Hal Bromm
90 West Broadway, 2nd floor
New York, NY, 10007
+1 212-732-6196
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Hal Bromm
90 West Broadway, 2nd floor
New York, NY, 10007
+1 212-732-6196
Gallery Hours:
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Grace Graupe-Pillard b. 1941
Grace Graupe-Pillard (b. 1941, Manhattan, NY) has spent more than five decades making art that, in her own words, “reconciles the personal with the political”. The daughter of German Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution, Graupe-Pillard came of age with an acute awareness of injustice and a deep sensitivity toward those whom governments and societies overlook. Her practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital media, and public installations. According to Graupe-Pillard, feminism has shaped both her artwork and her philosophy of life, anchoring a practice that has consistently centered marginalized subjects, the body, and the political dimensions of oppression. Between 1984 and 1994, she began working with pastel, producing large-scale installations of figures on cutout canvases. She returned to oil painting in the mid-1990s, narrowing from full figures to a more intimate practice of portraiture. After the events of 9/11 and the ensuing geopolitical response, her focus shifted toward the imagery of disintegration, displacement, and conflict that define her most recent paintings – a body of works confronting genocide, environmental collapse, and the precariousness of civilian life among global political conflict. Driven by a particular concern for the dispossessed, the anguish of innocent civilians caught in spirals of violence infuses every aspect of her work.
Graupe-Pillard first showed at Hal Bromm in 1984. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn (2025); the Wiedenbrücke Schule Museum für Kunst in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany (2024); David Richard Gallery, Chelsea (2024); the Payne Gallery at Moravian College, Bethlehem (2018), accompanied by the monograph The World In Which I Walk; Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago; the Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville (2004–05); the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton (1993); and the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit (1993). She has been included in significant group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (Life of the City, 2002); the Museum of Modern Art, Venice (New Drawing in America, 1983); the Newark Museum; the National Academy Museum; Cheim & Read (The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Look at Men, 2016); the Smithsonian Archives of American Art; the Hebrew Union College Museum; and the Drawing Center, New York. Her public commissions include the Wonder Women Wall at the Port Authority Bus Terminal (1992), installations for NJ Transit's Hoboken, Matawan, and Jersey City stations, installations for the Hudson Bergen Light Rail Transit System, a porcelain enamel work for the City of Orange, New Jersey, and a commissioned portrait of Edith Windsor for Johns Hopkins University (2021).
Graupe-Pillard's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, Art News, Art in America, The Village Voice, Arts Magazine, Vice, and Elle; and has been featured in publications including Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust (Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University Press, 1997) and Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust (Monica Bohm-Duchen, 2003). She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1985) and multiple grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (1983, 1993, 2001, 2019). Her work is held in the collections of the Library of Congress; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the Newark Museum; the New Jersey State Museum; the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University; the Montclair Art Museum; the Morris Museum; Hebrew Union College; Johns Hopkins University; the Martin Z. Margulies Warehouse Collection; and the Forbes Collection, among others.
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Le Monde Diplomatique