Blair Vaughn-Gruler | GVG Contemporary | fall 2017 Drafting | oil and mixed media on claybord | 40 x 60 | $6900
Overwriting | oil and mixed media on claybord | 36 x 48 | $5000
Entropy | oil and sharpie on canvas | 30 x 48 | $4500
Urban Bardos | oil and mixed media on claybord | 40 x 60 | $7000
Something About a Boat | oil and mixed media on canvas | 48 x 60 | $8500
Penmanship | oil on canvas | 84 x 58 | $15,000
Ramble | oil on canvas | 30 x 48 | $4200
Yarrow Stalks | oil on canvas | 84 x 58 | $15,000
Edge of Night | oil on canvas | 28 x 42 | $3500
Mediation | oil on canvas | 430 x 40 | $3600
Interlock | oil on canvas | 36 x 24 | $2600
Electricity | oil and mixed media on claybord | 30 x 24 | $2200
Path of Totality | oil and graphite on claybord | 40 x 30 | $3600
Blair Vaughn-Gruler approaches the ideas of space and geometry through large-scale, monochromatic, structural paintings, which contemplate the relationship of the physical body to the painted object. Vaughn-Gruler’s images subvert rather than build upon geometry, exploring the materiality of paint and the structure of paint as it exists when applied to a surface: “My visual vocabulary includes references to structure, repetition, deconstructed geometry, and the physical qualities of the paint itself.”
“My practice is built around process; mark making, repetition, accumulation, erasure and the viscosity of the paint itself. I’m also concerned with my physical relationship to paint, including the motions inherent in the process of mark making. The pictorial imagery arises from the concept of subjectivity, suggesting geometry, architecture, scaffolding and ruins. This imagery can also become deconstructed into lines or marks, which emerge, repeat, and forget themselves back into the paint. Expressive (and imaginary) geometry is further explored in the built infrastructure of the Shingle Paintings. These dimensional pieces are another way I like to think about how paint glues ideas and experiences together. The repetitive practice of laying down multiple layers of media, sometimes drawing between the layers, and repeating the procedure, makes physical the thought process itself. The tension between decipherment and embodiment informs and inspires my practice.” She earned an MFA in Visual Art in 2010 from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a BFA in Painting in 1979 from Northern Michigan University. She lives in Lamy, New Mexico and co-owns GVG Contemporary with her husband, Ernst Gruler.
Reticulation | oil and graphite on claybord | 20 x 16 | $950
(from left to right): If I Could | oil, graphite, and acrylic on claybord | 12 x 9 | $600 In the Rug | oil and mixed media on claybord | 12 x 9 | $600
Ghost Writing I & II (diptych) | oil and mixed media on claybord | 20 x 16 x 2 each side
(from left to right): Data Points | oil and mixed media on canvas | 20 x 16 | $950 Circle Fitting | oil on wood on canvas | 20 x 16 | $950
(from left to right): Kairos | oil and mixed media on yupo on canvas | 12 x 9 | $450 Chronos | oil and mixed media on yupo on canvas | 12 x 9 | $450 Plethora | oil on cardboard on canvas | 12 x 9 | $450 $1200 for set of 3
Twill I & II | mixed media on claybord | 12 x 6 | $500 ea or $900 set of 2
Blue Shingle Painting | oil on wood on canvas | 24 x 20 | $1500
Shingle Painting #69 | oil on wood on canvas | 36 x 24 | $2600
Shingle Painting #68 (diptych) | oil on wood on canvas | 25 x 13 each side | $975 ea or $1950 for set
Accumulation Series | oil on wood on canvas | 6 x 6 | $295 ea, set of 18 $4500
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