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FORD CRULL: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS

July 30, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Happy Hour Gallery is pleased to present a solo show of paintings by New York City/Woodstock NY-based painter Ford Crull   July 30th – August 9th. Ford Crull’s vibrant and meditative canvases bridge the legacy of Abstract Expressionism together with Symbolism to form entirely unique, narrative canvases imbued with centuries of religion and culture in a spontaneous, constantly evolving visual metaphor. Once completed, his large and small paintings take on a life of their own with the viewer: organic tapestries of oil paint imbued with historical symbols as well as Crull’s own private kinetic and emotive painting. His richly vibrant canvases of deep red and blue oil pigments form an alchemic combination of civilisation’s most important religious and cultural iconography, such as crosses, circles, knots, shields and hearts. These anchors of culture easily float and blend into the beautiful and evocatively pigmented canvas in a conversation with the viewer, creating a dialogue that transcends space and being. Thus, Crull’s paintings exist in their own intentional and spontaneous planes of interpretation, constantly evoking memory and emotion within the bandwidth of each new encounter and interaction with viewers.

About Happy Hour Gallery – Happy Hour Gallery is the Hampton’s newest art gallery, with it’s inaurgural exhibition launch on July 2, 2022. Happy Hour’s main gallery is a unique 1200-squarefoot space with ample natural light. Owner John Andrulis has more than 15 years experience in the gallery business as an owner / director of art galleries in New Hope, PA; Lambertville, NJ and Philadelphia,PA, in addition to working previously as the Director of Chase Edwards Contemporary art gallery in Bridgehampton, NY from 2017 to 2019. Andrulis is also a black & white film photographer who released the art edition run of photography books on the Hamptons titled: Water, Wood, Sand & Stones in addition to nine year book projects titled Philadelphia Documentations and The Jersey Shore Summer.Business partner, Alex Dudelson owns a law firm in Brooklyn, NY and is theAssociate Councel for the New York Policeman Benevolent Association.

ABOUT THE ARTISTFord Crull received his BFA in Painting from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. His solo shows include regular exhibitions at the Andrea Friesen Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho and Seattle,Washington. His group exhibitions include the Montclair Art Museum (NJ),Knoxville Museum of Art (TN), the University of Washington, the University of Oklahoma, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum and the Museo d’Accademia di Belle Arti (Cantazaro, Italy) in addition to the exhibition,  Painting After the Death of Painting  in Moscow, curated by Donald Kuspit. Ford Crull’s paintings are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum and the Dayton Art Institute.

Details

Date:
July 30, 2022
Time:
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Website:
https://happyhourgallery.com/

Organizer

John Mazlich Fine Arts
Phone:
917-373-4550
Email:
john@johnmazlishfineart.com
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Artists
Ford Crull
Curators
John Mazlich
Artwork Medium
Painting

Venue

The Happy Hour Gallery
670 Montauk Highway
Water Mill, NY 11976 United States
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Phone:
845-399-9751
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