Come visit our new gallery at the corner of Canyon Road and Delgado Street!

241 Delgado Street, Santa Fe NM 87501 | materialityfineart.com | 505-629-3075

Featuring new work by Ernst Gruler and Blair Vaughn-Gruler

GVG studio visits are available at our Rufina Circle location by appointment.

Ernst Gruler

Ernst Gruler grew up building and taking things apart, then refined and expanded those talents to become a furniture artist, welder, and painter. Repurposed steel is the media for a significant body of his current work. The cast-offs of cars, trucks, and farm machinery—plow blades, mesh steel, leaf springs, strut rods—are melded to create new, practical and sculptural objects. His Sound Sculptures, bells made from former pressure canisters, resonate with tones of noble beauty that belie their mundane industrial origins. His new series of sculpture based on repurposed industrial springs incorporate slag glass (a byproduct of commercial glass kilns) and the movement of the springs, inspired by wind or touch.

 

Ernst Gruler’s furniture, sculpture, and paintings exhibit technical mastery, creative design, and artistic excellence. Gruler experiences art as a form of active meditation. When asked how long it takes to make something, he says, “the sum total of my moments in life so far.” Ernst Gruler earned his BFA and MA from Northern Michigan University.

 

He lives in Lamy, New Mexico, and co-owns GVG Contemporary with his wife, painter Blair Vaughn-Gruler.

Browse Available Work

Furniture

Lighting

Sculpture

Sound Sculpture

Bells / Ernst Gruler
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Bells / Ernst Gruler
Bells / Ernst Gruler

Paintings