April in the studio!
April Studio Update
April 4th, 2011New work
March 5th, 2011New larger piece!
Detail!
Mini Review on Hi-Fructose
March 1st, 2011Thank you to Hi-Fructose Magazine and wonderful writer Danielle Vogel for the mini-review on their blog. The picture selection in great and Danielle Vogel’s words are accurate and eloquent!
Thank you!
Join Art in a Box
January 24th, 2011The Compound Gallery’s Art subscription service: Art in a Box is a monthly art subscription service that delivers Bay Area art throughout the world. This exhibition features full sized art by local Art in a Box artists. The new Art in a Box Headquarters is also opening to the public on January 29th!
Here are two new drawings that will be available in the subscription service!
Come Take My Class
January 24th, 2011Artistic Anatomy: Sculpting the Body in Clay
Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30pm 6 weeks starting February 2nd
$160 / $130 UCB Students
| Sculpting the Body in Clay:
In this class we will learn about the body in a more academic way by observing, discussing, and sculpting. We will look at the body as a whole while also spending extra time learning about the head, hands and feet.We will also work to find natural gesture in the body to make sculpture that is more alive and has a unique voice! This class is meant to inform us and give us tools to make more fluid, and anatomically correct figurative clay sculptures. This class is open to everyone, bring an inquisitive mind, clay tools, and be ready for fun and hard work. |
Come See My Work!
December 11th, 2010Come 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!
March Into The Sea: Catalogue
November 29th, 2010We have printed a limited edition of 250 full color, 12page catalogues of the show! They are $7 and beautiful! You can pick one up at the show, or send me an email!
Here is a sneak peek!
Studio Day: Less then a week!
November 28th, 2010I have less then a week until my Rowan Morrison Show. Here is what I have been working on!
Delayed at the train. 10 minutes!
This in half of the couple that will be in the windows at Rowan Morrison. They are about three feet tall!
This is the diorama inside this piece.
Studio Shots: March into the Sea
November 22nd, 2010I am in to middle of intense thought, making, and finishing. I am in work mode and counting down the days until my show at Rowan Morrison.
Last night I was finishing up the catalogue for ‘March Into The Sea’ with my dear husband Shane, and ran across this poetic description of a phoenix. I am keeping this image in my mind as I finish the show!
‘A phoenix is a mythical bird that is a fire spirit with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet. It has a very long life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self.’
Klimt Drawing
Last work to complete!
Small works
Trees
Detail
In the kiln: Prayer to the kiln Gods
Large head
Complete chaos!
March Into The Sea
November 19th, 2010Artist’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.
