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Paul Graubard
Box 634 Lenox Massachusetts 01240
Studio: 413 499 3928 Home: 413 637 3432
www.paulgraubard.com
paulgraubard@verizon.net
Solo Exhibits
Williams College, Jewish Center, Williamstown, MA 2007
Church St. Art Gallery, Lenox, MA 2006
Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA 2004
Selected Group Exhibits
2005-2007
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Church Street Art Gallery , Lenox, MA
Storefront Artist Projects, Pittsfield, MA
The Outsiders, Cornwall Bridge, CT
Galerie Bonheur, St. Louis, MO (work exhibited at Intuit, Chicago, IL and Outsider Art Fair, NY)
2002-2004
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, MA
Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, N.Y.
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA
Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA
Boreas Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, New York
Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
The Zetter Collection, Carlsbad, CA
The Outsiders Gallery, Cornwall Bridge, CT
Grants and Awards
Artist of the Month -- Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA - June 2004
Residency, Sanskriti Foundation, Delhi, India - January 2004
Residency, Vermont Studio Center - January 2000
In the permanent collection of:
Sanskriti Foundation, Delhi, India
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Bio
Paul Graubard was born in Elizabeth, N.J. in 1932 and grew up in Passaic, N.J., a mill town 15 miles from New York City and 50 years behind the times. He spent his early school years reading, doodling and playing hooky and dropped out in the 10th grade to hitchhike around the country. After taking a high school equivalency exam, he went to college, married, and settled down in New York City to raise a family. He worked as a teacher, professor, and a psychologist, always finding work that gave him the autonomy he craved. His eldest daughter’s untimely death from cancer hit him hard, setting off a period of too much drinking and smoking. On a whim, and maybe out of desperation, he started to draw. Two years later he discovered painting, gave up his practice as a psychologist and has been working full time as a painter since then. He believes that stumbling on art saved his well-being if not his life. He now lives in Lenox, MA with his wife Karen.
Artist's Statement
Romania, Romania, a Yiddish song extolling wine, women, song and food, was my Romanian-born father’s favorite. I heard it sung often as a child and loved its zest. When I paint and get lucky, that spirit overtakes me. Like dance and music, painting requires rhythm and flow, movement, action and tension. I work to make my paintings twirl and surprise.
There is a Chassidic belief that one can thank the Lord for the gift of life and its bounties by singing, dancing and engaging in joyful creation. This philosophy is a guiding force behind my paintings. My work comes out of a need to celebrate life. This in turn is inspired by my experience of marriage, the Sabbath and Festivals. The spirit is universal.
Childhood memories and fantasies often underlie my paintings. As a child I was enchanted by folk and fairy tales. As a teacher of young children I used this material extensively. Now, as a painter I often work with folk themes be they from the Bible or stories like Paul Bunyan.
On a trip to India I encountered carnival scenes in which the array of color was extraordinary. Since then, color has taken on new dimensions for me and has led to new explorations -- a process that will likely last a lifetime.
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