Ford Crull, submitted artwork
Ford Crull
Painting
New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2025 Crossarts, New York Ilon Art Gallery, New York 2024 Klienart James Art Center, Woodstock, NY Paul Larsen Gallery, Saddle River, NY 2023 Georges Berges Gallery, New York 2021 Tribeca Art Space, NYC, 10007 Mosaic Art Space, Long Island City,, NY 2019 Georges Berges Gallery, New York, NY 2018 Ober Gallery, Kent, Conn. “ Then and Now” Andria Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley , ID Cross Contemporary ART, Saugerties, NY “The Figurative Work” 1974 - 2018 2017 Abmeyer Wood Gallery, “A New Lexicon” Seattle WA 2016 Cross Contemporary ART, Saugerties, NY 2015 Ober Gallery, Kent, CT Carter Burden Gallery, New York 2014 Cross Contemporary ART, Saugerties, NY 2013 Creon Gallery, New York Abmeyer Wood Gallery, Seattle, WA 2012 Andria Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley , ID 2011 Abmeyer Wood Gallery, Seattle, WA Rob Ober Gallery, Kent, CT 2010 Rachel Sheng Gallery, Shanghai, China Bund1919, Shanghai, China 2009 Andria Friesen Gallery, “Le Salon de F. Crull” Sun Valley, ID 2007 Howard Scott Gallery, “Now and Then” New York, NY 2005 Andria Friesen Gallery, “Favela” Seattle, WA Howard Scott Gallery, “Samba” New York, NY 2004 Ulster County College, Visiting Artist, Stone Ridge, NY FosterArt, “Voices” London, England Cheryl Pelavin, “ Horror Vacuii” New York, NY Goya-Girl, Baltimore, MD 2002 Arte 92, Milan, Italy 2001 Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, "Ford Crull, Art Now". Montgomery, Alabam
Works
Ford Crull, submitted artwork
“The ambiguity of the image is central to my expression in art. The derivation of my symbols, pulled out from the oceanic flow of an unconscious, devolved dream state, reflects a necessity for metamorphosis and recombination that deprives the image of any safe haven. Rather, my images are involved in a perpetual dance, a narrative flow that destroys any preconceived notions or verbal meanings. The viewer is free to associate around the visual text which I present, supplying his own interpretations from his own experiences. Ambiguity of the image forces the viewer into a more intensive study of the work, so that the deeper layers of reality are unveiled, revealing the many facets of an idea, the many levels of its nature. This is the real pleasure of my painting: to present a tableau of associations, an unceasing unfolding of meanings, to offer a glimpse of a more universal state of consciousness, unbound by the limitations of time and convention.” There is a strong element of the diarist in the work, with each painting serving as a kind of painterly journal of reflections and reveries, set loose from their origins in specific events. In a wider sense, these paintings constitute a kind of intensive search to wrest meaning from anarchy of feeling. As meditations on emotional chaos, they enter into a world of competing impulses and simultaneous transmissions, seeking a resolution that is both cathartic and mysterious. …other than the purely compositional: on the intuitive (my
