BFA, Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, 1972

Exhibitions:

Solo Shows: Bowery Gallery, New York, NY 1974, 1977, 1079, 1981 Piermont Flywheel Gallery 1992, 1994, 1997, 2000 Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY 1978, 1994

Group Shows: Bowery Gallery 1974 - 1981 Cocoran Museum of Art, Landscape in American Art, 1974 America West, Tuscon, AZ 1976 L’Atelier, Piermont, NY, 1990 Piermont Flywheel Gallery, 1992-2007 The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, A Current River View, Hastings, NY 1991 Paramount East Gallery, Water Works, Peekskill, NY 1994 Bowery Gallery, NY, NY, Anniversary Show, 2000 Allen Sheppard Gallery, Landscape of the Lower Hudson Valley, NY, NY,2001

Ms. Grace has been painting the Hudson River and its environs for more than two decades. In the early 1970’s Ms. Grace traveled from her New York studio to paint the old mill buildings that used to populate the shores of the Hudson in Piermont, NY. When the industrial sites were cleared, opening vistas of the Hudson, Ms. Grace’s attention turned to the river, its marshes, it’s expanse. “What interests me in the scenes that I paint is the striking, often startling qualities of the landscape – the fjord that is the Hudson River, with its deep, bright color. It is an ancient scene, but my approach is a modern one, removed from the typical narrative qualities and detail of romantic painting that one associates with this subject because of the legacy of the Hudson River School. These are paintings of the Hudson, here and now, distilled into broad elements, painted with a directness of stroke and color, delivering a sense of the present.”

Ms. Grace currently lives and maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley.