collage"
May - Gallery V, Ventura - "Art of the Earth"
May - Gallery 825, Los Angeles - "VS"
April - OJAI VALLEY MUSEUM - "Angles, Best of Ojai Studio Artists"
April - ART SHARE LA "Things Fall Apart" Show - Disintegration, ambiguity, entropy, enigmatic abstraction, cautionary allegory or the drama of distressed surfaces, the work speaks to mortal decay or primordial creation and the liminal moment when meaning does not yet fully exist.
March - Salmagundi Club, New York - 83rd Annual National Juried Exhibition (Hudson Valley Art Association)
January - The Oaks Gallery - Ojai

2015
October 10-11-12 - Ojai Studio Artists Studio Tour, Ojai - California
August 1st - Los Angeles - Gallery 825 (LAA...