Carl Grauer is a painter based in Poughkeepsie, NY in the beautiful Hudson Valley, currently showing with several galleries including Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY. He primarily works representationally within the concepts of time, space, ritual and mortality.
Born in rural Kansas, Carl Grauer was raised in a town of 800 people and a graduating class of sixteen. He had a great aptitude of studies as well as art from a very young age but with a limited exposure to the arts. Following high school he left to complete his degrees in human biology and his MFA in medical illustration from the University of Kansas and the University of Michigan, respectively.
Eventually moving to New York he found solace in the arts and culture in abundance and committed his life to an authentic pursuit to his passion of art making. He spent two years in London studying figurative and portrait painting with several studios and garnered success showing work nationally and internationally, including exhibiting with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London, being shortlisted for the 2015 Wells Art Contemporary Award in the UK and the Samuel Dorsky Museum in New York.