Gloria Graham

Gloria Graham (born 1940 in Beaumont, Texas) 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 80's onward, creating works on canvas and wooden panels.

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.

Collector Panza di Biumo has written:

She also has done large works of a similar nature by drawing the molecular structure of things such as salt and quartz on walls.

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.