Grace Graupe-Pillard

I am an artist interested in social and political issues living in NYC and NJ. In 2003, shortly after the onset of the Iraq War, Grace Graupe-Pillard began working on a series of paintings and photographs entitled DISPLACED and INTERVENTIONS focusing on the horror and human cost of wars being fought in far-off places.

Another series The photographs depict images of soldiers, car-bombings, ruins, explosions, and refugees, which are digitally embedded into the familiar streets and parks of New York City, Baltimore and the New Jersey wetlands. Using the computer and digital filters, the implanted imagery often borders on the abstract, with heightened color and kaleidoscopic patterns portraying the ordinariness of our everyday reality blown apart. INTERVENTIONS attempts to make visually evident the ongoing tragic repercussions of war in our own backyard, as well as the equally powerful manipulation of the electorate through the politics of fear.
In a world where terrorism, and cultural upheaval have dominated the news headlines, these paintings focus on the devastating effect of war and its impact on the civilian population. Entitled DISPLACED, this series correlates the displacement of civilians in war-torn countries with a vi...

Grace Graupe Pillard has exhibited her artwork throughout the USA with one-person exhibitions in Hartford, Ct., Jackson, Miss., Chicago, Ill., Newark, NJ, in addition to NYC at The Proposition, Donahue/Sosinski Art, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Hal Bromm Gallery, Wooster Art Space. She hasalso had one-person exhibitions atThe Frist Center for The Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn., The NJ State Museum andThe NJ Center for Visual Arts. In 2006, she had a one-person exhibit at Carl HammerGallery in Chicago, Payne Gallery at Moravian College, and Rupert Ravens Contemporary in Newark, NJ as well as Rider University, NJ.

Grace Graupe-Pillard has participated in Group Exhibitions at The Noyes Museum, P.S. 1, Bass Museum, Indianapolis Museum, The Maier Museum, The Aldrich Museum, The Drawing Center, The Hunterdon Museum, The National Academy Museum, Editions/Artists’ Book Fair, Hebrew Union College, Puffin Cultural Forum, Art Chicago, Scope London and Kunstpakhuset, Ikast Denmark.

Graupe-Pillard has been the recipient of many grants, including three 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, Peat Marwick, Wond...