“I can’t recall ever having wanted to be anything but an artist. I became a ‘professional’ at the age of 7, when the older kids on the school bus started paying me to draw pictures for them.”
—Larry Gray
During the last 30 years artist Larry Gray has made a name for himself as a nationally recognized painter with almost 60 solo exhibitions across the country, from Seattle to San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta. Gray moved to Pisgah Forest in 1997.
Mr. Gray studied at the University of Georgia and Yale University before becoming a professor at Humboldt State University in California. His work is featured in the permanent collections of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, among others.
Mr. Gray uses oil on canvas as well as pigment powder on paper to create atmospherics dealing with time, light, and space. His work reflects a profound reverence for the natural world, especially the southern highlands where he has made his home for the last 9 years.
He alternates his days between painting and meticulously photographing and cataloging the plant life of a particularly unspoiled area of backcountry in the Blue Ridge accompanied by “Eubie”, his faithful companion of many years.
BIRTHPLACE
Columbia, Tennessee
EDUCATION
Yale University
University of Georgia
TEACHING
1987, 89 California Summer Arts Program
1974 The Evergreen State College Olympia, Wa
1969-76 Hum boldt State University Arcata, Ca
ONE PERSON SHOWS
1991 The Gallery, Three Zero NYC
1989 Trabia Gallery NYC
1989 Gallery 500 Elkins Park, Pa
1987, 91 Harlene and Allen San Francisco, Ca
1987 Phillip Dash Gallery NYC
1986 Sol Del Rio San Antonio, Tx
1986 Adelle M Dallas, Tx
1983 Union League Club Chicago, I1
1979,80, 82,84,85,87,89 Karl Bornstein Gallery Santa Monica, Ca
1979 Getler Pall Saper NYC
1977-79, 81,83, 84,88 Foster White Gallery Seattle, Wa
1977-79 AD1 Gallery San Francisco, Ca
1975 Ina Broerse Amsterdam, Holland
1974 Evergreen College Olympia, Wa
1973 Stanford University Palo Alto, Ca
1969 Yale University New Haven, Ct
1967 University of Georgia Athens, Ga
GROUP SHOWS (Selected)
2004 Trintiy Gallery Atlanta, GA
1999 Trintiy Gallery Atlanta, GA
1990 Woodmere Art Museum Philadelphia, Pa
1990 Denson Sanders Chicago, 11
1989 Richard Green Gallery Los Angeles, Ca
1988 Ruth Seigle Gallery NYC
1985 Humboldt Cultural Center Eureka, Ca
(with Morris Graves)
1982 Whatcorn Museum of History and Art Bellinsham, Wa
1980 International Monetary Fund Washington, D.C.
1980 The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Il
1978 Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY
1978 Tokyo Central Museum of Art Tokyo Japan
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (Selected)
Arizona State University
Oakland Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Laguna Beach Museum of Art
Phoenix Museum of Art
Seattle Musuem of Art
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
The Art Institute of Chicago
Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
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