Press Coverage
Contemporaneity / March 2021/ Colored Plexiglass: Irving and Aaronel
deRoy Gruber Foundation Gallery
Inaugural Exhibition
The inaugural exhibition of the Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation Gallery showcases kinetic artworks that Aaronel deRoy Gruber created in collaboration with and against the background of a city informed by steel mills, furnaces, and coke-processing plants.
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle / January 2020/ Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation opens new headquarters/gallery
The Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation has announced its new location at the Ice House Studios (100 43rd St., Unit 114, Lawrenceville). Artworks by Pittsburgh-based Jewish artist Aaronel deRoy Gruber (1918-2011) will be exhibited.
NEXTpittsburgh / January 2020 /
New art gallery showcasing the work of Aaronel deRoy Gruber opening this week in Lawrenceville
This week the Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation will open the forest green door of a new gallery and usher visitors through the life and work of the late visionary Pittsburgh artist Aaronel deRoy Gruber.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / January 2020/
Gruber Foundation Holds Public Event in Lawrenceville
Two events will be held next week to inaugurate the new location of the Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation at the Ice House Studios, 100 43rd St., Unit 114, Lawrenceville (15201). Both are free and public.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review / August 2017 /
Silver Eye Center for Photography showcases new space with ‘Past Present Future’
With its bright, new space on Penn Avenue in the Bloomfield-Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Silver Eye Center for Photography is quick to become the crown jewel of the Penn Avenue Arts District.
VOGUE / September 2016 /
SPRING 2017 READY-TO-WEAR: Adam Selman
Why settle for just one great reference when you could have the whole lot? Adam Selman’s long been a bit of a magpie, aesthetically speaking, in recent seasons referencing a ’60s and ’70s nudist colony and, with his ongoing Le Specs collab, creating cat-eye shades inspired by Catherine Deneuve’s pair in The Hunger’s iconic opening.
Interior Design / June 2016 / A New York Doctor’s Office Doubles as a Gallery Showing Sculptures by Aaronel deRoy Gruber
Kinetic and kaleidoscopic, the experimental work of a postwar Pittsburgh artist has come back down to earth. “Aaronel deRoy Gruber—Plexiglas Sculptures From the ’60’s and ’70’s,” organized with the help of the Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation and on view at the New York gallery 57W57Arts through June 9, features pieces in colored and colorless clear acrylic.
Pittsburgh City Paper / May 2013 /
Aaronel deRoy Gruber's Work Gets an Engaging Survey at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Making the road trip to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, in closer-than-I-remembered Greensburg, I expected small sculptures on widely spaced pedestals. Instead, I entered a veritable funhouse, an arcade-like gallery packed with colored Plexiglas and chrome constructions — some kinetic, some illuminated — that were originally futuristic and are now retro, as well.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / April 2013 / Westmoreland Museum Exhibit Illuminates Versatility and Mastery of the Late Aaronel deRoy Gruber
The late Aaronel deRoy Gruber achieved on many levels. During her 61-year artistic career, she explored painting, sculpture, and, finally, photography and video.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review / April 2013 /
Evolution of an Artist: Gruber Moved From Painting to Plexiglas to Photography
The daughter of a prominent dentist, she was born in 1918 and grew to become one of Pittsburgh’s most prolific artists.
Now, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art is celebrating her life and work with the exhibit “Aaronel deRoy Gruber: Art(ist) in Motion.”
Pittsburgh City Paper / July 2011 /
Aaronel deRoy Gruber, 1918-2011
Gruber's work was internationally exhibited, but around here she was perhaps best known not just for her longevity, but for her ability to successfully shift between, and evolve her practice through, different media.