Summer Fun

June 28th, 2010

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer weather! I am emailing to share a few exciting events and shows i have coming up! This going to be a very busy and productive summer, I can already feel it!

Thank you for your support,

Crystal Morey

See My Work!

‘INNOVATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY CRAFT’ A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Crafts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Innovations in Contemporary Crafts is a juried exhibition of San Francisco Bay Area artists. The show explores innovations in the traditional craft mediums of ceramics, wood, glass, metal, fiber, enamel, paper and jewelry. The jurors are Garry Knox Bennett and Nancy Selvin.

June 29th through August 21st

Artists’ reception Saturday, July 24, 3-5 pm

Richmond Art Center

2540 Barrett Ave.

Richmond, CA 94804

‘COMPOUNDING: ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION’

July 10th through August 8th

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10th 6-9pm

The Compound Gallery

1167 65th st. Oakland,

CA 94608 510.817.4042

Purchase my work and support a good cause!

Meighan O’Toole, who writes the blog, ‘My love for you is a stampede of Horses‘ has organized a Gulf oil spill Fundraiser. 83 confirmed artists and print shops are donating one hundred percent of the proceeds of their work to benefit The Gulf Restoration Network.

Works range from $15 to $600, take a look! I have a ‘Hope Log’ available for $55. I have enclosed a picture!

Take My Class!

I am teaching at the ASUC Berkeley Art Studio. the Studio is a wonderful place to learn and get studio access! The

Figure in Clay: Self Portrait : This is a beginning clay class where we will use hand-building techniques to create busts and self portraits. We will use simple step-by-step processes to create more elaborate forms and achieve a human feel. We will look at the history of the figure in art as well as contemporary figurative sculpture for inspiration. Come, have fun, learn, and see the figure in a new way.

Wednesdays 6-8 pm, 6 weeks starting July 21
$140 / $125 ucb students

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Work at the Richmond Art Center

June 21st, 2010

I have a beautiful wall hanging that has been included in a show at the Richmond art center! The show has been curated by artist Nancy Selvin and furniture maker Garry Knox Bennett and will include 28 Bay Area artists. While dropping off my work, I saw some beautiful pieces by artists, Alissa Goss, Karl McDade, and Curtis Arima. Come and see the work!

Innovations in Contemporary Crafts
A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Crafts in the San Francisco Bay Area

Innovations in Contemporary Crafts is a juried exhibition of San Francisco Bay Area artists. The show explores innovations in the traditional craft mediums of ceramics, wood, glass, metal, fiber, enamel, paper and jewelry. With the new decade, we survey artists who are forward thinking in their approach to materials and application. This exhibition is open to San Francisco Bay Area artists who work in all craft mediums. The show will be featured in the Richmond Art Center’s spacious 6,000 square foot Main Gallery, showcasing each artist’s unique approach to their respective craft.

The Richmond Art Center was founded in 1936 and was originally named the Richmond Art Craft Center. It wasn’t until the early fifties when it moved into it’s current home, that it was re-named Richmond Art Center in order to encompass all of the artistic media that it served. This exhibition brings back the beloved Richmond Art Center’s juried Annual Designer Craftsman Exhibition which started in 1951 and ran for at least 25 years.

Jurors: Garry Knox Bennett & Nancy Selvin
Garry Knox Bennett is an internationally known furniture maker, woodworker, metalworker and artist known for his whimsical, inventive and unconventional uses of materials and designs. Born in Alameda, California, his long-established workshop and studio in Oakland.

Nancy Selvin is an independent studio artist living and working in Berkeley, California. She has taught for more than 30 years at colleges and workshops internationally, including a stint at her alma mater, UC Berkeley. Nancy studied with Ron Nagle and the late Peter Voulkos while earning her master’s degree at UC Berkeley. Among her impressive list of honors are two National Endowment Artist Fellowships, and in 2003 she was awarded a California Arts Council Fellowship.

June 29th through August 21st.
Reception for the artists: Saturday, July 24th from 3 to 5pm.

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New Studio Opening

April 12th, 2010

My studio has moved, I am now at the new Compound space located at 1167 65th St. Oakland, CA 94608.

Come Join us this Saturday evening for the re-grand opening of the Compound GAllery and the Swee(t)art Drawing Gallery. The entire space has been in a state of transformation for the last month and now has finally come together for this event!

I will be showing new ink drawings in the Swee(t) art Gallery along with other sculptors who draw! Lucien Shapiro, Bruk Dunbar, and Carrissa Bowman will also be showing new works.

Obi Kaufmann had some very thoughtful questions for me about how I work, and where my imagery comes from.

From Obi’s site:

Crystal Morey, the Record of the Maker

Crystal Morey’s strong yet delicate sculpture has only gotten more strong and more delicate as the years of gone on. As a fan of her work, I am thrilled to include her in the show this month at the Swee(t)Art Drawing Gallery. The show is calledProtoform and from her startlingly consitant and strong portfolio, the gallery will showcase her drawing, a mode of her work that she doesn’t regularly show. If you are a fan ofCrystal Morey’s Website than you do know her drawn work and if not, please visit us on the night of the reception, April 17th, 2010. I visited her new studio in the Compound’s new space on 65th in North Oakland and I asked her a couple of questions.

Her statement for the drawing show:

“In making the drawings for ‘Protoform’ I worked in an additive way. I collaged the drawings together by cutting out pieces and adding them for surface and texture.”


Obi: How did you come about to sculpture? Is it something you have always done, or were you a draw-er at first?

Crystal: I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the rural mountains of Northern California where I spent lots of time roaming the forests and building forts. In the evenings I would draw with my father, making elaborate stories about the animals and indigenous people that lived in the woods. This love for adventure and imagination fueled my desire to draw and has led to many other artistic passions.

I didn’t start sculpting until much later in life. Drawing is something that doesn’t require special equipment, only a surface and a tool to make marks. The way I work is no different, I have a surface and a tool to build with, the separation is in the process and the outcome. I think learning to draw first has only made my sculpture more informed, immediate, and inventive. Drawing and sculpting are both equally important to me. I have found that sculpting is more rewarding for me in its hands on visceral quality, it leaves a record of the maker that I haven’t been able to achieve through drawing.

Obi: I have noticed that your relationship to landscape, as a theme in your work is changing over the years. Am I right about this? Your figures exist in an environment now. Can you describe how that process came about and how you chose the imagery for the environment?

Crystal: I think my work has become less introspective in the past few years. For a long time I was very interested in emotion and focusing on the gesture, over exaggeration and animation in the body. I am still working with these ideas although in recent works I am looking at natural environments in relation to human emotion. I have always seen my figures in landscapes, although before, I only drew them. I am now making full environments, full narratives and landscapes.
The imagery for my landscapes are taken from objects, pictures, films, books, nature, and memory. I then reconstruct these images to make an environment that conveys the ideas and mood I want to show.


Obi: Sometimes I think your figures look like you. Is that right? Where do these people come from?

Crystal: Many people see the work as self-portrait, other people see the work first, and then on meeting me, can’t see the connection. For me, the figures don’t represent specific people, they represent feelings, situations, and states of being, and they are simply a vehicle to show an idea. I relate to humans and I am interested in both the relationships we have with each other and in nature.

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Fresh Produce 2009

November 21st, 2009

I am in a wonderful holiday art show in San Jose at Anno Domini. The show opens December 4th and is full to the brim with original art under $250!

Fresh Produce 08

50 artists from around the world have created hundreds of works of art for this highly anticipated annual exhibition and sale. These artists were invited based on their unique artistic vision and contribution to urban/contemporary arts and culture. Each artist has submitted up to 10 works of original art, all affordably priced at $250 or less.

Exhibition & Sale Opens: First Friday, December 4, 2009
8pm til late, free and open to the public
On view through January 16, 2010

Here are some works I will have available!

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1. “Morning, Keep The Streets Empty For Me”

Ceramic and Underglaze

$125

2009

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2. “Forest Families III”

(Hand wing figure)

Ceramic and Underglaze

$125

2009

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3. “Forest Families V”

(Grass chest)

Ceramic and Underglaze

$125

2009

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4. ”Forest Families VIII”

(Hand body)

Ceramic and Underglaze

$175

2009

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5. “Forest Families VIIII”

(Hand body)

Ceramic and Underglaze

$175

2009

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6. “Our Spring Is Sweet Not Fleeting I”

Ceramic and Underglaze

$175

2009

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7. “Our Spring Is Sweet Not Fleeting II”

Ceramic and Underglaze

$175

2009

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8. “The Big Flight”

Ceramic and Underglaze

$195

2009

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9. “Take Me Home Before The Storm”

Ceramic and Underglaze

$195

2009

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This Long Road Opening!

September 14th, 2009

The opening was really wonderful and hugely attended! Thank you to everyone who made it out for the evening and showed their support!thisLongRoad1

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Posted in Friends, New Work, Openings

This Town

July 1st, 2009

This Town

I am part of a group show at Eclectix Gallery in El Cerrito opening this Friday. The Show features several Northern Californian artists showing the landscapes of where they live though their work. Come check it out! Eclectix is a large, beautiful space with a store as well as a gallery.

Exhibit dates: July 3rd through August 16th

Opening Reception will be Friday July 3rd from 7 to 10 pm.

www.eclectix.com

"This Road"

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