Documents
Metadata
CAPF #
2024SGr010
Title
Journey to the Old Star
Creation Date
Creation Year
1988
Description
A dark night sky, acrylic, graphite and ink
Artist
Artist Name
Sherry Grauer
Names aka
Sherrard Grauer
Biography
Sherry Grauer studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and returned to Canada in 1964. She has exhibited in Canada since 1963, as well as England and the United States. Her work is in many public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Churchill College, Cambridge, England, Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada.
Image Dimensions (inches/centimetres)
Image Height (inches)
12.75
Image Width (inches)
9.75
Image Width (centimetres)
24.7
Image Height (centimetres)
32.4
Framed?
Yes
Frame Dimensions (inches/centimetres)
Frame Height (inches)
17.75
Frame Width (inches)
14.75
Acquisition Type
Gift
Essays
Having worked with wire mesh, wood, plaster and canvas, Sherry Grauer is a mixed-media artist known for her paintings, relief paintings and sculptures; and she moves seamlessly between these mediums, often working on numerous projects concurrently. Her work is shaped by both the natural world of the West Coast and the art and urban life of San Francisco and Vancouver.
“I don’t think there is such a thing as abstract painting. Whatever mark the artist makes has a reference. And the observer brings their own references to the work.”
Quote from “Sherrard Grauer, Fall, 2005, The Moore Gallery, Victoria”, Beverly Cramp, Aug 31, 2005, gallerieswest.ca.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions:
2006 - Points of View - The Moore Gallery, Victoria BC
2004 - 2 1/2 Dimensions, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC.
2003 - Second Growth Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver B.C.
2001 - Forest Coast , Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver BC
2001 - Shorelines (II), Churchill College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, (curated by Maria Tippett; catalog)
1997 - Shorelines, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1992 - Meetings, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1989 - Painting and Sculpture, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1987 - Natural Events/Take Off: Point of Departure and Mode of Travel,
Art Gallery of South Okanagan, Penticton, BC (two person show with Carole Sabiston)
Sherry Grauer: Certain Paths, The Floating Curatorial Gallery at Women in Focus, Vancouver, BC (curated by Jill Pollack, Catalog) Recent Works, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1985 - Painting, Drawings, and Sculpture, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1983 - Painting, Drawings, and Sculpture, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1980 - Sherry Grauer, So Far…, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC (Catalog)
1978 - Paintings and Sculptures, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC (Catalog)
1976 - Eleven Drawings, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1975 - Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1973 - Sherry Grauer Instant Prints, Véhicule Art Inc., Montreal, Quebec
Two Person Show, Gallery 217, Bellingham, WA
1970 - Sherry Grauer, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1969 - Sherry Grauer, Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1968 - Oeuvres de Sherry Grauer, Loyola Bonsecours Centre, Montreal, Quebec
1967 - Sherry Grauer and Other People, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1965 - Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1964 - Drawings and Paintings, Mary Frazee Gallery, West Vancouver, BC
Paintings, Gordon Baker Clinic, Seattle, WA
