Larry Groff

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Auguries, Solo Exhibition at the Prince Street Gallery

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I am pleased to announce my next solo exhibition in New York City at the Prince Street Gallery, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 – Saturday, June 15, 2019. The artist reception will be on Thursday, May 23 from 5 – 8 pm (530 West 25th Street 4th Floor)

I will be showing paintings made since 2017 but primarily work that reflects the show’s theme, Auguries. These are imagination-based paintings, many which depict forms moving through atmospheric spaces that are influenced from microscope views of sand grains; taking inspiration from the William Blake poem, Auguries of Innocence, “looking at the world through a grain of sand,”

I am putting together a print catalog and will have more information and images coming soon.

Below are a few images that will be in the show.

A Moment of Holding, 20 × 16 inches, Oil on linen, 2019
Earthly Mothers Waiting, 42 × 32 inches, Oil on linen, 2019
Blue Rondo, 16 × 16 inches, Oil on linen, 2018

Painting in the Blue Mountain Juried show

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I am honored to announce that my painting, Imperial Valley Boogie Woogie, was chosen to be a part of the Blue Mountain Gallery Annual Juried show with Elisa Jensen Juror. This is what I had to say about this painting…
Imperial Valley Boogie Woogie, connects the spirit of Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie to Google Earth satellite imagery of Southern California’s Imperial Valley in the Colorado Desert. Here we see the anomalous geometric patterns of agriculture and irrigation at odds with the desert reclamation.

This painting was part of a recent show, a splash quite unnoticed, Salton Sea Paintings, which visually explored the mystery and beauty of California’s largest lake, the Salton (accidental) Sea. Since the early 1900’s agricultural runoff from farms in the Imperial Valley has prevented the Salton Sea from evaporating. However, In January of 2018 due to political decisions, this inflow ceased and will eventually cause the lake to shrink dramatically, seriously threatening the environment for large portions of Southern California.

New painting expresses concern over climate change

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Cathedral of the Dominionists, 36 x 60 inches, oil on linen, 2017

I started working on drawings for this painting after the elections and began painting after Trump’s inauguration. This was a way to express feelings about this disaster of the impending dismantling of our environmental safeguards and actions to prevent climate change.