Carrie Graber (1975) 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.
She graduated with distinction, in the fall of 1997 from Art Center College of Design where she studied with such luminaries as Burne Hogarth, Harry Carmean and Richard Bunkall. Shortly thereafter, she took a position as an artist apprentice with the famous Romantic Impressionist Aldo Luongo. A short year later, Aldo sponsored her to develop a body of her own work. Carrie's first opening was in coastal Cambria, California in 1999, and a success. For the next decade, Carrie traveled the world, showing exquisitely developed oil paintings and charcoal drawings. Her admiration for figure and form, juxtaposed with observations of light and shadow and steeped in a fascination with composition materialized in hundreds of paintings.
Carrie Graber is considered to be among the most talented, exciting and well-collected artists in the market today. With her warm tones and exquisite control of illumination creating a perfect composition of light and contrast, Carrie captures the beauty and subtlety of familiar environments, which are often overlooked. Her soft, realistic but also bold approach warms the viewer's' senses and creates a feeling of intimacy. This is the link between Carrie and one of her main influences, Dutch master painter Vermeer.
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| Ms. Carrie Graber |
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| ... at work! |
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| Polarized and Solarized, 2016 |
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| August in the Desert, 2017 |
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| Bird on a Wire, 2017 |
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| Choices, 2017 |
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| Victorious, 2017 |
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| Night Cap (Swan House), 2018 |
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| Pick Me Up at The Parker, 2018 |
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| The Simple Things, 2018 |
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| Waiting for My Danseur, 2018 |
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| Glass Slivers, 2019 |
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| Gotta Wear Shades, 2018 |
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| Martini Party, 2020 |
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| Cul De Sac Party, 2021 |
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| Flora and Fauna, 2021 |
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| Palm Springs Perspective II, 2021 |
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| What the Future Holds (Sheats-Goldstein Residence), 2021 |
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| Jupiter in Merida, 2023 |
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| Coaster at Dusk, 2024 |
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| The Best Mornings, 2024 |
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| The Cove, 2024 |
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| Cheers to Friends, 2025 |
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| Ginger Blossoms, 2025 |
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| Grab a Hot Slice, 2025 |
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| Poolside, 2025 |
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| Spaces Like Dreams, 2025 |
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| Summer Bathed in Blue, 2025 |
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| The Old Pool, 2025 |
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| Blue Umbrella at the Kaufmann House, 2026 |
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| Sunday Morning, 2026 |
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| The Mixologist, 2025 |
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