Photograph of Artist MICHAEL GRIESGRABER
MICHAEL GRIESGRABER
Las Vegas, Nevada - United States



Original Artworks (8)

Michael Griesgraber; X Series 2, 2012, Original Painting Acrylic, 24 x 24 inches. Artwork description: 241     X colorful geometric abstraction    ...
Michael Griesgraber
Original Acrylic Painting, 2012
24 x 24 inches (61.0 x 61.0 cm)
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Michael Griesgraber; X Series 1, 2012, Original Painting Acrylic, 24 x 24 inches. Artwork description: 241    X colorful geometric abstraction   ...
Michael Griesgraber
Original Acrylic Painting, 2012
24 x 24 inches (61.0 x 61.0 cm)
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Michael Griesgraber; X Marks The Square, 2012, Original Painting Acrylic, 48 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241   X colorful geometric abstraction  ...
Michael Griesgraber
Original Acrylic Painting, 2012
48 x 48 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
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Michael Griesgraber; X Diamond, 2012, Original Painting Acrylic, 48 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241  X colorful geometric abstraction ...
Michael Griesgraber
Original Acrylic Painting, 2012
48 x 48 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
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Michael Griesgraber; RedYellowBlue II, 2005, Original Painting Acrylic, 48 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241 Each word appears in the three primary colors while the painting itself is done with only the three primary colors...
Michael Griesgraber
Original Acrylic Painting, 2005
48 x 48 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
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Michael Griesgraber; Aerial III, 2006, Original Painting Acrylic, 40 x 30 inches.
Michael Griesgraber
Original Acrylic Painting, 2006
40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
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Michael Griesgraber; X Marks The Spot II, 2003, Original Painting Acrylic, 48 x 48 inches. Artwork description: 241 One of a series of 48
Michael Griesgraber
Original Acrylic Painting, 2003
48 x 48 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
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Michael Griesgraber; Tut Too, 2003, Original Painting Acrylic, 36 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241 Bright primary colors of red, blue, yellow and greed circle and radiate from a gilded gold face mask. ...
Michael Griesgraber
Original Acrylic Painting, 2003
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
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Artist Statement

In my recent “X Squared” Series I combine vibrant colors with the ideas espoused by the Color Field “school” artists whose paintings are characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. The Color Field movement placed less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favor of an overall consistency of form and process. In this respect the colors are freed from objective context and become the subject itself.

I also find, generally speaking, musical notes and colors have a common attribute. Musical notes are as individual as colors. Both have a primitive charm that flows through the brain to inundate our emotions. Colors, like musical notes, stimulate certain moods. Combinations of colors like music can evoke joy, excitement, fear, anger - any number of emotions - while the used of geometry in my paintings provides balance and stability just as music uses structure to create melody and harmony. It should be obvious that the X Squared Series paintings are more akin to jazz than classical music in their construction and composition.

As the Hans Hofmann wrote, “The world comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it.”

My work is in a number of private collections in the U.S. and Canada and my paintings have been subject to several one man shows and included in many group exhibitions. Awards have been many beginning with a first place in Drawing, 1965 Minnesota Fine Arts Department Annual Exhibition. Most recent works can be seen on my web site: www.mgriesgraber.com
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