Biography
Raised in Springfield, Missouri, Grace grew up drawing and painting and dreamed of being a ‘professional artist’ someday. She graduated from Vassar College with a film degree and set construction experience from working for the school’s drama department. She proceeded to work in prop and set construction for film, and then as a sculptor for Bass Pro Shops, building waterfalls and trees and traveling across the country.
In 2016 she moved to Busan, South Korea to teach English, where she began to exhibit art in earnest with a group called The Exotic Beasts. After a few more years of artist residencies and natural building projects in the States, she returned to Korea in March 2020 -- and then moved back to the States to find and build community. After spending a pandemic year and a half growing her painting business out of Dancing Rabbit ecovillage in rural Missouri, she moved to Twin Oaks community in rural Virginia. She has since landed in Richmond, Virginia.
She paints her collectors’ dreams and dreamscapes. And cats, she paints cats. She incorporates portraits of her collectors into imaginative landscapes. She provides portals, for your wall, into places where wondrous things happen. Her paintings reflect her background in cinema and theater, with an eye for both composition and storytelling. They are realistic but fantastic and they feel magical. They energize a room.
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EDUCATION: Bachelor of Arts in Film Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY May 2011 ___________________________
RESIDENCIES:Art Farm, Marquette, NE, 2 weeks
June 2019
Acrylic works on canvas
Art Farm, Marquette, NE, 6 weeks
June-July 2018
Nightlight #4, miniature set
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GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Formed Gallery, Springfield, MO 2021-2022
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Tactile — Obelisk Home in Springfield, MO
Nov. 2021
Nightlight #6, Miniature set
Red Barn Festival — Kirksville, MO
Oct. 2021
Paintings and prints
I am obsessed / 나는 덕후다 - Sponsored by the Busan Arts Council
Mar. 2018
Acrylic works on canvas
Hidden Desires / 숨겨진 욕망
Nov. 2017
Nightlight #3, miniature set
Daydreaming / 몽상
July 2017
Sculptural pieces/installation
THE FUTURE / 미래
Mar. 2017
Acrylic on canvas
? / Mystery
Dec. 2016
Nightlight #2, miniature set
A Place Called Home: Refugee Benefit Show / 우리가 떠나온 고향
May 2016
Acrylic works on canvas
Creamery Arts Center, Springfield Regional Art Council, Springfield, MO
June 2015
Nightlight #1, miniature set