About Me
                                                              steven graber                                                               

Artist Statement

       ”I try to convey an inner peace and harmony by creating a world made of light and mood - one that is timeless and deeply personal; where imagination is free and boundless; where the sanctity of the individual soul is cherished and preserved, untouched by outside judgment or desecrated by society's labels.”

Biography

1950   Born in Newton, Kansas                                                                                              
1972   BA in History, University of Redlands, California
1970   Sabbatical, Salzburg, Austria


SELECTED SHOWS:
Solo Exhibitions:

  • 2006

    • Wichita Art Museum, Regions of Illusion: The Drawings of Steven Graber,  Wichita, KS

    • Bryant Galleries, New Orleans 

  • 2003

    • David Findlay Jr. Fine Art Gallery, Recent Work, New York

  • 2002

    • David Findlay Jr. Fine Art Gallery, Latitude of Dreams, New York

    • Bryant Galleries, New Works, New Orleans

    • Hackett-Freedman Gallery, Recent Works, San Francisco

  • 1999

    • Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

  • 1998

    • Bryant Galleries, Recent Works, New Orleans, LA

    • Leapingotis Fine Art Gallery, Vail, CO

  • 1997

    • Bryant Galleries, New Orleans, LA

  • 1996

    • Leapingotis Fine Art Gallery, Vail, CO

    • Horwitch Newman Gallery, Recent Landscapes, Scottsdale, AZ

  • 1995

    • Leapingotis Fine Art Gallery, Vail CO

    • Horwitch Newman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

    • Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, MD

  • 1994

    • Bryant Galleries, Jackson, MS


Two Person Exhibitions

  • 2007

    • Klaudia Marr Gallery, New Drawings, Santa Fe

    2004

    • Klaudia Marr Gallery, Sanctity and Desire, Santa Fe

  • 2000

    • Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Works on Mylar, San Francisco

    • Blue Heron Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

  • 1999

    • MB Modern, Recent Works, New York, NY

    • Blue Heron Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

  • 1998

    • MB Modern, Recent Works, New York, NY

  • 1997

    • South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Compelling Realism, South Bend, IN

  • 1996

    • Horwitch Newman Gallery, Recent Landscapes, Scottsdale, AZ

  • 1995

    • Horwitch Newman Gallery, Recent Works, Scottsdale, AZ

Group Exhibitions:

  • 2010

    • Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Richly Pigmented, Manhattan, KS

  • 2007

    • Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Kansas Masters Invitational, Manhattan, KS

    • William Baczek Fine Arts, 2007 Landscape Exhibition, Northampton, MA

    • Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Beyond Mimesis, Manhattan, KS

    • Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Realism Exhibition, Manhattan, KS

  • 2006

    • Klaudia Marr Gallery, Tapestries, Santa Fe

    • Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Figurative Exhibition, Manhattan, KS

    • William Baczek Fine Arts, 2006 Landscape Exhibition, Northampton, MA

  • 2005

    • Lawrence Arts Center, Figures: Paintings and Drawings, Lawrence, KS

    • Bryant Galleries, New Orleans - Jazz Fest 2005 Group Show

    • William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA - Annual Landscape Exhibition

    • American Landscapes Exhibit 2005, Annapolis, MD - Group Show

    • Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe - 12th Annual Realism Exhibition - Group Show

  • 2004

    • Klaudia Marr Gallery, 11th Annual Realism Invitational, Santa Fe

  • 2003

    • Wm. Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

  • 2002

    • Great River Arts Institute, "The American River", Walpole, New Hampshire

  • 2000

    • Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Second Annual Realism Invitational, San Francisco, CA

  • 1999

    • Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Small Works Show, San Francisco MB Modern, Central Park, NY

    • Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Realism Meets Abstraction, San Francisco, CA

    • MB Modern, Figure In/Figure Out, New York, NY

    • Hemphill Fine Arts, Our Good Earth - The landscape at the End of the Century, Washington, DC

    • MD Modern, The Figure, Houston, TX

    • South Bend Regional Museum of Art, New Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, South Bend, IN

    • Arnot Art Museum, Re-presenting Representation IV, Elmira, NY

    • National Western, Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, Denver, CO

  • 1998

    • MD Modern, Small Works Exhibition, Houston, TX

    • Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, A View from Within: Still Lifes and Interiors, Los Angeles, CA

    • Butler Institute of American Art, Midyear Exhibition, Youngstown, OH

  • 1997

    • Jerry Solomon Gallery, First LA Exhibition of MB Modern, Los Angeles, CA

    • Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne Collects, Fort Wayne, IN

    • MB Modern, Paperworks, New York, NY

  • 1996

    • Jerry Solomon Gallery, An L. A. Premiere, Los Angeles, CA

  • 1995

    • Horwitch Newman Gallery, Points of View, Scottsdale, AZ

    • South Bend/Notre Dame Art Exhibit, Getting Real: Realism in America,  South Bend, IN

  • 1994

    • Riverside Art Museum, Landscape Exhibit, Riverside, CA

    • Louis Newman Galleries, Contemporary Perspectives II, Beverly Hills, CA

Magazines and Catalogs

  • American Artist Drawing Magazine, Winter 2007,  "Water: An Elemental Subject"

  • New American Paintings, November 2001, Juried Exhibition in Print - Number 36

  • Southwest Art Magazine, March 2001, "Mysteries and Possibilities", Gussie Fauntleroy

  • International Artist Magazine, Fall Issue 2000

  • Second Annual Realism Invitational, February 2000, Jenkins Johnson Gallery

  • re-presenting REPRESENTATION IV, October 1999, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

  • Who's Who in American Art, August 1999

  • American Artist Magazine, January 1999

  • Art-Talk, February 1998

  • Southwest Art Magazine, February 1998, “Best of the West, Black and White Drama”, Kristin Bucher

  • Colorado Expression, Winter 1996, New West Publishing, Inc

  • Getting Real: 20th Century American Realism from the Philip Desind Collection, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, 1994

  • Mobile Bay Monthly, September 1989, “Steve Graber: A Local Artist with National Exposure”, Adrian C. Hoff

Museum & Corporate Collections

  • Wichita Art Museum - Wichita, KS

  • The Columbus Museum - Columbus, Georgia

  • Cleveland Museum of Art - Cleveland, OH

  • Arkansas Arts Center Foundation - Little Rock, AR

  • Arnot Art Museum - Elmira, NY

  • Arkansas Art Center Little Rock, AR

  • Reading Public Museum - West Reading, PA

  • Butler Institute of American Art - Youngstown, OH

  • South Bend Regional Art Museum - South Bend, IN

  • Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College - Grinnell, IA

  • Disney World Productions - Orlando, FL

  • State of Alabama - Montgomery, AL

  • Fine Arts Museum of the South - Mobile, AL

  • Union League Club of Chicago - Chicago, IL

  • County of Palm Beach - West Palm Beach, FL

  • Tuscaloosa Arts Council - Tuscaloosa, AL

  • Eager Enterprises, Inc. - Chicago, IL

  • Emprise Bank - Wichita, KS

  • Spencer Museum of Art - Lawrence, KS