Carrie Graber One-Woman Exhibition

Chloe Gallery

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Carrie Graber One-Woman Exhibition

Chloe Gallery

7 days left

Chloe Gallery San Francisco is proud to present the long anticipated one-person exhibition for California painter, Carrie Graber.
"Her renditions of the world-famous Southern California lifestyle, as Pop art, are gemlike, sexy, and exacting."
Carrie had the pleasure of growing up in Southern California, hot summers and warm glowing colors forever romanticized their way into her work. She is a master genre painter of the Southern California contemporary school, whose depictions of light place her in the line of the Luminists. Graber is also in the line of The Hudson River School – 19th-century and early 20th-century painters from the Northeast and Midwest, whose paintings are grounded in capturing the light effects of the sun and nature in dramatic landscapes. Though this movement specialized in anything but genre pictures, Graber mixes this 19th-century fascination with light with her own Pop iconography in the tradition of post-Modern hybridizing. Indeed, the light of SoCal is so different than that of other regions, Graber does a service to the Luminist and Hudson River traditions, with her golden-white light of the skies there, executed so faithfully and fluidly. To top it off, her renditions of the world-famous Southern California lifestyle, as Pop art, are gemlike, sexy, and exacting.
"Sun's Out"
"Sun's Out" describes the golden white glow in the sky and cool turquoise swimming pools that makes Graber's work shine on canvas. Featuring a slice of Frank Sinatra's Twin Palms Estate, designed by Stewart Williams and located in the Movie Colony neighborhood of Palm Springs. Graber is continually inspired by the mid century architecture and style of the region.
"Sun's Out," original oil on canvas, 36x27" (also available as a limited edition print on canvas)
"The Best Mornings"
Few images are more relaxing than this scene of early morning serenity in the shade with the cool turquoise swimming pool beyond. Carrie Graber's series of stunning and technically complicated paintings of the iconic Stahl House continues with this wonderful and refreshing composition, featuring a floral still life and silver reflections within the landscape.
"The Best Mornings," 28x28" original oil on canvas (Limited edition print also available)
"Meeting at the Elwood"
This painting is an iconic night scene ignited by Carrie Graber's attraction to mid century modern architecture and style in the form of the 1968 Pavelsky Residence by modernist architect Craig Ellwood. This painting was the final work painted just before the opening of Chloe Gallery's biennial Carrie Graber Solo Exhibition, 2024 edition.
"Meeting at the Elwood," original oil on canvas also available as a limited edition print on canvas
"The Cove" at Cataline Island
Graber's work typically features swimming pools, but occasionally we feel the breeze of an ocean view. "The Cove" features an overhead view of morning sunshine and the Pacific Ocean waves at Hamilton Cove, Cataline Island. The artist's treatment of the transitions from turquoise to ultramarine and cobalt of the deeper waters also shimmers with the movement of the water below.
"The Cove" is an original oil painted for Chloe Gallery, also available as a limited edition print.