The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts will host an exhibition of acrylic paintings on canvas that draw inspiration from our urban landscapes by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-born and Clearwater, Florida-based artist, Sue Graef. Sue Graef: Urban Visions will open on Friday, February 14, 2025, and run through Saturday, April 19, 2025, in the Artspace Gallery on the North Las Vegas Campus of the College of Southern Nevada. A very special preview, gallery talk, and opening reception with light refreshments will take place in the gallery on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at 6:00 pm.

Sue Graef was formally educated at Philadelphia College of Art, Tyler School of Art (Temple University), and Clemson University. Graef has exhibited her artwork in the US and abroad including shows at the Chihuly Collection in St. Petersburg (FL), Twisted Track Gallery in Sacramento (CA), Gasparilla Festival of the Arts in Tampa (FL), and District Arts Gallery in Frederick (MD). Her works are in permanent collections at the Haegeumgang Museum of South Korea, Boston Children’s Hospital (MA), and Price Waterhouse Coopers, Tampa (FL). The works of Sue Graef hang in the private homes of over fifty collectors across the US and Europe.

Speaking of her work, Graef says, “my works are vibrant cityscape/urban landscape paintings in acrylic on stretched canvas. They express my vision of the world around me in a light-hearted style. Created with bold composition and brilliant saturated color, my paintings have a unique play on perspective, vanishing points, and depth of field.”

The CSN Artspace Gallery is free, family friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The Artspace Gallery is upstairs above the main entrance lobby on the North Las Vegas campus located at 3200 E. Cheyenne Avenue, one-mile East of I-15 North.