Ford Crull’s solo exhibition Lost Horizons opens Thurs. May 4, 2023, 6-8pm with a reception for the artist at Georges Berges Gallery, 462 West Broadway, New York. NY.

Ford Crull explores the expressive power of personal and cultural symbols in a series of densely painted and vividly colored compositions. The artist uses identifiable icons such as hearts, wings, crosses, and the human figure, as well as geometrical emblems and abstract forms whose meanings are less explicit. Words, in the form of cryptic, fleeting phrases, animate Crull’s pictorial world. There is a strong element of the diaristic in Crull’s work, allowing each painting to serve as a painterly journal of reflections and reveries set loose from their origins in specific events. In a wider sense, these paintings constitute an intensive search to wrest meaning from an anarchy of feeling. As meditations on emotional chaos, Ford Crull’s paintings enter into a world of competing impulses and simultaneous transmissions, seeking a resolution that is both cathartic and mysterious.

Ford Crull | Lost Horizons is on view from May 4 through May 25, 2023. More info: https://bit.ly/crullberges