Sue Graef (b. 1957, Philadelphia, PA) is a figurative landscape artist who creates vibrant and imaginative work. Graef was educated at Philadelphia College of Art, Tyler School of Art and Clemson University. The artist has participated in exhibitions at the Chihuly Collection Museum, St. Petersburg, FL; Imagine Museum St. Petersburg, FL; IDEA Museum, Mesa, AZ; District Arts Gallery, Frederick, MD; Art Miami Context, Miami, FL; The Palm Beach Show, FL; Twisted Track Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Tampa, FL; Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY; Affordable Art Fair, Austin, TX; Art Wynwood Miami, FL and the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, NY. In 2025, Graef had her second solo exhibition, Urban Paradise, at The Artspace Gallery in the College of Southern Nevada. This opened with a talk to art students. Graef currently lives and works in Florida.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I create vibrant figurative landscape paintings in acrylic on stretched canvas. Intense, bold and saturated color with dramatic compositions and playfully distorted perspectives make up my work. The patterns, shapes and color are an invitation to travel around the canvas and step into the image.
Painting is an escape from the real world into my own world of imagined urban, suburban and rural scenes. The idea is to make the places, people and things I paint somewhat recognizable, so the looker can relate but to step outside reality into an unusual and extraordinary image. I have an insatiable urge to communicate these images to others and so I continue.