about the artist
Grace is a painter/fine artist living in San Francisco, California, specializing in graphite and watercolor paintings on a variety of substrates. As an artist constantly examining her past, her works centralizes around themes of nostalgia, memory, wonder, and nature. Grace’s work is about communicating her innate desire to return back to nature, to grasp at the shreds of the sublime, the feeling of experiencing nature for the first time. Her work accomplishes this by exploring the act of remembrance. To re-member something, it must also be dis-membered. Although this is a unique representation of the concept, memory is an essential component of her work. Often referring to her work as the “ghosts of the grass,” Grace pulls from her recollections of the wild coastal landscape of Northern California, the syncopated low country of Georgia, to the vibrant valleys of Provence, France: all of these places united by the impact they’ve had upon her creative journey. By ignoring opportunities for visual reference, she instead allows her visions to be distorted by memory, diluting natural forms into a collection of directional marks and semi-representation forms. She is currently based in San Francisco, California, only a short distance from where she was born. Grace achieved her BFA in Painting at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia (2023).
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Exhibition Experience
SCAD 2023 Senior Showcase, Savannah, Georgia - three sketchbooks accepted, Iteration(s) 1, 2, and 3, for an in-person show in Alexander Hall - Spring 2023.
SCAD Fine Arts Showcase, Savannah, Georgia - two pieces accepted, Bramble & Honeyfur, and Goldenfields, for an in-person show in Alexander Hall - Spring 2023.
Laboratory Conditions: Conventions without Consensus, Savannah, Georgia - one piece accepted, Spectres of the Blue Gramma, for an in-person show (assisted in curation and development) in Alexander Hall - Winter 2023.
Folk Holiday Show, Savannah, Georgia - five works accepted, Coastal Repose, Guest, Advice from the Blackbird, Grounding Practice, and Hold On to What Matters Most for an in-person show in home converted exhibition space - Winter 2022.
Identify Art Show, Savannah, Georgia - four works accepted, On the Edge of Fairyland, Talk with the Blackbird, Of the Monterey Cypress, and Daughter of the Land for in-person and online show at The 5Hundred21 Art Lounge - Fall 2022.
SCAD Day Lacoste Show, Lacoste, France - ten works accepted, Iteration Sketchbooks 1-4, Nature Walk #1-5, and Saignon Foliage Tryptich for in-person show - Summer 2022.
SCAD Spring Forward Show Atlanta - four works accepted, Axis: Bold as Love, Verbena, Kani Kani, and Wishing for Memories for online and on-ground show - Spring 2022.
SketchX22 (2022) - sketchbook accepted and won awards Best in Show (runner up), and Exploration of Techniques - Spring 2022.
SCAD Art Sales Open Studio Fall 2021 - Wishing for Memories accepted online and in on-ground show - Fall 2021.
Art for Abhi (2020) - donated work for auction in an online fundraiser - Fall 2020.
SCAD Foundations Honors Show 2020 - Third Place Color drawing - Spring 2020.