Ernst Gruler has exhibited in Santa Fe since 2008. His metal shop/studio and showrooms are open to the public, and he has extensive experience with commission-based projects in all his genres: fine art furniture, sculpture, lighting and paintings. See more here: http://gvgcontemporary.com/artists/ernst-gruler/
He also exhibits in Arizona at:
https://goldensteinart.com/index.php in Sedona
https://janehamiltonfineart.com/gruler/ in Tucson
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, 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 pressure canisters, resonate with tones of noble beauty that belie their mundane industrial origins (and his fascination with beauty inadvertantly created). His new series of sculptures based on repurposed industrial springs incorporates slag glass (a byproduct of commercial glass kilns), and the movement of the springs, inspired by wind or touch.
Gruler's furniture, sculpture, lighting and paintings exhibit technicall mastery, creative design, and artistic excellence. Gruler experiences art making as a form of meditation. When asked how long it takes him to make something, he says "the sum total of my moments in life so far."
Gruler earned his BFA and MA in furniture design from Northern Michigan University.
He lives in Lamy, New Mexico with his wife , painter Blair Vaughn-Gruler.
This is Ernst's Artist Statement