Baker Artist Portfolios

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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. 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 group shows and her work has been selected 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 is represented in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Europe and the UK. Most recently Ms Gruber was the 2024 Artist in Residence at the International Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory in Bucharest. She is currently an instructor at  the Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute College of Art.