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Artist Statement — Gerry Groeber
Echoes of the Frontier

Echoes of the Frontier represents a new chapter in Gerry Groeber’s practice—one that combines his signature abstract language with powerful narrative imagery rooted in the American West.

Works like The Remaining Ones depict icons such as the bison—rendered in bold, graphic textures—set against layers of collage, color, and fractured text. These compositions explore themes of generational strength, cultural memory, and resilience in the face of ecological and historical displacement.

Though this series moves beyond the mid-century abstract influences Groeber is known for, it retains the strong visual structure, color sensibility, and expressive surface treatments that define his work. Raised in Southern California and now based in Prescott, Arizona, Groeber draws from personal history, regional landscape, and past work in photography with Arizona Highways Magazine and prehistoric ceramics with major museums to inform this evolving body of work.

Echoes of the Frontier invites viewers to reflect not only on what has been lost—but on what continues to endure.