{{short description|American artist based in New Mexico (born 1940)}} {{about|the American artist born in 1940|the American actress born in 1923|Gloria Grahame}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Gloria Graham | honorific_suffix = | image = GloriaGrahamSITESantaFe1995.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Gloria Graham in 1995 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1940}} | birth_place = Beaumont, Texas | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | alma_mater = Baylor University<br> University of California Berkeley<br>University of Wisconsin | known_for = Sculpture, drawing, mixed media installations | notable_works = | style = | movement = | awards = National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = {{URL|http://www.gloriagraham.info}} | module = }} '''Gloria Graham''' (born 1940) is an American artist based in New Mexico. Her work includes sculpture, painting, and photography.
==Background== Graham received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Baylor University in Waco, Texas (1962) and attended the University of California in Berkeley (1962), as well as the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She then studied sculpture in Paris (1965). She began her artistic career in 1975 with a series of ceramic artifacts and later, in the mid-80s onward, creating works on canvas and wooden panels.<ref>Sguardi sulla Collezione dello Stato del Cantone Ticino 2, 1997</ref>
Her work is often based on science and geometric patterning, such as in a series of line drawings and paintings she did of the atomic structure of various crystals and minerals, which were inspired by the work of the physicist Max Von Laue.<ref>Los Angeles Times, April 15, 1994</ref>
Collector Panza di Biumo has written:
{{blockquote| Gloria Graham's work is inspired to a spiritual research, that openly reveals itself in small-sized paintings.<ref>{{cite web|title=World Contemporary Artists Database|url=http://www.cumoa.org/english/sub.html?pid=150&category=&formtype=view&code=549|website=Chosun University|access-date=2016-03-05|archive-date=2020-03-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325093112/http://www.cumoa.org/english/sub.html?pid=150&category=&formtype=view&code=549|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
She also has done large works of a similar nature by drawing the molecular structure of things such as salt and quartz on walls.
thumb|right|250px|Graham's studio, 2009
More recently, she has become increasingly involved in photography, one of her pieces being an installation project which she did with the artist Allan Graham called "Add-Verse" in which she took photos of twenty-five poets and Allan Graham videotaped their hands/manuscripts, while they read their poetry.
==Materials== thumb|right|250px|Gloria Graham, ''Famine Series'' (detail), 1988, oil on damask napkins over linen covered wooden panels
Though best known for her paintings, Graham has worked in other media. Her earlier work was mostly pottery: urns, cylindrical shapes and round objects.
In the mid-1980s she developed a technique of painting on wooden panels with a mixture of kaolin and hide glue, similar to the method used in the making of Tibetan tankas, which she then drew over with graphite.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Newmann|first1=Dana|title=New Mexico Artists at Work|date=2005|publisher=Museum of New Mexico Press|location=Santa Fe, NM|isbn=0-89013-439-1|page=38}}</ref> Graham has stated however that when she first began using kaolin, that she was unaware of the connection to Tibetan painting.<ref>Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011</ref> Other materials she has used include aluminum, transparent paper, and graphite.<ref>''THE'' magazine, November 2001</ref> In her Famine Series, the flags of eight African countries were painted on used damask napkins, a comment on our relationship to the fed and to the hungry.<ref>The Alcove, Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts brochure, 1988</ref>
==Public collections holding work== * Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gloria Graham |url=https://lannan.org/bios/gloria-graham |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=Lannan Foundation |language=en}}</ref> * The Broida Foundation<ref>{{Cite web |title="3 PM", A Series of New Abstract Photographs by Gloria Graham in Her First Solo Exhibition At David Richard Gallery Opens April 18, 2014 in Santa Fe |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/_3_pm_a_series_of_new_abstract_photographs_by_gloria_graham_in_her_first_solo_exhibition_at_david_richard_gallery_opens_april_18_2014_in_santa_fe/prweb11609100.htm |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=PRWeb |archive-date=2024-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104060649/https://www.prweb.com/releases/_3_pm_a_series_of_new_abstract_photographs_by_gloria_graham_in_her_first_solo_exhibition_at_david_richard_gallery_opens_april_18_2014_in_santa_fe/prweb11609100.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> * Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gloria Graham {{!}} Axis |url=https://whitney.org/collection/works/37772 |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=whitney.org |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811222137/https://whitney.org/collection/works/37772 |url-status=live }}</ref> * Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM * The Lannan Foundation<ref>{{Cite web |title="3 PM", A Series of New Abstract Photographs by Gloria Graham in Her First Solo Exhibition At David Richard Gallery Opens April 18, 2014 in Santa Fe |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/_3_pm_a_series_of_new_abstract_photographs_by_gloria_graham_in_her_first_solo_exhibition_at_david_richard_gallery_opens_april_18_2014_in_santa_fe/prweb11609100.htm |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=PRWeb |archive-date=2024-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104060649/https://www.prweb.com/releases/_3_pm_a_series_of_new_abstract_photographs_by_gloria_graham_in_her_first_solo_exhibition_at_david_richard_gallery_opens_april_18_2014_in_santa_fe/prweb11609100.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> * Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.e-mca.ti.ch/lugano/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultListView/result.t2.artist_list.$TspTitleLink$0.link&sp=10&sp=Sartist&sp=SfilterDefinition&sp=0&sp=2&sp=3&sp=SsimpleList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=17 |title=Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano: Gloria Graham |access-date=2014-05-20 |archive-date=2014-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520220459/http://www.e-mca.ti.ch/lugano/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultListView/result.t2.artist_list.$TspTitleLink$0.link&sp=10&sp=Sartist&sp=SfilterDefinition&sp=0&sp=2&sp=3&sp=SsimpleList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=17 |url-status=live }}</ref> * Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy * Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gloria Graham, Albuquerque, N.M. |url=http://albuquerque.emuseum.com/objects/13427/gloria-graham-albuquerque-nm;jsessionid=FD6E1491FAA2882FFC3AF41EE10FD589 |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=albuquerque.emuseum.com |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811222256/http://albuquerque.emuseum.com/objects/13427/gloria-graham-albuquerque-nm;jsessionid=FD6E1491FAA2882FFC3AF41EE10FD589 |url-status=live }}</ref> * Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX * Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM * North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND * Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM * Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
==Awards== *Asian Cultural Council Grant to Japan<ref name="legacy 108 109">Legacy: The Emily Fischer Landau Collection Exhibition Catalog, New York, New York, 2011, pp 108-109</ref> *Site Santa Fe Award<ref name="legacy 108 109"/>
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==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://www.gloriagraham.net "Gloria Graham official website"] portfolio website of Gloria Graham *[http://www.add-verse.info "Add-Verse"], a poetry, photo and video project done in conjunction with artist Allan Graham
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