HOLLY CRATTY FINE ART
Holly Cratty, image, copyright 2009
Artist's Statement:
I have no lengthy artist statement for my work as a whole. I have not created one at this point for two somewhat related reasons: 1) my statements are written specifically for a given series, 2) as I grow and change as a person, so does my art.
Selected Biographical Information
Current Galleries:
A Gallery Fine Art
73-956 El
Palm Desert
(760) 346-8885
http://www.agalleryfineart.com/homepage.html
Blue Sky Gallery
21
(707) 456-9025
Butters Gallery
520 N.W.
Second Floor
(800) 544-9171
http://www.buttersgallery.com/Artists.cfm
Stellers
Gallery
240 A1A North
(904) 544-9171
http://www.stellersgallery.com/Artists/AllArtists.asp
1661 Botelho Drive
Suite 110
(925) 935-4311
http://www.valleyartgallery.org/home.htm
Westside Renaissance Gallery
1003 W Clay St.
Ukiah, CA 95482
http://www.artcenterukiah.org/weblog/welcome.html
Works presented at these galleries can only be purchased directly through the
gallery. Other works can be purchased by contacting me directly using the
e-mail contact at the bottom of the home page of this site. (If you are
interested in a particular work, let me know and I can point you to the correct
source.) A catalogue of the works included in my June - July 2003 show at Blue
Sky Gallery is also available to interested parties. It includes very high
quality reproductions of those works, which provide a much improved sense of
the work relative to web images. However, as my works tend to be dense, layered
and subtle, an in person viewing is recommended.
Education:
B.A. Philosophy, UC Berkeley, 1986
M.A. Philosophy, San Francisco State University, 1990
MFA John F. Kennedy University, 1999
Awards:
The Susan Seddon Boulet
Fellowship Award, 2000
Media:
March 30, 2008: Guest for a one hour segment of "Ask the Buddhist
Nun: Perspectives and Talk from a Spiritual Vantage Point" on KMEC-LP
Radio
TV broadcast coverage of Valley Art Gallery exhibition (July - September 2001), covered by Gloria Brown Brobeck
Publications:
- Portland Monthly Magazine, July 2008 "West Coast-inspired acrylic paintings
put a spiritual twist on old-world Impressionism..."
- 2005 Florence Biennale, exhibition catalogue
- 05 Art For Life, Cascade AIDS Project, auction catalogue, 4/9/05
-
A catalogue featuring 20 new paintings with text by curator James D. Campbell
was published on the event of the June-July 2003 exhibition at Blue Sky
Gallery,
Ongoing Exhibitions: See
galleries above.
Selected Past Exhibitions:
July 2008: Exhibit Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
June-July 2008: Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Group Exhibit. In Focus: Northwest Galleries at SAM
June 2007: Solo exhibit at Tierra Art and Wine Garden in Ukiah in June.
March 2007: Five works are included in the March show at Butters Gallery, Portland
2005 Florence Biennale, December 3-11, 2005, Florence, Italy
Blue Sky Gallery, Two-person show (with
photographer Jon Klein), October 2005,
Group Show, Mendocino Art Center, awarded honorable mention
in a juried exhibition, January
6th - February 27th, 2005, reception January 8th 5-8 pm., Mendocino, CA, 707-937-5818.
Butters Gallery, Holly Cratty Exhibit,
http://www.buttersgallery.com/pieces.cfm?ExhibitID=76&ArtistNumber=7432
2004 National Orange Exhibit, juried exhibition, Opening
Stellers Gallery, New Artists Exhibit, Spring 2004. For works to be included see: http://www.stellersgallery.com/Artists/ArtistPortfolioO.asp?artistID=33&O=1&R=0
Solo show at Blue Sky Gallery,
Group Show, Mendocino Art Center, juried exhibition, February 8th - February 22nd, 2003, Mendocino, CA, 707-937-5818.
Group Show (Juried), "Scapes, Land - Sea -
Mind", Sebastopol Center for the Arts, November - December 2001
Two Person Show, Valley Art Gallery, July - September 2001
Group Show (Juried) Willits Center for the Arts, July - September 2001
Group Show (Juried), Sebastopol Center for the Arts, April - May 2001
Solo show, selected paintings, Mendocino Book Store, Ukiah, CA, November 2000
- February 2001
Group show, John F. Kennedy University, Graduate Exhibition 2000, June 2000
Solo show, MFA Graduate Exhibition, "Trees and Rhizomes", John F.
Kennedy University, December 1999
Hybrid: A Time-Based Art Festival Cross-Pollinating Interdisciplinary Live
Arts; Instill/Install September 20th - October 2nd, 1999
Three person show, "Color, Form, Mark: Addressing the Essential",
John F. Kennedy University, September 1999
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