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Sherrard Grauer
Fire in the Morning, 2005
charcoal and acrylic on canvas
48" x 36"
Represented by: The Moore Gallery, Victoria; Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
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A painter for more than four decades, Sherrard Grauer has works in
several public collections including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria, Cambridge University in England and the Canada Council Art Bank. Grauer’s
recent major work is a large relief painting. "It's a hedge," she says,
which she started last winter. "It's a big thing and I have been adding to
it in minute ways. I wish I hadn't started it because I can hardly wait to begin
the companion piece." And what is this new painting that has her itching to get
started? "Another hedge," Grauer laughs. Grauer also sculpts. She says she
works on numerous projects concurrently moving between painting, relief painting and sculpture. “Each
is a physical change from the other and represents a different way of working. Schooled
in Paris and San Francisco from 1958 to 1965, Grauer says she's interested in detail
work. "Light fascinates me. I use relief to reflect it," she adds. She also
describes herself as a figurative painter. "I don't think there is such a
thing as abstract painting. Whatever mark the artist makes has a reference. And the observer
brings his own references to the work." |
