Come see my new work at Rowan Morrison Gallery and visit!

This Saturday and next I will be in the gallery from 12:00 to 5:00!

Artist’s Reception: March Into The Sea: New Works by Crystal Morey

When: Saturday December 4th, 7 – 10pm
Show runs December 6th – January 22nd

Venue: Rowan Morrison Gallery
330 40th Street
Oakland, California 94609

Gallery hours: special events and by appointment

Call Pete or Narangkar at 510-384-5344
email us at info@rowanmorrison.com
visit our website  www.rowanmorrison.com

Crystal Morey’s intention is to explore human emotion and its relationship to our natural world. While studying the tenuous, symbiotic balance between human necessities and the health of our habitat, she has combined her impulse and drive to create with her thoughts of the world and its curious progression. She explores changes to the environment and how it influences our psyches, body language, and attitudes towards life. In particular, she is fascinated in those poignant, articulate moments of beauty, found through stress, that are able to re-form ideas in unexpected ways. By revealing these delicate thoughts she exposes the fragility in our coalition with the earth and the balance that is needed in order for life to continue.

In this body of work she has thought about evolution and cycles of life, with water being a constant theme. Life came from the sea and now through polluted run-off, so much of our waste finds its way back to the sea. This destructive twist to the water cycle has the potential to alter natural life in ways we cannot yet fully comprehend.

The result of these explorations are invented landscapes inhabited by figures who observe, contemplate and respond to their surroundings without judging the actions that created them. In this habitat, natural beauty contrasts with the man-made changes that have altered the environment. These sculptures show the sadness as well as the hope that can come from new beginnings – new beginnings that are necessary whether desired or not.

I am working in the studio getting ready for my next solo show at Rowan Morrison Gallery in Oakland, December 4th!

Here are some pictures:

March Into The Sea: New Works by Crystal Morey

When: Saturday December 4th, 7 – 10pm
Show runs December 6th – January 22nd

Venue: Rowan Morrison Gallery
330 40th Street
Oakland, California 94609

Gallery hours: special events and by appointment

Call Pete or Narangkar at 510-384-5344
email us at info@rowanmorrison.com
visit our website  www.rowanmorrison.com

‘The Wind That Blew My Heart Away’

Life Size

Ceramic and Underglaze

2009

$1200

Protoform #1

12″ x 9″

Ink on paper

2010

$250

‘Wooded’

14″ x 10″ x 10″

Ceramic and Underglaze

2009

$475

“New Growth”

19″ x 8″ x 7″

Ceramic and Underglaze

2009

$450

‘Water Burial’

12″ x 10″ x 1″

Ceramic and underglaze

2010

$475

Untitled

$450

I am making log salt and pepper shakers for the holidays! They will be available at The Compound Gallery for Holidayland!

HOLIDAYLAND IS BACK!
NOVEMBER 27- DECEMBER 20TH

Opening Reception: Plaid Friday, November 27th 6-9pm (wear Plaid!)
First Friday Reception: Friday, December 4th, 6-10pm

*additional holiday cheer events Dec 13th and 20th 4-8pm
Galleries are open extended hours during the sale:WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY 12-8pm

This is the second year we will be joining forces with Blankspace located next door to create a holiday Extravaganza! This year we are looking to offer more local original artwork, handmade crafty items, accessories, cards, ornaments, tote bags and creative fun stuff. Both galleries will be themed with rustic Paul Bunyan decor and will feature over 100 great local artists, designers and craftspeople. Small works of art, ceramics, accessories, paper goods, household goods, gifts for kiddies, jewelry and many more affordable indie gifts. Many fun activities through out the sale including-   Get your holiday photo taken in our themed photo booth (proceeds go to Art in Oakland Schools) and spin the Wheel o’ bounty for prizes.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (see Blankspace for more artists!):  1.by.liz, Adrian Van Allen, Alissa Goss, Amy Martin, Anne Garvey, Art for a Democratic Society, Audrey Roy, Ben Belknap, Brandy Gardner, Brave Moonman, Claudia Bauer, Christopher Romer, Crystal Morey, Ezme Designs, Flock Home, Foxes and Robbers, Hue Yang, Jake Gillespie, Kate Donaldson-Fletcher, Katie Kaapcke, Laura Borchert, lemonade handmade jewelry, Lena Verderano Reynoso, Linea Carta, Lucie-Lu, Matt Reynoso, Masako Miki, Michelle Morby, Noah Sakamoto, Noelle Nakama, Phineas Wilson Peale, Esq., Recession Clothing, Roberto Gastelumendi, Ryan McJunkin, Shannon Ingraham, Tallulah Terryll, Terrariums by Kat Geiger, unatuna, Villain Accessories, W.Ho Made It, Willow Branch Jewelry, YaChin Bonny You, and MORE!!

See www.plaidfriday.com for more info on Plaid Friday!

I am in a wonderful show, Brittle Wonders, that opens tomorrow evening at Los Medanos College. The show is a thoughtful creation organized by artist and curator David Tallitch including artists Amanda Smith, Darren Cockrell, Cindy Williamson, Diana Fayt, and myself.

Opening reception for the artists

6:30-8:30 PM on Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The Los Medanos College Art Gallery will host Brittle Wonders: Ceramic Art in the San Francisco Bay Area from November 11 – December 10, 2009. Brittle Wonders is a group show featuring the work of five Bay Area ceramicists, representing a diversity of approaches to the art of ceramics. The San Francisco Bay Area has a strong ceramics tradition, with innovation and insight into the human condition as its hallmarks. The five artists presented in Brittle Wonders continue in this tradition. Each uses ceramics to offer fresh insight into life as it is today, employing unconventional techniques to create distinctive artworks – these “brittle wonders.”

Amanda Smith creates bas-reliefs depicting a strange world filled with ordinary things and populated by fierce young girls who seem to be always up to the daunting challenges facing them in their beautiful land. Crystal Morey creates delicate ceramic figures and drawings that expose our vulnerability as a species and the tenuous relationship we have with the natural world – a relationship that we lose to our own peril.  Darren Cockrell fires his work “in a wood-fired kiln for 8-10 days where rivers of flame and layers of ash build to provide a surface that integrates the process into the piece” – a violent process that is appropriate for his vessels inspired by the forms of bombs and harbor mines. Diana Fayt studied ceramics and printmaking, and combines both in her work in a process she calls “etching in clay,” the result of which are striking vessels and platters covered with intricate drawings depicting intimately observed flora and fauna. Cindy Williamson creates rugged sculptures of humans, animals, and combinations of the two – all imbued with a haunting, life-like quality that defies the fired clay that they are made of.

An opening reception for the artists is scheduled from 6:30-8:30 PM on November 11, 2009. A Gallery Talk by the exhibiting artists is scheduled for 7:00-8:30 PM on November 19, 2009. The public is invited to attend both events, which will take place at the Los Medanos College Art Gallery, located in the Library building at Los Medanos College, 2700 East Leland Road, in Pittsburg, California. The Los Medanos Art Gallery is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, from 12:30-2:30 PM and 6:30-8:30 PM. Admission to the gallery is free; however, parking costs $2.00. The gallery is wheelchair accessible. For more information call (925) 439-2181, ext. 3463 during regular gallery hours.

www.losmedanos.edu

art blog: losmedanosart.blogspot.com