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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Clara Crockett
ArtistColumbus Ohio 43201 United States
Bio
Clara Lou Crockett
199 E. Northwood Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43201
Telephone (530) 643-0465
E-mail: crockett.4@osu.edu
Education:
1980 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Graduate work in theater
1979 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Graduate work in theater and puppetry
1970 University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore., Graduate work in theater of the avant-garde
1965 University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. BS, Speech and Drama
Fellowships and Grants:
2013 The Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
2008 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2004 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
2000 The Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1997 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1995 Regional Artist’s Grant, Randolph Street Gallery. Chicago
1994 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1991 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, Solo Performance Artist
1988 Professional Development Grant, Ohio Arts Council
1988 Residency Fellowship, Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts. Chester Springs, PA
1987 Hallwall’s Interdisciplinary Project Grant, Hallwall’s Contemporary Arts Center: Interarts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts: and the
Rockefeller Foundation
1984 “Ohio Selections IV”, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
Lectures and Workshops:
Ohio State University Art Department, Columbus, Ohio, 2013, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2001-
1985
Southeastern Louisiana University, 2007
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. 2002, 1992, 1989
Ohio State University Dance Department, Graduate Seminar Lecture. 1995-1989
Ohio State University, College of Education. 1992
Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, Ohio. 1991
Casa Esperanza (Cuban Relocation Program), Columbus, Ohio
Artist-in-Residence. 1988-89
Dance Collective, Columbus, Ohio. 1988
Ohio State University Expanded Arts Program. 1988
“Performance Art from the Sixties to Present”, Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center,
Columbus, Ohio. 1987
Illinois State University, Normal-Bloomington, Illinois. 1987
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. 1991
Southwest Oregon Community College Women’s Conference, Coos Bay, Ore. 1987
Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio. 1986
Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. 1986
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Three person exhibition, “New Work”, Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH
2015 Novella Gallery, “Howl”, New York, NY
Southern Ohio Museum of Art, “The Space Between”, Portsmouth, Oh.
The Drawing Center Viewing Program and Permanent Slide Registry,
(2004) to present), New York City 2014 Art Access Gallery, “Made in New York”, Bexley, Ohio
Painted Bride Art Center, “Apollonian/Dionysian: The Restraints of
Freedom”, Philadelphia, PA
. Columbus Museum of Art,” Greater Columbus Arts Council Visual Arts Exhibition”, Columbus, Ohio 2012 The Weston Art Gallery, Arnoff Center for the Arts. “Paintings, Drawings and Other Things, Works by Alan and Clara Crockett”, Cincinnati, Oh.
The Springfield Museum of Art, “Fine Lines”. Springfield, Ohio
2010 Hopkins Hall, Ohio State University, “Gestures”. Columbus, Ohio
Marion Campus Gallery, Ohio State University, “Gestures”. Columbus, Ohio
2009 Klamath Siskiyou Art Center, “Dog Theatre”.Solo Exhibition, Northern California
2008 Columbus Convention Center, “Art for Life”, Columbus, Ohio
Third Annual Online Visual Artists Registry Juried Show, Columbus, Ohio
2006 Klamath Siskiyou Art Center, “Miniatures”, Northern California 2005 Gallery Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, “15 Year Anniversary Exhibition”, Dresden, Germany
2004 The Columbus College of Art and Design, ‘Art for Life”. Columbus, Ohio
2001 Riffe Gallery, “Coming of Age”, Curator: Kay Koiniinger, Columbus, Ohio
2002 The Ohio Art League Show, Gallery V Award. Juror: Dan Cameron
2000 The Columbus Art Museum. “Art for Life” Juror: Joel Leib
Solo Performances
2008-1997 ¬Alligator Effigy Mound Tour (on going “Restoration Ohio” Project)
Granville, Ohio
1996 I have been a spotted snake upon a hill
“Telling Tales”, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
1995 Lemna Valdiviana
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Ohio Wesleyan College, Delaware, Ohio
1993 Songs
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
1992 Royal Jelly
National Performance Network Conference, Wexner Center
For the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
1991 Venial Sins
ABC No Rio, New York, N.Y.
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
La Mama La Galleria, New York, N.Y.
Acme Art Co., Columbus, Ohio
1991 Royal Jelly
Cleveland Public Theater Performance Festival Art Invitational,
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1990 Venial Sins
Under One Roof, Manhattan Community College, N.Y.
“Dangerous Ideas”
Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, “Mainstream/Hidden
Stream”, Akron, Ohio
Cleveland Public Theater Performance Festival Art Invitational,
Cleveland, Ohio
1989 Peripheries
Cleveland Public Theater Performance Art Festival Invitational
Cleveland, OH
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana
Katz and Dawg, Columbus, Ohio.
1988 Rites of a Sacrificial Dummy
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, Ohio.
Reality Theater, Columbus, Ohio.
C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts,
Yellow Springs, PA.
1988 Stick Dance
Geoffrey Taber Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Cleveland Public Theater Performance Art Festival Invitational
Cleveland, Ohio
1987 Carlotta
Hayes Hall Theater, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Heritage Village, “Regional Performance Showcase”, Columbus,
Southwestern Oregon Community College, Coos Bay, Ore.
1986 Can-Can
Alliance for Dance and Movement Arts, “Choreographer’s
Showcase”, Columbus, Ohio
Hopkins Art Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Opera of Unspeakable Proportions
UCC Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
1985 Ode to Split Woman
Belmont Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Concertina
Alliance for Dance and Movement Arts, “Choreographer’s
Showcase”, Workspace, Columbus, Ohio
I Always Wanted to Join the Circus
Hayes Hall Theater, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1984 A Fable
Hopkins Hall Art Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, “Ohio Selections IV”,
Cleveland, Ohio
Spaces, “Artists Spaces Collaborate”, Photo Documentation,
Cleveland, Ohio
Selected Bibliography
Bremner Ann. “Coming of Age”. Review. Dialogue, Jan/Feb, 2002.
Turner, Tracy Zollinger. “Experience required”. Review. Columbus Alive, Nov.22, 2001
Kohles, Jeanne Fryer. “Exhibit’s dots, spheres, grids blend into brilliant focus.” Review. The Columbus Dispatch. May 2000.
Heisler, Eva. “Telling Tales”. Review. Dialogue, Sept/Oct 1996.
Green, Frank. “Sowing Stories”. Review. The Cleveland Free Times, May 1996.
Romero, Margie. “Artistic Restructuring”. Pittsburgh Weekly, Jan. 1995.
Keener, Anne. “Clara Crockett”. Review. Dialogue, March/April 1989.
Stickney, John. “The Second Annual Performance Art Festival”. Review.
New Art Examiner, Sept 1989
Spetrino, Ellen. “The Second Annual Performance Art Festival”. Review.
Dialogue, July/Aug 1989
Freligh, Rebecca/ “Performance Artist here to unveil latest creation”.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, March, 1989
Seidel, Miriam. “Clara Crockett”. Review. High Performance, Winter 1988.
Brandon, Scott. “Clara Crockett”. Review. Columbus Art, Sept. 1986
Newkirk, Dale. “Play at Work”. Review. Dialogue, July/Aug. 1985
Miller, Gail. “Split Woman….”. Sojourner, Center for Women’s Studies, Ohio State
University, Nov/Dec 1985.
Reverman, Brian. “Modern Magic Clara Crockett”. Review. Columbus Art, Spring 1984.
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
“Not exactly where you would go for a stroll. You don’t feel at home there. You do not expect to discover the truth there: but you do meet lots of entities who are able to undergo metamorphoses, to tell lies, to become jealous or angry: passable gods.”
Jean Francois Lyotard
Lessons in Paganism
To remember silence, to not speak for others while allowing myself the privilege and luxury of simply not speaking, keeping still, I draw, listening as the stories unfold.
Preferring the small, paper provides me with a studio of amazing privacy. I focus the space, play with it, reflect, order, touch, and mark the rhythm of light and dark quality of line, the struggle of definition-refinement and the sureness of the unexpected left untouched.
I think of my drawings as secret worlds where the miniature figures (actual sizes between one to three inches) enact their dramas upon a small stage. The presence of the sensuous body, both human and animal, compose a mediated space which itself emerges to create forms that further define the shifting balance of the drawing. These mesocosms call for the expansion of the minute, which releases their mark from the boundaries of space and reality. There is a silence in these worlds, a sense of the tableau, time stopped, and the moment before.
At times the drawings have tracings of variations of the original figure to arouse movement in unexpected patterns exposing an internal and external viewpoint. The addition of bas-relief using cutouts and string extends the drawing into a real space further emphasizing the physical qualities of the drawing.
The drawing becomes a small stage where the performance evokes unlikely encounters, surprising relationships and tragicomic participation, “uncomfortable little stories” as Lyotard would have it.