Barbara Gruber
Barbara Gruber’s paintings and drawings are about light, color, air, touch and the experience of painting. They are painted directly from life, and they are about looking, about the particular vibration that occurs when one specific color is placed next to another. They speak to the abstract nature of vision, the way our eyes see in pieces of color and shape.
Ms. Gruber studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned her BFA in Painting. She studied in the graduate fine arts program at the University of Pennsylvania and continued on to Brooklyn College where she earned her MFA. She was the recipient of a number of graduate and undergraduate awards including the Charles Shaw Award for Excellence in Painting.
Barbara’s work has been selected for inclusion in juried shows on both the national and regional levels by such esteemed jurors as Klauss Kertess of the Whitney Museum, Bernard Chaet, Samuel Hoi, George Gurney of the Smithsonian and Doreen Bolger of the BMA . She has won Best in Show and Honorable Mention awards on both the regional and national level and her work has been featured and noted in local and national publications as diverse as the New York Times Art Review, New American Paintings, The Baltimore Urbanite, and the covers of the Bluefield Observer and Huntington Arts Review. She is represented in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Europe and the UK. Barbara Gruber is currently an instructor at Stevenson University and the Johns Hopkins University
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