QUOTIDIAN: an EXHIBITION of WORK by CAROL CRAWFORD

SEPTEMBER 24^th – OCTOBER 12^th,  2024

Atlantic Gallery is pleased to present “QUOTIDIAN”, a solo exhibition of mixed media constructions by Carol Crawford. Two opening receptions for the artist will be held on Thursday, September 26, from 6-8 pm, and on Saturday, September 28, from 2-5.  The artist will also be present on subsequent Thursday evenings October 1 and October 8, and on Saturdays from 2-5. Carol Crawford will be present to discuss her works informally with visitors on Thursday evenings, 6-8 pm and on Saturday afternoons, 2-4 pm.

ATLANTIC GALLERY is located at 548 West 28th Street in Chelsea, New York 10001.  Gallery hours are Tuesdays-Saturdays, 12-6 pm, and Thursdays 12-8 pm.

Crawford’s work in fine arts draws upon her broad background in documentary painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, art history and theater set design. It is enriched by her work as an interior and environmental designer. Since 1997 she has been principal designer in her own firm, CAROL CRAWFORD ENVIRONMENTS, inc., and is a Licensed New York State Interior Designer and L.E.E.D. AP.

Carol Crawford has frequently written on issues of environmental design and sustainability for newsletters and magazines in her field, and is deeply involved with the arts in Queens. She Has been a Board member of LICA/Long Island City Artists, Inc., a non-profit artists advocacy organization, since 1987., and has taught studio art, art history and design extensively at the college and university level. She has been a faculty member in the Interior Design Department at Stanford University and Foothill College in California, Queens College and Queensborough College in Queens, and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she received her M.S.I.D. in 1995, and taught both graduate and undergraduate courses, emphasizing sustainable design. She also holds a Master’s degree in art history from Columbia University Graduate Faculty of Philosophy. Her thesis was on the symbolism of masks in African Art.

 Her creative work and public art projects have been recognized by numerous grants and awards; and have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the U.S., Canada, Japan and France. She has been a member of Atlantic Gallery since 2008, and designed their new premises in the Arts Landmark Building, 548 West 28th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan, in 2012.

Carol Crawford is an internationally exhibited interdisciplinary artist working in mixed-media, photography, painting, and graphics.   Her work has been exhibited in Japan, France, and the United States.

In addition to earning her BFA at SUNY Buffalo in painting, she holds Master’s degrees from Columbia University in art history, and from Pratt Institute in Interior Design. Crawford has taught both studio art and art history at Stanford University and Foothill College in California, and at Queens College, Queensborough/ CUNY and Pratt Institute in New York. She is an author, arts and design contributor, photographer, interior designer, printmaker and filmmaker and her practice has been featured in the New York Times, Newark Star-Ledger, Asahi Shimbun, INTERVIEW and more. Over the course of her storied art career, she has produced over 35 solo exhibitions and her work is held in international collections across the US, Europe and Japan

“Unlike windows that painters were once advised to emulate with their own frames, these constructions are more like doors through which one can pass to enter the landscapes they contain.” [Arnold Berleant, PhD.: excerpt from his catalog essay for CITY VISIONS, solo exhibition of mixed media constructions, performances and performance installations by Carol Crawford, QCC Gallery, Queensborough Community College, CUNY]

ARTIST’S WEBSITE: http://www.carol-crawford.com