Carrie Graber Painter USA 1975

Having grown up in Southern California, Carrie Graber (USA 1975) found that hot summers and warm glowing colors romanticized their way into her artwork. She is a genre painter of the Southern California contemporary school, whose depictions of light place her in the line of the Luminists. Graber is also in the line of the Hudson River School—19th-century and early 20th-century painters from the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, whose paintings are grounded in capturing the light effects of the sun and nature in dramatic landscapes. Though this movement specialized in anything but genre pictures, Graber mixes this 19th-century fascination with light with her own Pop iconography in the tradition of postmodern hybridizing. Indeed, the light of So-Cal is so different than that of other regions; therefore, Graber does a service to the Luminist and Hudson River School traditions, with her golden-white light of the skies there executed faithfully and fluidly.
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