Project Description
Alan Crockett
Recent one-person exhibitions include 2015: The Space Between, The Art of Alan and Clara Crockett, Southern Ohio Museum of Art; “Howl”, Novella Gallery, NYC, 2014 Made in New York Alan and Clara Crockett, Art Access Gallery, Bexely, OH, 2013; Funnies: Alan Crockett Paintings and Drawings, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH, “New Abstract Work” (4 person show) Art Access Gallery, Bexely, OH. 2012: Clara and Alan Crockett Paintings Drawings and Other Things, Aronoff Art Center, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Alan Crockett, Paintings and Drawings, Art Access Gallery, Bexley, OH. 2011: Ray’s Living Room Gallery, Columbus, OH. 2010: Alan and Clara Crockett, Open Studio, Columbus, OH, Heights Art, Cleveland, OH, Mark Making (a 35 year retrospective) Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, Art Access Gallery, Bexley, OH. 2008: Rosenberg Fine Arts, NYC, (Featured painter for gallery at Palm Beach 3 Art Fair, West Palm Beach, Florida), Art Access Gallery, Bexley, OH. 2006: Art Access Gallery, Bexley, OH, Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR. 2005: Zaks Gallery, Chicago, 2004, Barth Galleries, Columbus, OH. 2002: Gallerie WIJK, Groningen, Holland. 200l: Zak’s Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2000: Barth Galleries, Columbus OH.
Recent group exhibitions include 2015: Mostra Internazionale di Pittura, Matera, Italy; Shangri-La at L.I. C., The Factory, Queens, NY. 2014: Apollonian/Dionysian, the Constraints of Freedom, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA; Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY; 2012: Little Languages/Coded Pictures, Leslie Heller Workspace, New York, NY; Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition Art Access Gallery, Bexely, OH. 2007-8: Celebration of Creativity/ OAC Fellowships 1980-2006, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Riffe Center Gallery, Columbus, OH; Mapping the Terrain, New Directions in Abstract Painting, Southeastern Louisiana Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA. 2005: Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Arts, NYC, Summer Group show; Gallery Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, “15 Year Anniversary Exhibition”; 2005, Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Arts, NYC “Paper Panel Canvas”. 2004: Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2001: Gallerie WIJK, Summer Show, Groningen, and Holland. 2000: Color, Ohio Wesleyan University Gallery, Delaware, OH, Ohio Artists At Roosevelt House, US Ambassador’s Residence, New Delhi, India (1998-2000).
Alan Crockett’s work has been shown throughout the United States and Europe and is in the following public collections: City of San Francisco, Columbus Museum of Art, Hilton Columbus Art Collection at the Downtown Hilton-Columbus Art Hotel.
Crockett’s paintings record deliberate acts. Lines dance, pierce, trace and interrupt; color jumps, cascades and jostles; all invite play and exploration.