Alan Crockett

My Paintings: With these rather large paintings I have created work that allows me to submit to the wonder of where the act of painting may take me. In process, the paintings proceed by shifting between accidental incident and deliberate delineation allowing pretty much everything done on the painting to be challenged, erased, revised, re-iterated; lines dance, pierce, trace, interrupt, inviting play and exploration, a version of hide and seek, while revealing the process of the paintings making and forming a symbiotic relationship between drawing and painting. The colors, marks, shapes, often somewhat hidden rectangles like cartoon cels, that ensue mark time, map or excavate space; they record and reflect the body's presence/absence as tracings of what has been made, unmade and re-made. The narrative possibility of mark making becomes compelling and yet, with this work, it's meaning is withheld or remains uncertain or unclear. I bring the work to a state of "pre-figuration" perhaps a place that allows for hidden secrets, forgotten memories and in-expressible sensations.

Likewise, these paintings explore the zany spirit and palette of newspaper "funnies" as well as the challenges of abstract painting. Exaggerated contours...

B.S. University of Oregon, 1962; JD University of Oregon School of Law, 1965; B,F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, 1973; M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, 1975

Alan Crockett has exhibited his work extensively in the US.He has exhibited in Groningen, Holland, Dresden Germany, and Matera, Italy. He is represented by Art Access Gallery, Bexley,OH.