Ford Crull, whose work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum, exhibits his latest paintings, encaustics and mixed-media drawings throughout the month of September. Included in this show is Ford Crull’s poignant encaustic series, White Rose, dedicated to the German student resistance movement against the Nazis during WWII. According to ArtNews critic Eleanor Heartney, Ford Crull’s paintings are “powerful, deeply felt” and convey a “genuine sense of mystery and wonder”. According to Mr. Crull “This mystery is where I find the real pleasure in painting. There is a beauty, simplicity and elegance in symbols, especially ones that are historically and culturally used over and over and often in different contexts with different meanings.”
Although based in New York City, Mr. Crull has long maintained a studio in Willow where many of the current artworks in the upcoming exhibit have been created. Gallery director Jen Dragon describes Mr. Crull’s exhibit at Cross Contemporary Art as an “important exhibition of a modern symbolist. Although internationally known and NYC-based, Ford Crull has always maintained a studio in the Hudson Valley and derives much of his creative energy from the quietude of the Catskills forests, mountains and streams.”
FORD CRULL
258 Broadway 3E, New York, N.Y. 10007
www.fordcrull.com
EDUCATION:
1976 B.F.A. Painting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2015 Carter Burden Gallery, New York
2014 Cross Contemporary ART, Saugerties, NY
2013 Creon Gallery, New York
Abmeyer Wood Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Andria Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley , ID
2011 Abmeyer Wood Gallery, Seattle, WA
Rob Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
2010 Rachel Sheng Gallery, Shanghai, China
Bund1919, Shanghai, China
2009 Andria Friesen Gallery, “Le Salon de F. Crull” Sun Valley, ID
2007 Howard Scott Gallery, “Now and Then” New York, NY
2005 Andria Friesen Gallery, “Favela” Seattle, WA
Howard Scott Gallery, “Samba” New York, NY
2004 Ulster County College, Visiting Artist, Stone Ridge, NY
FosterArt, “Voices” London, England
Cheryl Pelavin, “ Horror Vacuii” New York, NY
Goya-Girl, Baltimore, MD
2002 Arte 92, Milan, Italy
2001 Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, “Ford Crull, Art Now”. Montgomery, Alabama
Aurobora Press, “Monoprints”, San Francisco, CA
1998 M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
Andria Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Lafayette College, “Works on Paper 1980–1996“, Easton, PA
1996 M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Han Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
1995 Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL. “Le Fin de Millenaire”
1994 Aurobora Press, “Monotypes”, San Francisco, CA.
M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Davidson College, “Work From the Eighties”, Davidson, N.C.
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle,WA
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Galerie Michel Bigué, Montreal, Canada
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
1990 M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1989 Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
1988 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
G. H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1987 Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Pelavin Editions Gallery, New York, NY
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Vox Populi Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Pictogram Gallery, New York, NY
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Vox Populi Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Pictogram Gallery, New York, NY
Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1980 Tom Luttrell Gallery, San Francisco, CA1979
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2015 “Shifting Ecologies 2” Athens Cultural Center, Athens NY
2014 Roger Smith Hotel: Ford Crull and Peggy Cyphers, New York, NY
“Shifting Ecologies” The Painting Center, NY
“Metaglyphic”, Elena Ab Gallery, New York, NY
2012 SPAF, “Blue”. Saugerties, NY
2011 JPMorgan NY. “Loft in the Red Zone”, September. NYC
Rob Ober Gallery, “So Zik!”, Kent, CT
2010 Andria Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2009 Andria Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008–
2010 Your Documents Please” April 4- 20 2008 The Museum of Arts & Crafts-ITAMI2-5-28,
Miyanomae, Itami-shi HYOGO 6640895 JAPAN 2007
Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe
2007 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, NY
Contemporary Art Projects, London
2005 Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2004 The Armory, “Works on Paper” , New York, NY
2003 FosterArt, “ Atlantic”. London, England
Howl Art Festival. “It’s Alive” East Village, New York, NY
Friesen Gallery. “Medium Rare”, Sun Valley, ID
2002 The Ralls Collection. “America”. Washington, DC
Kleinart Arts Center. “Artists Choose Artists”. Woodstock, NY
2001 Zimmerli Art Museum, “ Confrontations”, Rutgers University, NJ
2000 University of Washington. “ 4 x 4, Four Decades of School of Art Alumni Exhibit. Seattle, WA
Friesen Gallery. New Work, Sun Valley, ID
1999 Montclair Art Museum, “Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America.” May-August
Knoxville Museum of Art, September-January 2000
1998 Pelavin Fine Art, “Spring Show.” New York, NY
Klienart Center, “Space” Woodstock, NY
1997 Galerie Liga Nieuw Beelden, ” OVEREENKOMST”, Leiden, Holland
Elena Zang Gallery, “Flowers” Woodstock, NY
1996 The Ralls Collection, ” Intimate Objects” Washington, D.C.
Fatouhi/Cramer Gallery, “By the Sea” New York, NY
1995 University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Museum of Art, “The Stephane Janssen
Collection of Contemporary American and European Art”, Oklahoma City
1994 Galeria de Arte,” U.S.A. Within Limits”, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lakeview Museum, “Illinois Connection”, Peoria, Illinois
Virginia Miller Gallery, “Varied Visions”, Coral Gables Florida
1993 The Drawing Center, “The Return of the Cadavre Exquis”, New York, NY
1994 Exhibition Schedule:
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Art Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Venice Biennale, “Xenographia – Nomadic Wall”, Venice, Italy
Champion Gallery, “All That Glitters”, Stamford CT
Fay Gold Gallery, “Works on Paper”, Atlanta, GA
1992 The Armory, “Works on Paper”, New York, NY
The Gallery, “Apocalypse and Resurrection”, New York, NY
M-13 Gallery, “Ceramics”, New York, NY
Michel Bigue Gallery, “Masters of the 20th Century”, Montreal, Canada
1991 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Zimmerli Art Museum, “Intaglio Printing in the 1980‘s, NJ
University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, “Imagery Series Collection”,
Rohnert Park, CA
Lorence Monk Gallery, “Black & White Prints”, New York, NY
1990 Museum of Fine Arts, “The Unique Print”, Boston, MA
Haggerty Museum, “Contemporary Visions of Death”, Milwaukee, WI
Zimmerli Art Museum, “Surface Printing in the 1980‘s from the Rutgers Archives”,
New Brunswick, NJ
1989 Kuznetsky Most,”Painting Beyond the Death of Painting” Moscow, Soviet Union
Wilson Art Center, “Past Tense”, Contemporary American Landscapists, Rochester, NY
North Carolina Museum of Art, “Imprimatur”, Raleigh, NC
Bumpershoot, “Decade of Abstraction” Seattle, WA
Park Avenue Synagogue, “Art”, New York, NY
1988 Adelphi University Manhattan Center Gallery, “Downtown Perspectives”, NewYork,NY
Rhode Island School of Design Museum “New Visions of the Apocalypse” Providence,RI
Center on Contemporary Art, “Seattle: Before and After”, Seattle, WA
1987 M-13 Gallery, “LUST”, New York, NY
Fay Gold Gallery, “Anniversary”, Atlanta, GA
Dalsheimer Gallery, “Paper”, Baltimore, MD
1986 Linda Farris Gallery, “Large Works on Paper”, Seattle, WA
Brooklyn Museum, “Print Biennial”, New York. NYArt Jonction, Nice, France
FORUM, Zurich, Switzerland
Moos Art Gallery, “New York”, Miami, FL
1985 Museo d’Accademia di Bella Arti, “East Village Show”, Catanzaro, Italy
Centre Saidye Bronfman, “East Village Galleries”, Montreal, Canada
Center for Contemporary Art, “New Talent/New York”, East Hampton, NY
Jay Gallery, “The Animal Within”, New York, NY
1984 California Book Works, Otis-Parsons, Los Angeles, CA
Vox Populi, “If Culture Means Anything”, New York, NY
Pan Arts Gallery, “Art & Ego”, New York, NY
Kamikaze Club, “Non-Context”, New York, NY
Art Central, Seattle, WA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Boise Art Museum, ID
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Bund 1919,shanghai, China
Cedars- Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
Champion Paper, Inc.
Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, New York, NY
Citicorp Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Coca Cola, Atlanta, GA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Expedia Corp. Seattle
Hallmark Corp. Kansas City
Amerada Hess, New York, NY
The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis TN
J.P. Morgan & Co., New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, NY
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Otis Elevator, San Francisco, CA
Prudential Insurance Company, New York, NY
Security Pacific Bank, Seattle, WA
Sun Bank, FL
United Parcel Service, Atlanta, GA
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
US West, Seattle, WA
Valley National Bank of Arizona
Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Seattle, WA
Washington State Art in New State Buildings Program, Kitsap County
Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
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ART PERFORMANCES:
2010 Bund1919 Shanghai. “East /West”. June 14
2011 “Fierce and Delicate, the brief history of a painting”. Radar, Seattle. August 27
2012 Woodstock Film Festival. Special art performance. SPAF, October 12
