LARRY GROFF (JOHN LAWRENCE GROFF)
CONTACT INFORMATIONLarry Groff (aka John Lawrence Groff) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONLarry Groff is a San Diego based landscape and cityscape painter working in a painterly realist style. He moved to the San Diego area from Boston, Massachusetts in August 2007. Larry Groff‘s paintings have been shown in group shows at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA, the Sherry French Gallery in New York City, the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA, the Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, the Massachusetts College of Art, and Boston University. He has had solo shows at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Ma. He is an associate member of the California Art Club and is currently seeking California gallery representation. In addition, he has work in public and corporate collections including the Bank of America (formerly the Bank of Boston) , the University of Massachusetts, Delphi Construction Inc, and in many private collections. Mr. Groff is the recipient of the Yale University School of Art’s Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship and the Massachusetts College of Art’s Donis A. Dondis Scholar Award. He studied painting with two internationally acclaimed realist painters, George Nick and John Moore. Both of these painters have work included in museum collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Larry Groff was born in Charlestown, South Carolina in 1953. He attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Graduated With Distinction in 1988 with a B.F.A. in Painting. He attended the Yale University Summer School of Art and Music in 1986 and received a M.F.A. in Painting from Boston University in 1993. He taught a drawing course at Emmanuel College in Boston in 2000. Larry also writes and runs the Painting Perceptions blog, a commentary blog on perceptual realist painting. Please click here for Information on commissioned work |