IN OUR NATURE

SOLO EXHIBITION BY CRYSTAL MOREY

June 9th through July 15th, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 9th, 6-9pm
Closing Tea & Artist Talk: July 15th, 3-6pm (talk at 4pm)

IN OUR NATURE SHOW STATEMENT

Crystal Morey will explore the impact and stresses mankind has imposed on animal life and our natural world. She will pay particular attention to species that have been endangered or have become extinct due to urban development, industrial agriculture, over-hunting and loss of habitat. She will also examine how these changes may affect human psyches, emotions, and actions.

Crystal will look at the way mankind interacts with the natural world and the predator versus prey relationship that they share. Nature has always governed human and animal life; evolution had its own timeline and plants and animals coexisted. Crystal will address and examine the acceleration that has occurred in natural lifecycles caused by technology and human growth. One way for us to gauge our effect on the earth is through the health of other species around us.

Crystal wants to bring awareness to these ideas through sculpture that expands beyond what is true and what we know into an enigmatic realism that is of another world. Through combining human-like figures with ghostly animals she will draw a narrative of connectivity showing the relationship that exists between humans, animals, and nature. She will investigate the delicate, interwoven dependencies all creatures share, and the strengths and mysteries found in our world.

The wonderful and talented artist John Casey has organized the Artists in Action portion of the event in which I am happy to have been included. I will be drawing live alongside nine very talented local artists and all of our finished drawings will be sold for $40 each.

Artists include:

David Seiler
Marcos LaFarga
Michael McConnell
Alison Tharp
Alison OK Frost
Crystal Morey
Dave Higgins
Lauren Napolitano
Obi Kaufmann
Nathaniel Parsons

Here is a drawing I will have available Sunday evening.

Come make a clay diorama! Build a forest, dessert, city scape, a place from your past or future, or even a prehistoric land. In this class we will make a miniature environments filled with your ideas. We will also explore who live in these environments maybe adding a person or a creature. We will make two projects using a simple hand building technique and glaze and underglaze for colorants.

ASUC Berkeley Art Studio

Tuesdays, 7-9pm

9 weeks starting May 22nd

$280 (non-students)/$190 (UCB Students)

Sculpting Animals:  Endangered Species In Their Natural Habitats

Instructor: Crystal Morey

Mondays, 6:30-9:30 pm

5 weeks starting January 23^rd

(no class February 20^th)

$190 / $130 UCB Students

In this class we will sculpt endangered animals in their natural habitats.  We will learn simple step-by-step techniques to make animals with color, character, and a realistic feel.  We will also create beautiful and telling landscapes with trees, mountains, icebergs, rivers, oceans and much more.  Come with your clay tools, an inquisitive mind and be ready to have fun.

Please visit this link for a list of endangered animals.  Choose and animal you would like to sculpt and bring the print out to the first class.

Here is one of my favorites!

‘Heading North‘ features a woman and a polar bear about to embark on an adventure.

Artist: Crystal Morey
Title: Heading North
Dimensions: 8.5″x 8″x 4″
Medium: Ceramic and Underglaze
Date: 2011
Purchase here!

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