m griesgraber

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My art studio / gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the NEONOPOLIS
at the corner of Las Vegas Blvd. and Fremont St. in Downtown Las Vegas

 
 
Neo Action Abstraction Exhibit This exhibit was organized by the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art (SNMFA) and traveled to the Rainforest Art Foundation Gallery in New York (October 14 through Dec. 9, 2011) . it is now on view at the SNMFA and is scheduled for additional exhibits in 2012/13. Six of my abstract works are included in this SNMFA traveling exhibition. It is part of SNMFA’s ART Outreach program along with works by other artists including J. Palermo, Jenik, R. Bailey and M. Tseng Yu, and others. The works are chosen based on their innovative directions in abstract expressionism. Action / Abstraction painting was first expounded by renown art critics Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg in the early 50's, this art form, practiced by Jackson Pollack, Franz Kline, William de Kooning and others was championed as the most significant movement in painting in decades.
ArtSlant 3rd 2011 Showcase Winner 
Big Red - received a Special Recognition Award from Upstream People Gallery. Two other paintings also received special recognition. Click to see them all.
http://www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/gallery/view.asp?RN=17722&XD=12/1/2010&AN=Graham,+Lisa&PREV=17724&NEXT=
Big Red Acrylic on canvas
36” x 36” 2010
Keith Haring Visits van Gogh’s Room Acrylic on canvas 
24” x 30” 2011 
Click Here to See More Art ParodiesMy_Paintings/Pages/Satire_and_Parody.html
This and 20 other Starbucks parodies are available as 24” x 30” oil paintings on canvas, as well as 11” x 14” Giclees on Arches fine art paper
http://www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/gallery/view.asp?RN=17722&XD=12/1/2010&AN=Graham,+Lisa&PREV=17724&NEXT=
International Contemporary Artists Vol II Published in mid- 2011 the book features over two hundred artists from around the world. I’m on page 88. It’s an expensive book. Amazon lists it at $120, but luckily for me I got mine from the publisher.

Starbucks
Parodies

Gauguin Parodies

ArtSlant 4th 2011 Showcase Winner

Epiphany Acrylic on canvas 36” x 48” 2004

Big Wheels II

Acrylic on canvas     

40” x 60”     2006 Given Special  Recognition by the Upstream People Gallery in 2009.

Cafe Starbucks
after Van Gogh’s
Terrace Cafe

Gauguin
in the 21st Century
Several of my Gauguin parody paintings were exhibited in 2009 at the Andrews Art Museum in North Carolina.

The entire Gauguin Series is on exhibition at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art through Sept. 30, 2011.

Two of the paintings, including
“Day of the Trash Gods,” are featured in the hardcover book, Contemporary Masters Vol. III available on Amazon.com.

Homage to de Kooning

Acrylic on canvas     
52” x 42”     2011

De Kooning as Muse 
I met de Kooning through
my college professor, 
Peter Busa, who would 
often spent summers in 
the Hamptons in the 60‘s 
and early 70‘s. One year 
he invited me along and 
during my stay we visited
the Springs and spent 
time with de Kooning at 
his studio. I saw paintings
I would not see again 
until 2011 at the MoMA de Kooning “Retrospective”. Those paintings have had an influence on my work since the first time I saw them.
New Art International Anniversary Edition Annual Published in January 2012 . The 134 page full color book features my work on pagesmy.yahoo.com 22 & 23. It’s not an expensive book. Cover price is $9.95http://my.yahoo.com/shapeimage_11_link_0

The latest in the Crow Series
1 Crow     2 Crows  dyptic 
Acrylic on canvas
12” x  12”     each       2012

More Famous  Parodies

Crow  in the Snow
Acrylic on canvas
16” x  20      2012