Barbara Epstein's profile

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Barbara Epstein Gruber's paintings and drawings are about light, color, air, touch and the experience of painting. They are painted directly from life, and they are about looking, about the particular vibration that occurs when one specific color is placed next to another. They speak to the abstract nature of vision, the way our eyes see in pieces of color and shape.

Ms. Gruber studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned her BFA in Painting. She studied in the graduate fine arts program at the University of Pennsylvania and earned her MFA in studio art from Brooklyn College. She was the recipient of a number of graduate and undergraduate scholarships and awards including the Charles Shaw Award for Excellence in Painting. Most recently she was a finalist for the William and Trafford Klots residency in France.

Barbara Epstein Gruber has been featured in numerous one and two man shows and her work has been selected for inclusion in shows on both the national and regional levels by such esteemed jurors as Klauss Kertess of the Whitney Museum, Bernard Chaet, Samuel Hoi, George Gurney of the Smithsonian and Doreen Bolger of the BMA. She has won Best in Show and Honorable Mention awards on both the regional and national level and her work has been featured and noted in local and national publications as diverse as the New York Times Art Review, New American Paintings, The Loudoun Times Mirror, The Baltimore Urbanite, and the covers of the Bluefield Observer and Huntington Arts Review. She is represented in private and corporate collections throughout the United States including collections in Middleburg, VA, Washington, D.C., New York, NY, Madrid, Spain, London, England and the UK. Ms. Gruber is currently an instructor at Stevenson University, the Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work can be seen locally at La Petite Galerie in Annapolis, and by appointment at Oriet's Fine Art. If you attended the 125th Columbus Celebration in Little Italy, you would have found Ms. Gruber on hands and knees, rendering Titian's "Flaying of Marsyas" in pastel on the street in front of Chabad House.

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