Grace Graupe-Pillard
I continue to investigate my body as I have done over the years, despite the fact that the aging torso is considered by many to be “invisible” and unpalatable. The painting Crouching Grace as a Blond depicts me naked as a bewigged blonde (a symbol of desire) with scars from two knee replacements, fists up — old enough to be on Medicare, unafraid to reveal my body, long after society has given up on it. I am defiant — my persona will not be silenced. I can still “dance and shout” audaciously challenging others to pigeon-hole this septuagenarian.
Born in NYC, Grace Graupe-Pillard is a painter, public artist, educator, videographer and writer about art and movies. Her focus has been on “the world in which she walks.”
Exhibitions include one-person shows at Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago Ill., The Proposition, NYC, Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC, Bernice Steinbaum, NYC, and Moravian College, Bethlehem PA. Graupe-Pillard has participated in group exhibitions at Cheim & Read Gallery, NYC, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ, P.S.1, NYC, The Drawing Center, NYC, Untitled Space, NYC, and The Frist Center, Nashville,TN. Photos and videos have been presented at Scope Miami, Scope London, Art Chicago, Cologne OFF, Graf & Zyx, etc. Her bibliography includes: NY Times, Village voice, The Daily Beast, ArtForum, Art in America, Art News, FlashArt, Yale University Radio Interview WYBC. On-line articles in Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Vice Creator’s Project, Art Net Magazine, and Women’s Voices for Change, etc.
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