BLAIR VAUGHN-GRULER
paintings
Contents Artist statement Large paintings Medium-size paintings Small paintings & works on paper Equal Standing, oil and mixed media on wood on canvas, 60 x 48 x 1.5, $7500 On the cover: Asemic Poetry, oil and mixed media on claybord, 40 x 60 x 2, $6900
Paint is, for me, an ointment, which I use to mediate the space between sets of potentially oppositional considerations, like body and imagination, or past and present. My process is built around process: mark making, repetition, accumulation, erasure, and the viscosity of the paint itself. I am also concerned with my physical relationship to paint, including the motions inherent in the process of mark making and the many references this mark making makes toward writing, indexing, and reading. As the mark making becomes deconstructed into lines, language is referenced, but the meaning is left unclear. This circles around the idea of asemic writing, which utilizes the formal elements and structure of written language, but without the preconceived meaning. In my current work, new meanings can emerge, repeat, and forget themselves back into the paint. I like to think about how the process of compulsive mark making and visual organizing reorganize brain chemistry, in both maker and viewer. The practice of laying down multiple layers of media, drawing between and on the layers, and repeating the procedure, makes physical the thought process itself, as the paint glues ideas and experiences together. This tension between decipherment and embodiment informs and inspires my inquiry. My current work speaks to information overload, organizing and compartmentalizing said information, and making sense of the chaos through visual linguistics. —Blair Vaughn-Gruler, 2019
Large paintings
Flip Side, oil and sharpie on canvas, 60 x 48 x 1.5, $7500
Tetrus oil on wood on canvas 60 x 48 x 1.5, $7500
Magnetic Attraction oil on canvas 60 x 48 x 1.5, $7500
Shadow Patterns oil on canvas 60 x 48 x 1.5, $7500
Butterfly, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 x 1.5, $7500
Inner State Freeway, oil on canvas, 36 x 60 x 1.5, $6500
Medium-size paintings
Noctilucence, oil and mixed media on claybord, 48 x 36 x 2, $5500
Lyrical, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 x 1.5, $5500
How the day goes by, oil and mm on claybord, 48 x 36 x 2, $5500
Downtime, oil and mixed media on claybord, 48 x 36 x 2, $5500
Perspicious, oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 x 1.5, $5500
Edge of Night, oil on canvas, 42 x 28 x 1.5, $3500
All My Tropes, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5, $3800
Quilt, oil and mm on canvas, 36 x 36 x 1.5, $3800 SOLD
Overwriting, oil and multimedia on claybord, 48 x 36 x 2, $5000
Abacus #4, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 x 1.5, $2400
Blueprint, gouache on claybord, 30 x 24 x 2, $2400
Lingo, gouache on claybord, 20 x 16 x 2, $950
Concrete Poetry II, oil on wood on canvas, 30 x 24 x 1.5, $2400
Petticoat, oil on wood on canvas, 28 x 22 x 1, $1900
Small paintings & works on paper
Compartmentalized, oil and mixed media on claybord, 24 x 18 x 2, $1400
Boats and Floaters, mixed media on claybord, 24 x 18 x 2, $1400
Day You Run, Night Runs You, oil and mm on claybord, 24 x 18 x 2, $1400
Morning Paper II, oil and mixed media on claybord, 24 x 18 x 2, $1400
Fascicle, oil on wood on canvas, 24 x 18 x 1.5, $1400
January, oil and mixed media on claybord, 24 x 18 x 2, $1400
Making It Fit, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 x 1.5 $1400
Love Letter, oil and mixed media on claybord, 20 x 16 x 2, $950
Sky Map, oil and mixed media on claybord, 20 x 16 x 2, $950
Thank Goodness, oil and mixed media on claybord, 20 x 16 x 2, $950
Binary, oil and mixed media on claybord, 24 x 18 x 2, $1400
On the Horizon I, gouache, graphite, & oil on claybord, 17 x 13 x 1.5, $750
Emerging Coherence, mixed media on claybord, 16 x 12 x 2, $750
Shingle Painting #58 (diptych) oil on wood on canvas, 10 x 8 each, $750
Shingle Painting #68 (diptych), oil on wood on canvas, 25 x 13 x 1.5, $975 each / $1950 set
Shingle Portrait, oil and nails on paint tubes on panel, 12 x 9.5, $500
Congruence I, oil & mixed media on paper, 15 x 22, $850
Top: Agnes, oil and mixed media on paper, 12 x 9.5, $325 Bottom: Beneath, oil and mixed media on paper, 10 x 14, $400
God’s Plan in Heaven, mixed media on paper, 12 x 16, $650
My World, mixed mediaon paper, 12 x 16, $650
Windows, oil and mixed media on paper, 22 x 14, $850
Top: Organtia II, mixed media on yupo paper, 9 x 12, $350 Bottom: From the Cacophony II, mm on yupo, 9 x 12, $350
On Legs, oil, graphite, and gouache on paper in double-sided plexiglass, 26 x 40.5, $2700
At GVG Contemporary, we exhibit painting, sculpture, fine art furniture, and artist-made jewelry, all of which contribute refined voices to the dynamic conversation of contemporary art. Located on the corner of historic Canyon Road and Delgado Street in Santa Fe, New Mexico, we’re owned by husband-and-wife local artist team, Ernst Gruler and Blair Vaughn-Gruler. For over 10 years, we’ve represented an evolving repertoire of abstract and nonobjective art as well as fun, figurative, and functional sculpture that explore materiality. Our artists are masters in their use of media, from repurposed and forged steel to oil paint, encaustic, concrete, and more. The result is a felt aesthetic, and we take great joy in sharing our carefully curated selection of contemporary art with visitors. View more by Blair Vaughn-Gruler at www.gvgcontemporary.com/artists/blair-vaughn-gruler
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