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Featured Artist: Harry Gruenert

The Beauty in the Pure Abstraction 

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For more information and to view Harry Gruenert's online gallery, please visit his website:

http://hgwest.com/

email: hg@hgwest.com

Phone: 510.500.1009

 
Harry Gruenert

"See the beauty in the pure abstraction of paintings by El Cerrito artist Harry Gruenert"

~Martha Ross

Diablo Magazine, 2006

Harry Gruenert's passion for surface and color appeals to many enthusiasts of contemporary art. His large and challenging paintings convey his rich sense of the mystery of abstract art and the importance of texture, authenticity and concreteness. His arresting work is gaining growing attention from both collectors and art connoisseurs.

"Harry Gruenert's paintings are both delicate and intelligent," says Downs, the proprietor of the Dezart One Art Gallery in Palm Springs, Calif."  In striking this balance between mind and matter, Gruenert recalls Rothko's grand artistic search."

Gruenert came to painting in mid-life, after years as a master craftsman who worked with wood and finished surfaces. He was born in Germany in 1955 and came to the US in 1983. Gruenert paints primarly on wood panels, which he builds himself.

"Harry's abstract work on panel conveys a vigorous physicality of movement and space under a surface worked to a smooth sophistication," says Meredith Pelino, owner of Artscape Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA.

"I recently purchased two pieces of work by Harry Gruenert for my home in Palm Springs, CA, and I can honestly say that I believe that he is one of the most promising and up- and-coming abstract artists in California. The breadth and depth of his work is amazing and the textual, tonal, and very painterly qualities he employs are quite something to observe. The multiple overlay of colors and very deliberate brush stroke clearly identifes his work. He is clearly influenced by Rothko and other abstractionists of the mid to late 20th Century."
June 2007
Bruce Purdy