TECHNOBABBLE BLUE

Solo Exhibition | Paul Michael Graves

On View

Installation view

About the Exhibition

CBCA is proud to present Technobabble Blue, a solo exhibition featuring a new collection of oil paintings by Paul Michael Graves. Technobabble Blue explores the concept of contrast through Graves’s choice of color and creative process, considering dichotomies such light and dark, frenzy and calm, and technology and humanity.

Graves begins his exploration of contrast through his selective color pallet, composing the entire collection in two shades of blue: rich indigo and

Tessa Rosenstein
Curator | Exhibitions Manager, CBCA
December 2024

A Focus on Patterns

About Paul Michael Graves

Paul Michael Graves began his art practice as an abstract oil painter while serving in the US Air Force as an officer and helicopter pilot flying and commanding special operations missions. Later, while studying architecture at Columbia University, Paul received formal training to channel his artistic voice and analytical strength into artistic expression.

His ‘technobabble’ linework derives from his left-brained backgrounds of mathematics, aviation, and architecture. He plays with pattern, repetition, and basic geometry to represent an abstract diagrammatic language. His paintings quote graffiti and pop art of the 1980’s while commenting on technology’s ever-increasing influence on contemporary culture. Paul’s art resembles circuity, machines, maps, or formulas, inviting the viewer into an endless world of algorithm.

Artwork

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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CXXV," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CXXVI," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLIV," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CXXIII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CXXVII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CXXVIII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLIII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CXXX," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLIX," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CXXXI," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CXXIX," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLVI," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLVII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLXI," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLX," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLVIII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLXIV," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLXIII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLXII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLXV," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLXVI," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLXVII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves
Paul Michael Graves, "Fig. CLXVIII," oil on canvas
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Paul Michael Graves