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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.

A central work in this series The Remaining Ones features a lone bison—rendered in graphic detail—set against a fractured turquoise field of collage, color, and fragments of text like: “I see many enemies around and mighty few friends.”. The image evokes themes of survival, displacement, and generational strength. Abstracted pueblo structures at the base anchor the piece in Indigenous heritage and Southwestern geography.

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 reproduction of prehistoric ceramics with major museums to inform this evolving body of work.

Each piece in this series invites the viewer to reflect on what remains—quiet testaments to resilience in a rapidly changing world.