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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Alan Crockett
Columbus Ohio 43201 United StatesHome Ohio 43201 United States Home Phone: 917-656-5844 Website: alanrcrockett
Bio
199 E. Northwood Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201
Telephone: 917-656-5844
E-mail: alanrcrockett@gmail.com
Web: http://www.alanrcrockett.com
EDUCATION
1971-75 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, BFA, 1973; MFA, 1975
1963-65 University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR, LLB, 1965
1960-63 University of Oregon; BS 1963
1959-60 Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
2016 Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio Nominee with Clara Crockett
2015 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
2013 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Program Fellowship
2004 Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
2002 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
2000 Greater Columbus Art Council, Dresden/Saxony Residency
1996 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1990 The Greater Columbus Art Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1988 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1986 The Greater Columbus Art Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1985 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1984 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1983 National Endowment for the Visual Arts Fellowship/Painting
1982 Ford Foundation Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hilton Columbus Art Collection at the Downtown Hilton- Columbus Art Hotel
Columbus Museum of Art
City of San Francisco
Palazzo Del Annunziata, Matera Italy
SELECTED ONE-TWO-THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Alan Crockett/Clara Crockett/Marti Steffi/ New Work Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH
2016 Alan Crockett, Looney Tunes, 2731 Prospect Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2015 The Space Between/Alan and Clara Crockett, New Work, Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, OH
Howl with Clara Crockett and Alicia Gibson Novella Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Made in New York: Alan and Clara Crockett, Paintings, Drawings and Other things, Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH
2013 Funnies: Alan Crockett Recent Paintings and Drawings Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
2012 Painting Drawing and Other Things: Works by Alan and Clara Crockett Weston Art Gallery at the Aronoff Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Abstraction: Alan Crockett, David Cooke, Sharon Dougherty, Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH.2011 Alan Crockett: New Work, Ray’s Living Room Gallery, Columbus, OH
2010 Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights, OH
2009 Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH
2008 Alan Crockett, Mark Making, A Retrospective, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Oh
Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH
Rosenberg Fine Arts, NY, NY (featured painter for gallery at Palm Beach 3 Art Fair, West
Palm Beach Florida) Catalogue
2006 Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH
2005 Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH
Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland OR
2004 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Barth Galleries, Columbus, OH
2001 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Gallerie WIJK, Groningen, Holland (with Martin Tissing)
Fur Bildende Kunste Dresden (with Clara Crockett)
2000 Barth Galleries, Columbus, OH
1999 Marshal University, Huntington, WV
1999 Barth Galleries, Columbus, OH
1997 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Ohio Wesleyan University Gallery, Delaware, OH
1994 Peabody’s Art Factory, Columbus, OH
1994 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH (3 person show)
1992 Gallery 181, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
1992 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Acme Art Gallery (Invitational) Columbus, OH
1989 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, OH
1987 Arts Center Gallery, College of Du Page, Glenn Elyn, IL
1987 C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (2 person show)
SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH (3 person show)
1986 Belmont Gallery, Columbus, OH
1983 Rike Gallery, The University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 As yet to be titled, 4-person exhibition, NIAD Art Center, Richmond,
CA
2019 New Painting, District Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2017 Its About Abstraction, 6-person show, Art Access Gallery Columbus, OH
Drawn Out, Drawn Over: Mapping the Territory of Experience, Brentwood Arts Exchange,
Brentwood, MD
2015 Art Beyond Category, 15 Contemporary Artists, Matera, Italy (September 2015)
A Century of Ohio Watercolor Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, OH
Shangri La, The Factory, Long Island City, NY
Heroes Satellite Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2014 Apollonian/Dionysian: The Restraints of Freedom, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA.
2014 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation: Open Studios Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Little Languages/Coded Pictures Leslie Heller Workspace, New York, NY
2010 Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition Art Access Gallery, Bexely, OH
2008 Celebration of Creativity: OAC Fellowships 1980-2006, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2007 Mapping the Terrain, New Directions in Abstract Painting Southeastern Louisiana Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA (Catalogue)
2007 Celebration of Creativity: OAC Fellowships 1980-2005, Riffe Center Gallery, Columbus, OH, Kay Koeninger, Dennis Harrington, Kitty Zurko, co-curators
2005 Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Arts, New York NY, Summer Group Show
2005 Gallery Kunsthaus Raskolnikow “15th Anniversary Exhibition”, Dresden, Germany
2005 Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Arts, “Panel, Paper, Canvas” New York, NY
2004 Zaks Gallery, “Gallery Artists”, Chicago, IL
2003 Barth Galleries, Columbus OH
2001 Gallerie WIJK (Summer Show) Groningen, Holland
2000 Color, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
1998-0 Ohio Artists at Roosevelt House, U.S. Ambassador’s Residence, New Delhi, India
1997 Barth Galleries, Cleveland, OH
1993 6-Person Inaugural Show, Peabody’s Art Factory, Columbus, OH
Spiritual Concerns in Contemporary Art, Lee Hall Gallery, Northern Michigan, Univ., Marquette, MI
1991 The Painter’s Eye, Ft. Hayes Visual Arts Center, Columbus, OH
1991 Overseas Trade Office Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Ohio/USA, Butler Institute of American Art
GCAC Individual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Vern Riffe Center Gallery, Columbus, OH
Ohio Painters, Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery, Bloomington, IN
1990 A Vision of Their Own, Roberta Kuhn Gallery, Columbus, OH
Gallery Artists, Gallery 200, Columbus, OH
The Artist at Mid Career, a Dialogue Between Cincinnati and Columbus, Katz &
Dawgs Gallery, Columbus, OH
1985-90 Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL. Zaks Gallery
1989 Retrospective/Introspection, Gund Gallery, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
Survey, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
All Ohio, Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
1986 Ten Painters, Dennison University, Granville, OH
1985 Inaugural Exhibition, Belmont Gallery, Columbus, OH
Artist’s Space Collaborate, The New Harmony Gallery, New Harmony, IN
Detroit FOCUS Gallery, Detroit, MI
SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Contemporary Art, l985, Oglebay Institute, Oglebay Park, Wheeling WV.
Holiday Invitational, A.I.R, New York, NY
1984 Critic’s Choice, 7 from Columbus, Hoyt Sherman Gallery, OSU, Columbus, OH
Barbara Haskell, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, juror
1983 Canton Art Institute All Ohio Show, Canton, OH
Invitational ’83, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, TX
1982 Invitational ’82, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, TX
1981 The Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
Invitational ’81, Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, TX
1980 Oregon State University Gallery, Corvallis, OR
1978 Artists of Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Eccentric Abstractions, Open Gallery, Eugene, OR
TEACHING
2013 September 2008 to 2913 Emeritus Associate Professor of Art, OSU
2008 September 1986 to 2008 Associate Professor of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2000-06 Assistant Professor of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2007 Juror, Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Panel
Visiting Artist, Southeastern Louisiana University
1992 Visiting Artist, Art Academy, Tilburg, Holland
1990 Visiting Artist, Minerva Academy of Art, Groningen, Holland
1989 Visiting Artist-Critic, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
1987 Visiting Artist, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
1983 Visiting Artist, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
1979-80 Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
1978-79 Visiting Studio Instructor, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
40 Contemporary Artists, 2017, pp7, 54,55
Artists to Artists, Volume 2 (2002-2016 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
Art Beyond Categories 14 Contemporary Artists, Catalogue: Carol Heft and Pino Nicoletti
Los Vegas Weekly: “Art Exhibit Satellite Contemporary’s ‘Hero’s’ Taps Into Art Mentors From Around The World”, March, 2015
Gorky’s Granddaughter, Vimeo Interview, October 5, 2014
Dayton City Paper, “ Remembering the Funnies”, by Kate E. Lore, April 30, 2013
Columbus Dispatch, “Abstracts manifest exuberance” by Jacqueline Hall, April 13, 2008
Design Basics, Seventh Edition 2008, color print of painting, Doodle de Do
Columbus Dispatch, “Intriguing pieces delight both eye and brain,” by Jacqueline Hall,
April, 17,2005
Chicago Tribune, Alan Crockett at Sonia Zaks Gallery by Alan G. Artner, Tribune art critic, Published December 3, 2004
Design Basics, Sixth Edition 2004, color print of painting, Funny Farm. 1997, p60
2002/THE YEAR IN REVIEW/ Best Exhibits, Columbus Dispatch, December 29,2002
GCAC artists in residence presents: Alan Crockett, Deliberate Spontaneity, video. 2002
Kohles, Jeanne Fryer, Columbus Dispatch, May 5,2002; “…Works of Great Energy”
Catalogue, Artist Exchange, Free State of Saxony (Dresden)- Columbus, OH, 2002
Kohles, Jeanne Fryer, Columbus Dispatch, March 5, 2000. Illus.
Hall, Jacqueline, “For at least one painter, beauty still reigns,” Columbus Dispatch, April 20,1997. Illus.
Catalogue, GCAC Individual Artist Fellowships l986-1998
1998, Catalogue, Ohio Artists at Roosevelt House, U.S. Ambassador’s Residence, New Delhi, India
Hummer, Tracey, “Colorful party lanterns dominate playful series’”, Columbus Dispatch
Litt, Steven, “A Breath of Abstract Life”, Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 1993.
Kohles, Jeanne Fryer, “Alan Crockett, Acme Art Co.” New Art Examiner, January 1991,p 44. Illus.
DePasquale, Susan, Curator, Catalogue, Ohio/USA 1991, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Griffith, Denny, “A Vision of Their Own”, Dialogue, Jan/Feb 1991
Farmer, Jane, Curator, Catalogue, 1990 GCAC Individual Artists Exhibition in the Visual Arts, Riffe Center Gallery, 1990
Bremner, Ann, New Art Examiner, February 1989,p59. Illus
Constable, Lesley, “Vibrant”, Columbus Dispatch, June 12, 1988. Illus.
Culliman, Helen, “Facts Spark Fantasy for Art”, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 4, 1987
Hall, Jacqueline, “Artists Serve Up Art With Wit”, Columbus Dispatch, May 25, 1986 Illus.
Hall, Jacqueline, “Physical Paintings Throb at Belmont”, Columbus Dispatch, May 25, 1986
Bloomfield, Maureen, “Sacred Landscapes: The Encounter and After, Dialogue, May/June 1985, pp 66-69. Illus
In the Arts, October 1985,”Interview: Alan Crockett”. Cover and illus. pp18-20
Miro, Marsha, “Ohio Sends Its Best Work to Visit”, Detroit Free Press, May 5, 1985. Illus.
Colby, Joy, “Alternative Space Work Hits the Road”, The Detroit News, April 28, 1985
Hall, Jacqueline, “Crockett Demands Attention for Bold Contemporary Works”, Columbus Dispatch, 1982
Thornburn, Ray, Columbus Art, Vol. 2, No.1, fall 1981. Cover, pp17-18. Illus.
Thornburn, Ray, Columbus Art, Vol. 1, No. 13, November 1980
SELECTED LECTURES
Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, Visiting Artist talk. 2007
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH, Art and Ideas Gallery Talk on “Landscape Confection”, 2005
Kenyon University, Gambier, OH, 2002
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH “On Color.”2000
Marshal University, Huntington, WV, 1999
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, 1995, “Party Favors and Paint”
Academy of Art, Tilburg, Holland, 1993
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1991
Minerva Academy of Art, Groningen, Holland, 1990
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1989
Columbus Museum of Art, 1989
Illinois State University, 1987
College of Du Page, Glenn Elyn, IL, 1987
The University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 1983
“My Art and Influences,” KLCC-TV, Eugene, OR, 1978
Artist Statement
I am seeking to find the means to outline the outrageous, the horrific, grotesque,
exaggerated, and comedic-all in one. To explore the montage of line, color,
space, form-destruction, construction, renewal; of seeing afresh, mark, shape, form,
color; all in an effort to bring figuration to the point of being nearly recognizable, then let it hang, undefined. What will happen if I allow remnants of stories, pushed together, to create new meanings, ask new questions and confuse, distort and acknowledge an uncertain narrative? One doesn’t know what it is but one knows its there.
My intention is to rediscover the unique, varied and at times
diffuse ways that I have approached art-making in such a way that a new and unexpected
body of work can emerge. I hope to make unrestrained and ultimately unknowable
work, filled with scale shifts, reversals, doings and undoings that undermine and
challenge know ability; work verging on the readable only to become an enigma, posing
rather than answering questions.
I am allowing what I find to “hang out,” to allow it to be both wise and dumb and I am
looking forward to seeing where this all goes as I return to the studio to actualize my discoveries through work.