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Mary Crenshaw
Born Richmond,
Virginia, USA
E-mail:
marycrenshaw@marycrenshaw.com
Telephone:
039 0295357250 cell 039 3494449808
Website:
www.marycrenshaw.com
Education:
BFA Painting and
Printmaking,Virginia Commonwealth University,1977.
MFA
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University January 2013.
Solo Shows:
2010:
Celebrating Green, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Arthur DeBerry
Family Gallery.
2008:
Leaves, La Galleria Modena Grazie della Vita, Castello Borromeo, Corneliano
Bertario, Milan.
2006:
Wearable Paintings/Quadri da Indossare A P Sowroom, Milan.
2005: La
Natura e Fibre, Spazio 4, Milan Inside Out,The Jane Sandlin Gallery, Richmond
Virginia.
2003:
Paesaggi, La Galleria, Modena.
2002:
Mary Crenshaw, Castello Borromeo, Corneliano Bertario, Milan.
2000: The
John and Seymour Rennolds Gallery, St.Catherine's School, Richmond Virginia.
1999: American Consulate Milan.
1996:
Galleria Il Punto A Cassano D'Adda, Milan.
1993:
Palazzo Fumagalli,Pozzuolo Martesana, Milan.
1991:
Take a Seat and Look at the Trees, Bloom, Mezzago, Milan.
Group Shows
:
2012: Vasili
Arkhipov: The Man Who Saved the World, Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston
University.
2011: C’è
un Disegno per Milano, Galleria L’Affiche, Milan.
2010:
Leggere non Leggere, Derbylius, Milan Artisti per la Salute, Derbylius.
2009: Art
Below Exhibition, London Underground Open Exhibition, Studio 106, London.
2009:
Food for Thought,The Gallery at Willesden Green.
2009:
London Galleria L'Image, Rome.
2008: In
Città,La Galleria, Modena.
2007: Free, Five Years, London.
2007: 220
Tiny Art Works, City Gallery, Leicester.
2007:
International Fiber Collaborative, Syracuse, New York.
2007:
Post It Show, Another Roadside Attraction, London.
2006:
Peer Esteem, Five Years, London.
2005: La
Neve, Castello Borromeo, Milan.
2003: The
Universe, ADA Gallery, Richmond,Virginia.
1999:
Grand Cru, Galleria L'Affiche, Milan.
1999:
Galerie Image, Vienna.
1999: Il
Cielo,Galleria Il Punto A La Sosta e La Soglia,Villa Daccò, Milan.
1998:
Cento Pulcini di Alda Merini, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Castello Sforzesco, Milan.
1997:
Derbylius, Milan.
1997:
Gira d'Arte,Bloom, Mezzago, Milan.
1996: Gallery artists, Galleria Il Punto A.
1995:
Work on Paper,1708 Gallery, Richmond.
1992:
Bloometrie, Bloom, Mezzago.
1989:
Galleria Schubert, Milan.
1983: The
Figurative Anecdote, ICA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Public Collections:
AON Insurance, Milan.
Comune di
Truccazzano.
Istituto dei Tumori, Milan.
North
Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Commissions:
DeJorio Ltd, Genoa.
Barbati
Legal Studio, Avellino.
Burns
Opticians, Window Installation, London.
Bibliography:
National Print
drawing and Photography Exhibition, fifth annual juried show.
Second
Street gallery, Charlottesville,VA, catalog, Marcia Tucker, juror.
Art Forum
Magazine
Jan 1979 Portraits by Artists Anderson Gallery,Virginia Commonwealth
University, written by
Deborah
Perlberg.
Tredgar
Iron Works Exhibition catalog Richmond VA 1983 introduction Carter Ratcliff.
La
Gazzetta della Martesana
April 24 1993 Mary Crenshaw, Dipinti Ricenti, anonomous.
Catalogo
Generale
edizione Pulcinoelefante Vanni Schwiller Milan 1997.
Il
Corriere della sera
March 1998 Luoghi Immaginati Francesca Lovatelli.
Luoghi
Immaginati
catalog March 1998 essay Stefano Crippa.
Grand Cru
catalog November 1999 essaies Adriano Mei Gentilucci and sergio Vanni.
Mary
Crenshaw Castello Borromeo
2002 catalog essay Maria Fratelli.
Notte
Santa Castello Borromeo
catalog essay Paula Richetti.
Paesaggi
La
Galleria Modena April 2003, essay Valeria Vaccari.
Nature e
Fibre
October 2005 Milan brochure essay Sandra Corona.
Corriere
della Sera
Bari March 16 2006 interview Silvia Viterbo.
Abiti
Dipinti Come Quadri
Vera Magazine June 2006 Fantasie d'Autore Daniela Torcoli.
La
Gazzetta della Martesana
Oct 27 2008 anonymous.
Radar
Magazine Nov 2008 full page article by Bruno Giussani.
Artisti
per la Salute
catalog May 2010 essay Marco Maiocchi.
Professional
Experience:
I have been
painting for a few decades. I have spent the last two years studying for an MFA
degree, which has had a huge influence on my work and way of thinking. My
paintings have been included in one-person and group exhibitions in various
venues in the United States and Europe.
Statement:
My work is made up of a
personal vocabulary of marks, which are loosely based on the constantly evolving
urban landscape. For years, I looked to nature for inspiration-- trees, clouds,
and leaves, and edited out the rest. Now, it is what I previously ignored that
has drawn my interest. The grime and smut of industrial wasteland speak of
society and human presence. Piles of rubble, abandoned tires, construction
machinery, road signs, cracks in the asphalt are what I observe and store in my
subconscious, and later synthesize to record in paint. I pare down elements to
create compositions, not only through the use of color, but by means of the
plasticity of paint and its possibilities of allusion to mass, volume, scale,
surface and form. I employ landscape also as a device for dividing the space. My
intention is not to replicate images, but to represent the indistinct.
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