Grace Graupe-Pillard

Manipulation Series
Manipulation/Dis-Integration/Displaced” consists of paintings that are the result of eight years of work continuing my interest in the “manipulation” of information. In a world where terrorism, ethnic cleansing, 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 Manipulation / Disintegration/Displaced, this series correlates the displacement of civilians in war-torn countries with a visual disintegration of form, evident in both the creative process and in the final painted product. In each painting, the chaos of cultural disintegration is symbolized by the fragmentation of the picture plane. With repeated editing, I appropriate images from journalistic sources, “blowing apart the reality” of the photograph so that the final result is distilled and disintegrated from its original context, and reduced into unpredictably flatly colored eccentric shapes further emphasizing the fragmentation of form and removal from its original source. The process of translating these manipulated images into oil paintings involves a change in scale, color and texture, reflecting as well, the political "sanitization" of the horrors of war.

 

Born: Manhattan, NY

 

EDUCATION

Music & Art High School - NYC

City College of NY - B.A. Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

City University of NY - Graduate Assistantship-Russian Area Studies

Art Student’s League of NY (George Bridgman Memorial Scholarship - Philip Guston; Juror)

 

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019      Two-Person Exhibition “Exposed”, (curated by Indira Cesarine), The Untitled Space, NYC

2019      VASA online, (curated by Carla Della Beffa,) http://www.vasa-project.com/gallery/graupe-pillard/index.php

2018      Payne Gallery, (curated by Diane Radycki,) Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA (catalog/book)

2015      Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010      Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ (catalogue)

2008      Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ

2008      Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

2007      Wooster Arts Space, NYC, NY

2006      Women’s Media Center (curated by Marcia Yerman), NYC, NY

2006      Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Ill

2005      The Proposition, NYC, NY

2004      Frist Center for Visual Arts (Gordon CAP Gallery), Nashville, Tenn.

2004      WESTNORTH STUDIO, Baltimore, MD.

2000      Donahue/Sosinski Art NYC

1999      Center for Visual Arts, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ

1997      Donahue/Sosinski Art, NYC

1995      Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ (City of Orange Project)

1993      Kean College, Union, NJ (Curated by Eugenie Tsai)

1993      NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ (Catalogue)

1993      NJ Center For The Visual Arts, Summit, NJ (Catalogue)

1993      Klarfeld Perry Gallery, NYC

1992      Port Authority-42nd St. Bus Terminal, NYC (Public Art Project)

1991      Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ

1991      Monmouth College Gallery, West Long Branch, NJ

1990      Sally Hawkins Gallery, NYC

1989      Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC

1987      Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC

1986      Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC

1986      Real Art Ways, Hartford, Ct.

1986      Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.

1985      Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago, Ill.

1984      Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC

1983      Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC

1978      Razor Gallery, NYC

1977      Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ

1976      Razor Gallery, NYC

1974      Razor Gallery, NYC

1974      Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022      “Faces” curated by Hal Bromm, Hal Bromm Gallery, Tribeca, NYC

2022      “True Stories” curated by Indira Cesarine, Untitled Space, Tribeca, NYC

2022      “Magical Thinking - Superstitions and Other Persistent Notions, Heller Museum, NYC, NY

2022      “NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition, ArtWorks, Trenton, NJ

2021.     “Imagined Landscapes”, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2021      “Juden Und Judisches Leben in Rheda” Museum of Rheda Wiedenbruck, Rheda Westphalia, Germany (cat

2021      “Don’t Shut Up,”, cur. Susan Grabel & Stefany Benson, Newhouse Galleries at Snug Harbor, Staten Island

2020      “Remodel/Remake, cur. Amelia Biewald/Jason Clay Lewis Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY

2020      “Abortion Is Normal,” Part 2, cur. by Jasmine Wahi/Rebecca Jampol, Arsenal Gallery, NYC

2020      “Magical Thinking…,” cur. Laura Kruger, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum - HUC, NYC

2020      “What Is Feminism?, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Fleischman Gallery, Washington, DC

2019      “Relative Relations” cur. Laura Kruger, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, NYC

2019      “Go Figure - The Female Gaze,” cur. Hallie Cohen, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC

2019      Painting The Figure Now, cur. Barry Blinderman, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, Wis.

2019      The Center Show 30 Years Later, cur. Richard Morales, LGBTQ Center, NYC

2019      IRL: Investigating Reality, The Untitled Space, Tribeca, NYC

2019      Art On Paper Fair, Pier 36, Booth F07 Solo Impression

2019      I KAN DO DAT, Rush Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA

2019      Seeing The Unseen, Gallery At 14 Maple, cur. Greg Lesche, Morristown, NJ

2019      Something Always Lies Beyond A Wall, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2018      TERRA in-FIRMA, cur. Laura Kruger, HUC-JIR Museum, NYC (cat.)

2018      The River Between Us, SHEN MoCA, cur.Rupert Ravens, Strasburg, VA.(cat.)

2018      One Year of Resistance, cur. by Indra Cesarine, Untitled Space, NYC

2018      Some Familiar Faces, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2017      Home (less), cur.Laura Kruger, HUC_JIR Museum, NYC (cat.) Traveling

2017      Bosom Buddies, cur. Beth Gersh Nesic, SIA Gallery, Peekskill, NY

2017      Me My Selfie And I cur by Rick Krieger/Jim Furlong, Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC

2017      Spring Break Art Show, “Black Mirror” 4 Times Square - curated by Coco Dolle, Milk and Night Curatorial

2016      “Self-Reflection,” cur. by Coco Dolle/ Indira Cesarine, The Untitled Space, Tribeca, NYC

2016      “With Liberty and (in)Justice For All,”cur. Jasmine Wahi/Rebecca Jampol,Project for Empty Space,Newark, NJ

2016       “Paint By Numbers,” cur. by Laura Kruger, Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC(cat.)

2016      “Observation/Reference/Gesture,” cur. Mark Ormond, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota,Fl

2016      “The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Look at Men,” cur. by John Cheim, Cheim & Read, NYC

2016      Women Like Jazz, cur. by Gladys Grauer, Paul Robeson Gallery/Rutgers Univ. Newark, NJ

2015      Power, Protest and Resistance, cur. by Danny Simmons and Oshun Layne, Rush Gallery, NYC

2015     “Evil: A Matter of Intent” cur. by Laura Kruger, Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC(cat.) Traveling Jewish Museum of Florida ( FIU), May 2017

2015      “Art in the Public Eye: What’s All the Fuss: Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ

2015      “Hal Bromm - 40th Anniversary”, Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC

2015      “Going Big,” curated by Susan Carr & Suzan Shutan, Central Booking, Lower East Side, NY

2015      Pervasive Feminisms Curators:Jasmine Wahi & Baxton Alexander, Milk and Night Presents,NYC

2015      “War, Peace And The Just Society,” Cur. David Leidich, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

2014      Solo Impression Booth EAB/FAIR, Chelsea, NYC

2014      “Prologue/Epilogue,” cur. Rebecca Jampol/Jasmine Wahi, The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ

2014      “The Selfie Show,” cur. by Jef Bourgeau, Museum of New Art, Armada Michigan

2014      Aljira at 30, NJ State Museum, cur. Carl Hazlewood & Margaret O’Reilly, Trenton NJ (cat.)

2014      Jersey Women Artists Now: Contemporary Visions, cur. Allison Leigh, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ (catalogue)

2013      ”The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat,” Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC (cat.)

2013      Armory Show, Pier 92 Carl Hammer Gallery, NYC, NY

2013      Portfolio 2013, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Illl.

2013      Editions/Artists” Book Fair, Solo Impression Booth,Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC

2012      “Spectrum of Sexuality,” Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC (cat.) traveling

2012      “Submissions and Transmissions,” Rupert Ravens Contemporary Newark, NJ

2012      “NYC Blues,” 4-person show, Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, Denmark and travelling within Denmark

2011      “Aftermath,” Puffin Cultural Forum, cur. By Merri Milwe, Teaneck, NJ

2011      “Compression/Expansion,” cur. Geoff Delanoy, College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD

2011      Art Chicago – Carl Hammer Booth, Chicago, Ill.

2010      “Fracking: Art and Activism Against the Drill”, Exit Art, NYC

2010      “Outsight Inn,” Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ

 

 

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

2021 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Md. Commissioned portrait of Edith “Edie” Windsor

2004 Big Apple Fest, NYC (2 painted fiberglass sculptures)

2000/14NJ Transit, Hoboken 2nd Street Station, Hoboken, NJ, 9 steel/fiberglass sculptures

1998/99NJ Transit, Matawan Station, Matawan, NJ Porcelain Enamel sculpture

1997/00NJ Transit, Garfield Ave. Sta.,Jersey City, NJ, 5 Sculptures porcelain enamel, Railings/Gate

1996 City of Orange, Orange, NJ , Fabricated in Porcelain Enamel (9 pieces) on a Concrete structure @ 16 ’x 10’ x 3’

1995 Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-CAB, New Brunswick, NJ , Porcelain Enamel (9 pieces)

1992 Port Authority Bus Terminal, NYC - Wonder Women Wall 20’x20’

1988 AT&T, Oakton, VA. - 1 Wall: 10’x44’ (6 Pieces)

1988 AT&T, Liberty Corner, NJ - 1 Wall: 6’x30’ (6 Pieces)

1987 Peat Marwick Main, Montvale, NJ - 1 Wall: 18’x25’ (3 Pieces)

1987 Shearson Lehman -Amer. Express, Tribeca,NYC - 2 walls : 14’x35’ (11 pieces)