ANN CRAVEN: TWELVE MOONS
By Greg Lindquist
April 2023
brooklynrail.org
Image:
Ann Craven
Moon (After Quiet Harvest Moon, Cushing, 9-9-22, 8:30 PM), 2022
2022
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
TWELVE MOONS
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN MUSEUM
Savannah GA
February 28 — August 21, 2023
scadmoa.org
EXHIBITIONS
Image:
Installation View
GROUP SHOW
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
54 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8EF
January 12 — February 18, 2023
Ann Craven, Cui Jie, Freya Douglas-Morris, Sophie von Hellermann,
Kat Lyons, Tala Madani, Manuel Mathieu, Sofia Mitsola,
Sabine Moritz, Philippe Parreno, Mary Ramsden, Rachel Rose,
Shahzia Sikander, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lina Iris Viktor and Vivien Zhang
Image:
Ann Craven
Moon (Cushing, 7-23-19, 11:55PM), 2019
2019
Oil on linen
14 x 14 inches
GROUP SHOW
BODYLAND
Curated by Lauren Taschen
Goethestraße 2/3
4 November – 23 December, 2022
Isabelle Albuquerque, Vanessa Beecroft, Ana Benaroya,
Madeleine Bialke, Brian Calvin, Ann Craven, Sarah Cunningham,
Karon Davis, Sky Glabush, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg,
Ulala Imai, February James, Rae Klein, Kat Lyons, Laurie Nye,
Ariana Papademetropoulos, Ilana Savdie, Eleanor Swordy,
Emma Webster, Alina Zamanova
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Installation View
EXTENSIONS OUT: AN EXHIBITION TO
BENEFIT BLANK FORMS
17 White Street, New York, NY 10013
November 2 — 5, 2022
Organized by Sanya Kantarovsky and Hannah Hoffman
Featuring work by Richard Aldrich, Olga Balema,
Camille Blatrix, Julien Ceccaldi, Leidy Churchman,
Ann Craven, Christina Forrer, Hanna Hur, Robert Janitz,
Sanya Kantarovsky, Monique Mouton, Kate Spencer Stewart,
and Terry Winters
blankforms.org
Image:
Ann Craven
Portrait of a Blue Bird (After Picabia, on Black with
Silvery Light), 2022
2022
Oil on linen
18 x 24 inches
TAKE HOME A NUDE
Art Auction + Party
Benefitting New York Academy of Art
Honoring Tracey Emin
October 25, 2022
nyaa.edu
Image:
Ann Craven
Rose (for the Pink Moon, Red Tree, White St,
May 9, 2022), 2022
2022
Watercolor on Arches paper, 140lb
13 x 10 inches
GROUP SHOW
LA PROIE ET L’OMBRE
7 Rue de Beaune, Paris
October 17 — December 22, 2022
Matthew Barney, Ann Craven, Christopher Culver, Oscar Dominguez,
Sophie Gogl, Ulala Imai, Alain Jacquet, Renaud Jerez, Ernst Yohji
Jaeger, Jochen Lempert, Jannis Marwitz, Wolfgang Matuschek, Stuart
Middleton, Ad Minoliti, Yu Nishimura, Francis Picabia, Autumn Ramsey,
Louise Sartor, Michael E.Smith
Image:
Ann Craven
Snowy Owls (after Abudon, January 2, 2021), 2021
2021
Watercolour on arches paper
76,2 × 55,9 cm / 81,3 × 61 cm (framed)
GROUP SHOW
SINGING IN UNISON: ARTISTS NEED
TO CREATE ON THE SAME SCALE THAT
SOCIETY HAS THE CAPACITY TO DESTROY
Organized by Phong H. Bui and Cal McKeever
September 7 – October 16, 2022
Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to announce the opening,
on Wednesday, September 7th, of Singing In Unison, a
multi-part, large scale group exhibitions organized by
Phong Bui and the Rail Curatorial Projects. The exhibition
will be on view at our 88 Eldridge Street location.
Having witnessed two ruptures—the pandemic and the ongoing
crisis of our social and political condition, implemented in part
by those who deploy technology and social media to create chaos
and anxiety for self-serving purposes—the Brooklyn Rail responded
swiftly by launching its daily Zoom lunchtime series, the New Social
Environment (NSE). NSE cultivates thoughtful discussions on
pertinent topics in the arts, humanities, and sciences and values
the amplification of “social intimacy”—in contrast to “social
distancing”—through culture.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Moon (Green Haze Full, Again, Cushing), 2022
2022
Oil on linen
40 x 30 inches
KARMA, NY
COEX
513 Yeongdong-daero
Gangnam-gu, 06164, Seoul
September 2–5, 2022
Karma is pleased to participate in Frieze Seoul 2022,
presenting works by Henni Alftan, Dike Blair, Will Boone,
Peter Bradley, Ann Craven, Verne Dawson, Marley Freeman,
Peter Halley, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Ulala Imai, Keith
Mayerson, Paul Mogensen, Maja Ruznic, Kathleen Ryan,
Alan Saret, Tabboo!,Mungo Thomson, Ouattara Watts,
Xiao Jiang, and Manoucher Yektai.
IMAGE:
Installation view
GROUP SHOW
SEA SHOW
July 30 – August 28, 2022
Winter Street Gallery is pleased to present Sea Show,
an exhibition featuring 25 artists addressing themes
around the ocean. For centuries a fertile source of
inspiration to artists, the sea and its environs are
newly animated in fresh and unexpected ways by
the artworks presented. Featuring: Gertrude Abercrombie,
Ana Benaroya, Dike Blair, Katherine Bradford, Ann Craven,
Carroll Dunham, Louis Eisner, Jane Freilicher, Maureen Gallace,
Elizabeth Jaeger, Merlin James, Allison Katz, Robert Longo,
Sam McKinniss, Alina Perez, Loïc Raguénès, Kenny Rivero,
Wilhelm Sasnal, Dash Snow, Tabboo!, Rachel Eulena Williams,
Nicole Wittenberg, Joseph E. Yoakum, Coco Young, Jack Yuen
IMAGE:
Installation view
GROUP SHOW
NOTHING IS TO BE DONE FOR WILLIAM T. WILEY
June 12 – August 6, 2022
Parker Gallery is proud to present a group exhibition
in tribute to the late William T. Wiley (1937–2021).
The exhibition features a constellation of artists, including
intimates, acquaintances and many without personal connection
to Wiley, bound toghether by their enigmatic and curious spirits.
The artists include child- hood friends (William Allan and Robert
Hudson), fellow professors, colleagues and co-conspirators (Robert
Arneson, Mike Henderson, Ed Kienholz, Peter Saul, Carlos Villa,
H.C. Westermann), and former students (Deborah Butterfield,
Mary Heilmann, Bruce Nauman, Maija Peeples-Bright), alongside
contemporary artists representing several generations of kindred
spirits (Melissa Brown, Ann Craven, Jimmie Durham, Llyn Foulkes,
Piero Gilardi, Peter Halley, Hugh Hayden, Christine Sun Kim,
Calvin Marcus, Ree Morton, Laura Owens, Nancy Shaver, Sue
Williams, Amy Yao).
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Moon (Blue Crescent, Cushing, 9-6-21, 7:30PM), 2021
2021
Oil on linen
14 x 14 inches
GROUP SHOW
WHEN IN MAINE
June 4 – July 30, 2022
“When In Maine…One swims in the pond, gazes at the stars,
lays amongst the moss, feels the mist of the sea, the echo of
the fog horn, eats lobster with friends, and so on and so forth…”
Artists include: Marvin Bileck, Katherine Bradford, Jenny Brillhart,
Ann Craven,Lois Dodd, Jim Drain, Bob Hiemstra, Alex Katz,
Emily Nelligan, Katie Stout, and Nicole Wittenberg
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Installation view
GROUP SHOW
THE VIEW FROM HERE
May 28 – September 11, 2021
CMCA presents the thematic group exhibition, The View
from Here,featuring works by 20 artists (including two
collaboratives) who havepreviously exhibited or otherwise
been involved at CMCA across ourhistory (1952-2022).
The celebratory exhibition coincides with CMCA’s 70th
anniversary, and the unifying concept is unique and dynamic ways
of looking at the world through new or recent works, underscoring
CMCA’s forward-thinking trajectory. Artists include: Katherine
Bradford, Sam Cady, Ann Craven, Lois Dodd, Inka Essenhigh,
Linden Frederick, Alison Hildreth, Hilary Irons, Erin Johnson,
Alex Katz, John Moore, Tessa Green O’Brien, Wade Kavanaugh
& Stephen Nguyen, Probably Joel, Aaron T Stephan, tectonic
industries, Joyce Tenneson, and Nicole Wittenberg.
cmcanow.org
IMAGE:
Installation view
KARMA, NY
1 Harbour Road
Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China
May 25-29, 2022
Karma is pleased to participate in Art Basel
Hong Kong 2022, presenting works by Henni Alftan,
Dike Blair, Ann Craven, and Marley Freeman.
karmakarma.org
IMAGE:
Installation view
KARMA, NY
The Shed
545 W 30th St
New York, NY
May 18-22, 2022
Karma is pleased to participate in Frieze New York 2022,
presenting works by Henni Alftan, Dike Blair, Peter Bradley,
Ann Craven,Robert Duran, Marley Freeman, Peter Halley,
Reggie Burrows Hodges, Keith Mayerson, Paul Mogensen,
Thaddeus Mosley, Woody De Othello, Maja Ruznic, Kathleen
Ryan, Alan Saret, Tabboo!, Mungo Thomson, Ouattara Watts,
Xiao Jiang, and Manoucher Yektai.
karmakarma.org
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Big Moon (Green Haze Full Moon, Cushing), 2022
2022
Oil on canvas
84 × 72 inches
SOLO EXHIBBITION
OPENING JUNE 2
LOS ANGELES
Ann Craven at Hannah Hoffman Gallery
2504 W 7th St, Suite C, Los Angeles
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Rose (on Blue, Guilford, May 16, 2020), 2020
2020
Watercolor on Arches paper, 140lb
13 x 10 inches
EVENING SALE
THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS AND DORIS AMMANN
May 9, 2022
20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
This May, Christie’s is thrilled to present The Collection of
Thomas and Doris Ammann, offered across two live auctions
at Rockefeller Center during the spring 20/21 Marquee Week
in New York. Doris and Thomas were siblings and cofounders
of Thomas Ammann Fine Art. Throughout their lives, the brother-
sister duo supported creative practices, leading artistic endeavours
with passionate expertise. On offer are over 100 works from the
Ammann’s private collection, exemplifying their superior taste for
20th century art. All of the Foundation’s proceeds from the sales
will benefit the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation, a newly
established organization dedicated to improving the lives of children
worldwide.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
I Wasn’t Sorry, 2003
2003
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
LONDON
In collaboration with Southard Reid.
Old Sessions House, 24 Clerkenwell Grn,
London EC1R 0NA, United Kingdom
BOOK RELEASE
Ann Craven and Reggie Burrows Hodges
MOONS AND ANGELS
Contributions by Susan Howe and Christopher Crosman
Karma, New York, 2022
72 pages, hardcover
11 1⁄4 × 11 1⁄4 inches
KARMA, NY
Fashion Industry Gallery
Dallas, TX
April 21-24, 2022
Karma is pleased to participate in Dallas Art Fair 2022,
presenting works by Henni Alftan, Dike Blair, Will Boone,
Peter Bradley, Ann Craven, Verne Dawson, Robert Duran,
Louise Fishman, Marley Freeman, Peter Halley, Reggie Burrows Hodges,
Keith Mayerson, Thaddeus Mosley, Woody De Othello, Maja Ruznic,
Alan Saret, Tabboo!, Mungo Thomson, Ouattara Watts, Xiao Jiang,
and Manoucher Yektai.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Deer in Daisies, 2021
2021
oil on canvas
84 × 60 inches
GROUP SHOW
UNNATURAL NATURE
April 21 – June 10, 2022
Curated by: Todd Bradway
Artists in the New York City exhibition include Henni Alftan,
Hurvin Anderson, Gideon Appah, Jules de Balincourt, Hayley Barker,
Adrian Berg, Jennifer Coates, Ann Craven, Lois Dodd, Maureen Gallace,
Sky Glabush, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Daniel Heidkamp, David Hockney,
Yvonne Jacquette, Jon Joanis, Yuka Kashihara, Alex Katz, Makiko Kudo,
Patricia Leite, John McAllister, William Monk, Laurie Nye, Nicolas Party,
Lisa Sanditz, Wayne Thiebaud, Nicole Wittenberg, and Matthew Wong.
GROUP SHOW
NEW ENGLAND TRIENNIAL 2022
April 8 – September 11, 2022
Prioritizing change over stability, many of the artists’
practices involve processes of unmaking and remaking—patching
things together, dissecting, and rebuilding forms using
discarded parts. Their collective artistry reveals interconnected
tendencies: a focus on kinship and ancestral lineages; a
search for one’s place in the world; the visualization of
data; themes of ruin and decay, and processes of alchemical
transmutation. Artists in this exhibition grapple with difficult
and unjust moments of history and contemporary life. Some employ
generations-old creative traditions in poetic, passionate, and
informed ways. Altogether, their work unearths hidden energies
and stories surfacing at a time defined by change and resilience.
GROUP SHOW
SONGS OF FIRE
April 1 – July 9, 2022
Sophie’s Artist Lounge
Curated by JPW3 and Torie Zalben
Bringing together twenty-one American artists working
across disciplines, the exhibition heralds a moment
of celebration against a backdrop of knowing uncertainty.
The title Songs of Fire is taken from an offhand
utterance by a TV chef, using the phrase to describe
a dish in progress. Taking the metaphor one step further,
the exhibition revels in a process of transformation
out of chaos.
GROUP SHOW
STAND WITH UKRAINE
March 18 – 19, 2022
Following on from 8 years of war in Ukrainian Donbas,
24 February 2022 marked the beginning of Russia’s full-scale
assault on Ukraine. The world has since become witness to
unjustified destruction, suffering and damage caused by this
aggression, while at the same time being amazed and inspired
by the courage of Ukrainian people. In a crisis that touched
Hales in a very direct way (one of the members of our team is
Ukrainian, born and raised in Kyiv) we want to lend support to
those who need it most.
GROUP SHOW
MY REFLECTION OF YOU
February 24 – June 25, 2022
Presented by:Alexander Petalas and Russell Tovey
The Perimeter is proud to present My Reflection of You,
a new group exhibition featuring contemporary works
from two private collections. Alexander Petalas and
Russell Tovey have selected works that highlight common
themes and dialogues running through both of their
collections. This exhibition explores the symbiotic
nature of collecting: the ways in which an individual
informs and shapes their own personal collection and
how this in turn can create a wider dialogue with others.
KARMA, NY
9900 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA
February 17-20, 2022
Karma is pleased to participate in Frieze LA 2022,
presenting works by Henni Alftan, Dike Blair, Peter Bradley,
Ann Craven, Verne Dawson, Marley Freeman, Peter Halley,
Reggie Burrows Hodges, Keith Mayerson, Paul Mogensen,
Thaddeus Mosley, Woody De Othello, Maja Ruznic, Alan Saret,
Tabboo!, Mungo Thomson, Ouattara Watts, Xiao Jiang, and
Manoucher Yektai
GROUP SHOW
LOOKING BACK / THE 12th WHITE COLUMNS ANNUAL
Selected by Mary Manning
“As the global pandemic raged on for another year
in 2021 I felt that I was still working with confusion
and some heartbreak, so the experience of getting to
go look at art with a purpose of sorts had a different,
more joyful register. I primarily used love as a guiding
metric to select these works, being aware of the messy
hard work that comes with love and the rigorous emotional
work that went into making these pieces.” – Mary Manning, 2022.
GROUP SHOW
DES CHAMPS DE FRAISES POUR L’ÉTERNITÉ
January 22 – April 2, 2022
Curated by: Marc Bembekoff and It’s Our Playground
(Camille Le Houezec & Jocelyn Villemont)
Marc Bembekoff, the director of the art center contacted
It’s Our Playground in January 2020 for the first time,
willing them to take part in a project, designing the
scenography of an exhibition which would be a safe space,
a protecting bubble against worldwide political and social
crisis. That was right before the pandemic and all the
turmoil that had lasted for more than a year, which postponed
all the program… So, when early 2021, the show was once
again considered, all agreed to collaborate on that project,
co-curating it, selecting the artists together and re-thinking
the purpose of the show in this new context, quite conscious
that it would be included in a long list of “post-covid” shows
– a risk and a chance at the same time. A risk for it to be
perceived as another show acting as a second wind, but also a
chance to look at artistic practices in search of magic, of
liveness in our new reality.
KARMA, NY
Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA
January 20-23, 2022
Karma is pleased to participate in FOG Design+Art 2022,
presenting works by Gertrude Abercrombie, Henni Alftan,
Dike Blair, Peter Bradley, Ann Craven, Verne Dawson,
Robert Duran, Louise Fishman, Marley Freeman, Peter Halley,
Reggie Burrows Hodges, Keith Mayerson, Thaddeus Mosley,
Maja Ruznic, Alan Saret, Tabboo!, Ouattara Watts, Xiao Jiang,
and Manoucher Yektai.
KARMA, NY
Miami Beach Convention Center
December 2-4, 2021
Karma is pleased to participate in Art Basel
Miami Beach 2021, presenting works by Henni
Alftan, Dike Balir, Will Boone, Peter Bradley,
Ann Craven, Mark Flood, Marley Freeman, Peter
Halley, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Keith Mayerson,
Thaddeus Mosley, Woody De Othello, Nicolas Party,
Maja Ruznic, Kathleen Ryan, Alan Saret, Tabboo!,
Mungo Thompson, Ouattara Watts, Matthew Wong,
Xiao Jiang, and Manoucher Yektai
KARMA, NY
Fashion Industry Gallery
November 11-14, 2021
Karma is pleased to participate in Dallas Art Fair 2021,
presenting works by Henni Alftan, Dike Blair, Will Boone,
Peter Bradley, Mathew Cerletty, Ann Craven, Robert Duran,
Louise Fishman, Marley Freeman, Peter Halley,
Reggie Burrows Hodges, Keith Mayerson, Thaddeus Mosley,
Maja Ruznic, Kathleen Ryan, Tabboo!, Mungo Thomson,
Ouattara Watts, Xiao Jiang, and Manoucher Yektai.
SOUTHARD REID, LONDON
Booth G1
October 13-17, 2021
Vivian Lynn, Ann Craven, Celia Hampton, Joanna Piotrowska,
Neal Jones
Image:
Ann Craven
Pink Canary (Stepping Out with Cherries), 2016,
2016
oil on linen
84 x 60 inches
KARMA, NEW YORK
The Regent’s Park
October 13-17, 2021
Karma is pleased to participate in Frieze London 2021,
presenting works by Gertrude Abercrombie, Henni Alftan,
Dike Blair, Will Boone, Peter Bradley, Ann Craven,
Verne Dawson, Louise Fishman, Marley Freeman, Peter Halley,
Reggie Burrows Hodges, Xiao Jiang, Keith Mayerson,
Paul Mogensen, Thaddeus Mosley, Maja Ruznic, Tabboo!,
Mungo Thomson, Outtara Watts and Manoucher Yektai.
IMAGE:
Installation view
PODCAST
ANN CRAVEN
September 9, 2021
In conversation with: Russell Tovey and Rob Diamond
Russell & Robert meet artist Ann Craven. We discuss painting
the Moon in TriBeCa and Harlem, Her fascination with Birds
as a subject in her work, Agnes Martin, grief and the loss of her
father, the influence of Alex Katz’s paintings (who she worked
for having first met in Maine), snowy owls and a devestating
studio fire twenty years ago in which she lost many artworks
and belongings. We discuss an unexpected family connection
to art legend Frank Stella, her close friendships with Karma
Books Matt Shuster and artist Sophie von Hellerman, plus what
it’s like to be part of an artist couple with her husband the painter
Peter Halley.
REVIEWS
MOONS AND ANGELS OVER THOMASTON
By: Christoper Crossman
August 10, 2021
On bright, spring evenings, while driving north on U.S Route 1,
just past Waldoboro, you will begin to see a full moon hanging
just over Thomaston, a sleepy river town of some two thousand
residents that was once home to deep-water ship masters and
China trade clippers and where their stately homes and civic
buildings linger in varied states of genteel dissolution. Now,
painted moons — emblems of a modern-day Brigadoon — are
seen in a series of paintings by Ann Craven, whose new gallery
has just opened in a beautifully renovated Catholic church in
Thomaston. There, Craven’s moons are accompanied by a choir
of night-enfolded apparitions, a group of “angels” by Reggie
Burrows Hodges.
IMAGE
Ann Craven
Moon (Glowing Pink Trees, Rippling Water), 2021
2021
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches
TWO-PERSON SHOW
KARMA
MOONS AND ANGELS
Ann Craven & Reggie Burrows Hodges
July 31 – September 19, 2021
Karma is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring
angel paintings by Reggie Burrows Hodges and moon paintings
by Ann Craven. The show is set in the former St James Catholic
church at 70 Main Street in Thomaston, Maine. The angels and moons
on display symbolically and literally explore the notion of light found
in darkness. Deep hues of black and midnight blue set the stage for
the heavenly icons, capturing them with a painterly effulgence—or
radiating glow. Appearing throughout the canon of art history, these
enduring celestial subjects have served as protectors and messengers.
Craven and Hodges create warm and inviting interpretations of these
guiding lights that allow the viewer to, in Hodges’s words, “offer up
and be offered back.”
IMAGE #1:
Installation view
Photo credit: Dave Clough Photography
karmakarma.org
GROUP SHOW
FOR THE BIRDS
Curated by Eddie Martinez
July 24 – August 25, 2021
Participating artists: Bill Adams, Derek Aylward, Ann Craven
Rafael Delacruz, Sara Gernsbacher, Jameson Green, Ray Hamilton
Chris Johanson, Leasho Johnson, Joe Light, Sam Moyer, Alix Pearlstein
Peter Williams
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Little Blue Horizontal Promise, 2019
2019
Oil on linen
GROUP SHOW
EXPEDITION
June 19 – October 11, 2021
For half a century beginning in 1916, travelers entered
through the heavy oak-and-glass doors of the building
that today houses the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
to embark on expeditions to destinations nearby and
around the world. This was Brattleboro’s Union Station,
and the gallery where EXPEDITION is on view was its
grand lobby — a liminal space charged with the energy and
anticipation of adventures just completed and those that
lay ahead. Participating artists include: Donald Baechler,
André Butzer, Ann Craven, Matt Dillon, Inka Essenhigh,
Torben Giehler, April Gornik, Andy Hope 1930, Richard Jacobs,
Michael Kagan, John McAllister, John Newsom, Erik Parker,
Raymond Pettibon, Alexis Rockman, Ouattara Watts,
Wendy White
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Deer Running in the Snow (after Courbet)
2006
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
KARMA, NEW YORK
Stand D07
May 5-9, 2021
Henni Alftan, Dike Blair, Will Boone, Peter Bradley,
Ann Craven, Verne Dawson, Louise Fishman,
Marley Freeman, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Keith Mayerson,
Paul Mogensen, Thaddeus Mosley, Woody De Othello,
Maja Ruznic, Kathleen Ryan, Tabboo!, Mungo Thomson,
Matthew Wong, and Manoucher Yektai
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Peach Moon (Full Lover’s Moon, Red Trees, Cushing), 2021
2021
Oil on linen
84 × 60 inches
GROUP SHOW
and I will wear you in my heart of heart
May 1st – August 13th, 2021
The FLAG Art Foundation presents and I will wear you
in my heart of heart, a group exhibition of contemporary
paintings and textiles on view May 1-August 13, 2021,
on it’s 9th floor. Centering on a gesture of care, the exhibition
explores the myriad ways in which 35 artists evoke tenderness
through depictions of lovers and friends, familial exchanges,
moments of solitude, and even a cowboy and his pastel pink
unicorn. Heart of heart includes recent and new works created
for the exhibition that embody the cross-generational resurgence
in figuration as a mode of exploring identity, cultural histories,
and personal experiences.
IMAGE:
From left: Ann Craven’s Two Love Birds (Yellow Orchids), 2021;
(top) Gareth Cadwallader’s Orange Juice, 2015; (bottom)
Sally J. Han’s Sunset, 2021; GaHee Park’s Shallow Night, 2018
Photography by Steven Probert.
REVIEWS
ANN CRAVEN: ANIMALS BIRDS FLOWERS MOONS
By: David Rhodes
April 28, 2021
“Something seems to have changed between Ann Craven’s
last Karma exhibition in 2018 and Animals Birds Flowers Moons,
the current exhibition. Individual works now advance a particularly
estranging form of romanticism with even more boldness and
adventure than before. Together with this, Craven’s animal pantheon
has expanded to include bear cubs, peacocks, woodpeckers, and horses.
The paintings and watercolors here are all recent, so it is perhaps the
restrictive circumstances of pandemic life that resulted in a longing,
nostalgia, childhood memory: notional time travel rather than
geographic movement. The painterly devices—expressive, broad
brushstrokes, subtle blurring, radiant color—are fresh and vibrant.
This amounts to subversion, as the given imagery is so void of obvious
gravitas—the cute, amenable bear in a tree, the eager group of friendly
horses. It would be all very faux-naif if it weren’t for the painter’s clear
tradecraft. I think of the discrepancies found in Martin Kippenberger’s
work: his painterly ability, intelligence, and humor in deploying
“bad painting” and found imagery.”
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Ann Craven, Roses (on Blue with Orchids, after Buffet), 2021
2021
Oil on canvas
84 x 72 inches
EDITIONS
April 2021
Portrait of Two Birds (After Picabia)
130 x 130cm / 51 x 51 inches
Edition of 100
100% silk
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ANN CRAVEN AT KARMA
April 26, 2021
Artist: Ann Craven
Venue: KARMA, New York
Exhibition Title: Animals Birds Flowers Moons
Date: March 18 – May 1, 2021
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Moon (after Red Trees, Full Moon), 2021, March 4, 2021), 2021
2021
Watercolor on Arches paper, 140lb
30 × 22 inches; 32 1⁄8 × 23 7⁄8 inches (framed)
REVIEWS
HANGING ON FOR DEAR LIFE: ANN CRAVEN AT KARMA
By: Zach Seeger
“It’s in the eyes,” a teacher told me about a Giacometti painting
that hung on the wall in his den. “The sitters stare blankly and persistent.
We stare back.” Ann Craven’s current exhibition “Animals Birds Flowers
Moons” at Karma, separated into three locations, is a series of paintings
of birds and other animals set against the moon that blearily share our
collective disbelief and exhausted gaze. Their eyes betray their awareness of
their privileged position as creatures that are free to move, travel, sit and do
nothing, hovering above a crumbling world. Craven masterfully accomplishes
this heightened aloofness not so much with the kitschy tropes of pre-teen
suburban mall posters as with the casual dispatch of sharp, luscious painting.
In insouciant calligraphic flourishes, her swooping brush strokes lather
the canvas, seducing the viewer. Colors ease unmediated from tube to
brush to canvas.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Woodpecker (and the Moon), 2021
2021
Oil on canvas
84 × 72 inches
REVIEWS
NEW YORK – ANN CRAVEN:
“ANIMALS BIRDS FLOWERS MOONS”
AT KARMA THROUGH MAY 1ST, 2021
By: D. Creahan
April 14, 2021
“Currently at Karma’s East Side space in New York,
the gallery has brought forth a series of new works by
painter Ann Craven, titled Animals Birds Flowers Moons.
Working between paint and watercolor, the artist’s new
series of pieces bring together the titular bodies in a series
of varying arrangements, displaying bear cubs, peacocks,
woodpeckers, and horses as an exploration of graphical
nostalgia and its expressive capacity.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Horses Three (on Blue, with Orchids), 2021
2021
84 x 72 inches
Oil on canvas
BOOK RELEASE
Ann Craven
ANIMALS BIRDS FLOWERS MOON
April 8, 2021
Text by Durga Chew-Bose, Keith Mayerson
Interview with Lois Dodd
Karma, New York, 2021
96 pages, hardcover
11 1⁄4 × 11 1⁄4 inches
ANN CRAVEN: ANIMALS BIRDS FLOWERS MOONS
By: Elena Clavarino
April 2021
For the American artist Ann Craven, the moon is an ideal
subjectfor a painting. “It’s a variable that’s constant but changing …
perfect for my work.” Craven is fascinated with the cyclical
quality of life, with memory, time, and change. She paints in
bold strokes,the childlike simplicity of her subjects layered
with references to photographs, other paintings, and historical
works. Craven’spaintings are divided across Karma’s three spaces,
each accompanied by a monograph. The texts align with Craven’s
assorted animals, flowers, birds, and moons, images she “revisits”
over and over again.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
“Snowy Owls (after Audubon, Blue Night with Full Moon, Again),” 2021
2021
Watercolor on paper
30 x 22 inches
REVIEWS
THREE EXHIBITIONS TO SEE IN NEW YORK THIS WEEKEND
March 26, 2021
Karma has given all three of its locations—two galleries and a bookstore
in lower Manhattan—over to Ann Craven for her three part solo-show,
which arrives just in time for spring. As the city’s plants, animals, and
inhabitants emerge from what may have been the longest, loneliest
winter of our lives, we are greeted by this ebullient body of work.
Craven is known for her paintings of moons and birds, and here she
mines these motifs as well as dipping into an unapologetic nostalgia
for fantastical childhood musings, with 7ft-tall paintings of horses
galloping before flowers, glamorous peacocks, and bear cubs who
peer sweetly from tree branches. The compositions are repeated
exactly in multiple paintings throughout the three-venue exhibition,
as if each were a prayer. Craven’s belief in the power of beauty, and
the unique earnestness, skill, humour, and charm on display here,
prevent the works from delving into saccharine territory, instead
keeping them ever enticing.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Portrait of Two Cardinals (after Picabia), 2021
Oil on canvas
84 x 72 inches
ZOOM EVENT
Ann Craven with Jessamine Batario: New Social Environment #260
March 23, 2021
Artist Ann Craven joins art historian and Rail guest critic
Jessamine Batariofor a conversation. We conclude with a
poetry reading from Jessica E. Pierce.
GROUP SHOW
DAY/NIGHT
March 20, 2021
Online from March 31, 2021
Following the exhibition held in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand,
Southard Reid is pleased to present Day/Night for online viewing.
The show, which spanned twelve hours, as other parts of the world
woke and slept, put forward a physical starting point for work that
engages with states, effect and symbolism connected to daily passing
of time and its markers. Work is included by Ann Craven, Bedwyr
Williams, Celia Hempton, Edward Thomasson, Hany Armanious,
Joanna Piotrowska, Prem Sahib, and Vivian Lynn.
IMAGE
Installation view, Aotearoa, New Zealand
SOLO EXHIBITION
ANIMALS BIRDS FLOWERS MOONS
March 18 – May 1, 2021
“Karma is pleased to present Animals Birds Flowers Moons,
a solo exhibition of recent paintings and watercolors by Ann Craven.
Craven’s new subjects, including bear cubs, peacocks, woodpeckers,
and horses, are a foray into childhood imagery and nostalgia—
a provocative new Romanticism. Craven’s canvases reveal bold
brushstrokes; their expressive painterly treatment signals the
vitality and bravura of a new chapter in the artist’s oeuvre.
IMAGE:
Exterior view, KARMA, NY
REVIEWS
THE ALLURE OF INTERCONNECTION
By: Lindsey Costello
December 7, 2020
“… Across from Bay’s paintings, Ann Craven’s Moon
(Pink Crescent, Cushing, 8-25-19, 1:30AM) is a simple
rendering of a luminous pink moon, part of Craven’s
extensive lunar painting catalog dating back to 1995.
The painting has an immediacy and purity, settling
well alongside the other pieces in the room.”
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Moon (Pink Crescent, Cushing, 8-25-19, 1:30AM), 2019
Oil on linen
14 x 14 inches
KARMA, NEW YORK
December 2 – 6, 2020
Karma is pleased to participate in Art Basel OVR: Miami Beach
with a selection of new and historic works from Henni Alftan,
Dike Blair, Andrew Cranston, Ann Craven, Louise Fishman,
Marley Freeman, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Paul Lee,
Keith Mayerson, Paul Mogensen, Thaddeus Mosley,
Woody De Othello, Nicolas Party, Maja Ruznic, Tabboo!,
Mungo Thomson, Matthew Wong, and Manoucher Yektai.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Big Peacock, 2020
Oil on canvas
84 × 60 inches
GROUP SHOW
IMPERFECT CLOCKS
December 5 – February 27, 2021
Yuji Agematsu, Genesis Báez, Lakela Brown,
Ann Craven, TM Davy, Spencer Finch, Nir Hod,
Peter Hujar, Erica Mahinay, Suzanne McClelland,
Julie Mehrten, Adam Milner,
Alison Rossiter, & Bri Williams.
This group of fourteen artists reveal a physical manifestation
and/or metaphysical evidence of time through formal
abstraction in their works. The space between this duality
is explored with ideas of perception, history, intimacy,
nature, decay and the collective human experience.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Moon (Full moon, Cushing, 7-16-19, 8:55PM), 2019
Oil on linen
14 x 14 inches
PUBLICATONS
November 19, 2020
Ann Craven – color me
“Each drawing is an original creation and conveys
a story, a wit, in a shared taste for humor, the absurd
and the imaginary. The educational value of coloring
is no longer to be demonstrated: by expressing their
free talent for color, children observe and become
familiar with the way a drawing is constructed.
These “color me” albums are part of the purest
tradition of the coloring book: small format (A5),
glossy lamination of the cover on card stock, clear
line drawing.”
GROUP SHOW
EARTHA
November 7 – December 19, 2020
Adams and Ollman is pleased to present the group
exhibition Eartha. Using painting as a common language,
the artists included in Eartha examine the concept of the
natural world and their relationship to it. Together, the
works offer a different way of being in the world, one that
is personal, interconnected, and spiritual, while raising
questions of representation, politics, gender and pleasure.
Artists included in the exhibition are Hayley Barker,
Amy Bay, Mariel Capanna, Emma Cook, Ann Craven,
Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, and Maureen St. Vincent.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Moon (Pink Crescent, Cushing, 8-25-19, 1:30AM), 2019
Oil on linen
14 x 14 inches
GROUP SHOW
MIRROR GAZING
November 5, – December 19, 2020
Rafael Baron, Ann Craven, Rosson Crow, Armen Eloyan,
Julie Henson, Elizabeth Ibarra, Pharaoh Kakudji,
Susumu Kamijo, Jennifer King, Becky Kolsrud, Brian Lotti,
Anthony Miler, Julian Pace, Anthony Rianda, Jess Valice,
David “Mr. Star City” White
Ann Craven
Yellow Canary (Stepping Out on Orange, with Cherries)
2019
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
REVIEWS
(NOTHING BUT) FLOWERS
(NOTHING BUT) FLOWERS at KARMA
By: Alfred Mac Adam
September 2020
“…Craven, unlike Katz, stays close to nature—the pansy
again—but here she immerses usin the flower itself as she
recreates it. Color,patterns, even trompe-l’oeil: all of Craven’s
signature tools, but deployed now in such away that her
powers are fully released.”
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Pensée (Big Pink, Orange, on Blue with Cherries), 2020
Oil on canvas
84 x 72 inches
KARMA, NEW YORK
September 23–26, 2020
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Little Sunset Black-Eyed Susans
(in a Glass, Cushing, 8-16-20), 2020
2020, oil on linen, 14 × 12 inches
PRESS RELEASE
CONTEMPORARY ART + DESIGN: NEW ACQUISITIONS
August 30 – March 7, 2021
Contemporary Art + Design presents recently acquired
paintings, installations, jewelry, furnishings,
and design objects. Featuring artists from 11
countries—including artists based in Texas and emerging
painters and designers—the exhibition samples new
directions for the growth of the DMA’s collection.
The painters’ inventive treatments of organic forms
show contemporary approaches to landscapes and still
lifes. These forms resonate with the unique shapes
of the surrounding design works, from the experimental
and functional sculptures by Ron Arad and Misha Kahn
to the elegant and whimsical jewelry by Robert Baines,
Bruno Martinazzi, Jiro Kamata, and Kiff Slemmons.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Diptych (Roses, Stripe, Morning Glory), 2010
2010
Oil on linen and canvas
40 x 96 inches
REVIEWS
3 LOS ANGELES EXHIBITIONS EXPLORING THE NATURE OF THINGS
MATERIA MEDICA at FRANCOIS GHEBALY
By: Paul Laster
August 28, 2020
Presenting artworks that are about nature and
also derived from it, Materia Medica offers a
combination of pseudo-scientific and surreal pieces
to illustrate the perils of our exploitation of the
environment. Curated by multidisciplinary artist
Kelly Akashi, who poses the questions “What does
nature own?” and “What will be inherited when humans
are gone?” in her esoteric exhibition statement,
the show focuses on materials and working methods that
address our fragile relationship with the natural world.
IMAGE:
Installation view
artandobject.com
PRESS RELEASE
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART DEBUTS NEW ACQUISITIONS
August 13, 2020
Featuring contemporary artists and designers from
11 countries,the exhibition includes paintings,
jewelry, furnishings, and otherdesign objects, reflecting
the global commitment of the DMA’s acquisitions program.
Contemporary paintings by artists Harold Ancart,
Firelei Báez, Ann Craven, Sarah Crowner, Derek Fordjour,
Rashid Johnson, Shara Hughes, Chris Ofili, Tomie Ohtake,
Marjorie Norman Schwarz, and Michael Williams illustrate
a range of new and emerging approaches to landscapes and
still lifes. The painters’ inventive treatment of organic
forms resonateswith surrounding design works, which employ
a variety of media and applications.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Diptych (Roses, Stripe, Morning Glory), 2010
2010
Oil on linen and canvas
40 x 96 inches
INTERVIEWS
ARTISTS QUARANTINE WITH THEIR COLLECTIONS
By: Stephen Maine
August 1, 2020
Avery Z. Nelson
Over the past four months I have returned to Craven’s painting
frequently. As I listened to the incessant sirens shriek death up
First Avenue in April, I found serenity, beauty, and decay in Craven’s
flower. As I marched in the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn
during the mayor’s bullshit curfew and police bulldozed into us,
arrested us, beat us, and continued to do their daily job of terrorizing
and murdering Black lives, I began to see the three flowers as a single
flower in motion, either bleeding down into the earth or floating up
into the sky — maybe both at once.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
title and date unknown
Watercolor on paper
12 x 9 inches
GROUP SHOW
(NOTHING BUT) FLOWERS
July 30 – September 15, 2020
Gertrude Abercrombie, Marina Adams, Henni Alftan,
Ed Baynard, Nell Blaine, Dike Blair, Vern Blosum,
Joe Brainard, Cecily Brown, Charles Burchfield,
MattConnors, Andrew Cranston, Ann Craven,
Stephanie Crawford, Somaya Critchlow, Verne Dawson,
Lois Dodd, Peter Doig, Nicole Eisenman, Ida Ekblad,
Minnie Evans, Marley Freeman, Jane Freilicher,
Mark Grotjahn, James Harrison, Lubaina Himid,
Samuel Hindolo, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Max Jansons,
Ernst Yohji Jaeger, Sanya Kantarovsky, Alex Katz,
Karen Kilimnik, Zenzaburo Kojima, Matvey Levenstein,
Shannon Cartier Lucy, Calvin Marcus, Helen Marden,
Jeanette Mundt, Soumya Netrabile, Woody De Othello,
Sanou Oumar, Jennifer Packer, Nicolas Party, Hilary Pecis,
Richard Pettibone, Elizabeth Peyton, Amy Sillman,
Elaine Sturtevant, Tabboo!, Honor Titus, Uman,
Susan Jane Walp, Stanley Whitney, Jonas Wood,
Matthew Wong, Albert York, Manoucher Yektai,
and Lisa Yuskavage
IMAGE:
Installation view
GROUP SHOW
MATERIA MEDICA
Curated by: Kelly Akashi
July 22 – September 4, 2020
Ann Craven, Becca Mann, Candice Lin, Catalina Ouyang,
Diane Severin Nguyen, Evelyn Statsinger, Hugh Hayden,
Janis Miltenberger, Jessie Homer French, Kay Hofmann,
Max Hooper Schneider, Nancy Youdelman, Rindon Johnson
IMAGES (LEFT TO RIGHT):
Ann Craven
Moon, 9-1-06 #1 2006;
2006
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Ann Craven
Moon, 9-1-06 #2 2006;
2006
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Ann Craven
Moon, 9-1-06 #3 2006;
2006
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
VIEWING ROOM
WATERCOLORS
Text by: Durga Chew-Bose
July 21 – August 30, 2020
IMAGE:
Ann Craven Studio
GROUP SHOW
DECAMERON DAY 2
Curated by: Eric Ruschman
May 15, 2020
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Cats in Shelter (Lena, Again, May 02, 2020), 2020
2020
Soft pastel on 50lb acid free paper
17 x 14 inches
KARMA, NEW YORK
FRIEZE VIEWING ROOM
May 8 -15, 2020
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Moon (Full Lavender Halo, Blue Sky,
Cushing, 8-26-18, 11PM), 2018
2018, 24″ x 24″, Oil on linen
THE CUT
AN ONLINE AUCTION
May 1, 2020
Artist Doron Langberg, in collaboration with Yossi Milo Gallery
and Artsy, has launched an online auction to benefit Food Bank
for New York City, the city’s leading hunger-relief organization.
On sale are works by almost 100 artists from a wide range of
backgrounds, including Ann Craven, Marilyn Minter, and Salman Toor.
All of the proceeds will be donated to the Food Bank, which aids
at least 1.4 million New Yorkers in securing meals.
Bidding will end on May 8 at 4 p.m. ET.
ARTSY
April 24, 2020
We are delighted to present an auction to benefit Food Bank For New York City.
This online auction offers the opportunity to purchase works
donated by nearly 100 of today’s most exciting artists, representing
a wide range of practices, backgrounds, and experiences. The incredible
response from artists across all walks of life reflects a call for unity and
collective transformative action.
Some of the artists include:
Dana Schutz, Katherine Bernhardt, Ross Bleckner, Nicole Eisenman, Cecily Brown,
Peter Halley, Ann Craven, Lyle Ashton Harris, Keltie Ferris, James Siena,
Jeffrey Gibson, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Felipe Baeza, Salman Toor, Devan Shimoyama,
Louis Fratino, Marilyn Minter, Alison Rossiter, Betty Tompkins, Didier William,
Jordan Kasey, Sanya Kantarovsky, Elinor Carucci, and many more.
Organized by artist Doron Langberg, facilitated by Yossi Milo Gallery, and powered
by Artsy, the auction will benefit Food Bank For New York City. As the city’s leading
hunger-relief organization, Food Bank provides emergency meals, fresh produce,
and household supplies for low-income New Yorkers, families with school-aged
children, seniors at high-risk of infection, and healthcare workers.
In this “new normal” of social distancing, shuttered businesses, lost wages, and
closed schools thousands more New Yorkers are facing food insecurity. “As artists,
we are uniquely positioned to leverage the power of our work and of our community
to help the ones most affected,” explains Langberg. “Putting together this auction
gave me a feeling of agency which so many of us need right now.”
Founded in 1983, the mission of Food Bank For New York City is to end hunger by
organizing food, information and support for community survival and dignity.
At least 1.4 million New Yorkers rely on its services, with a network of approximately
1,200 emergency and community food providers, including soup kitchens, food
pantries, shelters, low-income day care centers, as well as senior, youth and
rehabilitation centers.
Food Bank Auction Press Release
ARTSY
April 24, 2020
Lot 23
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Pink Bird with Cherries (Blue), 2011,
2011, Reduction Wood Cut on Paper, 34 × 30 in
Bidding open until May 8th at 4pm
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART
VIMEO
April 21, 2020
4 minutes 41 seconds
“Ann Craven loves…
Georgia O’Keeffe
John James Audubon
and Lois Dodd”
vimeo.com
‘EVERYONE IS IN A STATE OF PANIC RIGHT NOW’:
7 Mid-Career Artists on How They Are Facing
the Enormous Challenges of the Coronavirus Pandemic’
By: Naomi Rea
April 15, 2020
KARMA, NEW YORK
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM
April 14-23, 2020
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Red Song (Singing, on Pink), 2020,
2020, Oil on canvas, 84 × 60 inches
GROUP SHOW
UPLIFT
March 20 – July 31
IMAGE
“Uplift”, exhibition view,
Xippas Geneva, 2020.
Credit: Julien Gremaud
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART
PADDLE 8
February 14th, 2020
Every auction purchase directly benefits the Center for Maine
Contemporary Art’s exhibitions and educational programming.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to support the art
and artists of Maine. Art You Love is a timed auction presented
in partnership with Paddle8.
Contributing artists:
Jeff Ackerman, Gideon Bok, Katherine Bradford, Meghan Brady,
Jenny Brillhart, Marcie Jan Bronstein, Emily Brown, Tom Burckhardt,
Tom Butler, Sam Cady, Julie Crane, Ann Craven, Grace DeGennaro,
Lois Dodd, David Driskell, Lynn Duryea, Carol Eisenberg, Inka Essenhigh,
Melanie Essex, Alan Fishman, Tom Flanagan, Linden Frederick,
Peter Halley, Alex Katz, Sal Taylor Kydd, Tracy Miller, Dan Mills, K. Min,
Anne Neely, Tessa G. O’Brien, Colin Page, Danica Phelps, Peter Ralston,
Alison Rector, David Row, Tollef Runquist, Kate Russo, Claire Seidl,
Gail Skudera, Lesia Sochor, Emilie Stark-Menneg, Sara Stites,
Barbara Sullivan, Greta Van Campen, Susan Headley Van Campen,
Tim Van Campen, Don Voisine, William Wegman, Kathy Weinberg,
Jim Wolfe, Robert Younger, and Dudley Zopp.
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART
PADDLE 8
February 14th, 2020
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Pensée #78 (Reims, France, June 21, 2008),
2008, Watercolor on Arches Aquarelle, Cold Press, 140lb Paper
KARMA, NEW YORK
February 14–16, 2020
Gertrude Abercrombie, Henni Alftan, Dike Blair, Will Boone,
Mathew Cerletty, Ann Craven, Alex Da Corte, Robert Duran,
Mark Flood, Marley Freeman, Paul Mogensen, Thaddeus Mosley,
Woody De Othello, Maja Ruznic, Mungo Thomsom
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Pensée (Big Pink, Orange, on Blue with Cherries), 2020,
2020, Oil on canvas, 84 × 72 inches
JONAS WOOD AND ANN CRAVEN TRANSFORM
CHILDREN”S HOSPITALS WITH WHIMSICAL ART
By: Lucy Rees
February 4th, 2020
In partnership with RxArt, these top talents created
site-specific artwork to help uplift children as they heal
MARFAMILY #5
LOIS DODD IN CONVERSATION WITH ANN CRAVEN
December 29, 2019
A VERY CULTURED GIFT GUIDE
ANN CRAVEN WRAPPING PAPER
December 17, 2019
A gift that keeps on giving. Artist Ann Craven designed
this wrapping paper in 2013 for the non-profit organization RxArt.
100% of proceeds support RxArt’s contemporary art
commissions in children’s hospitals.
culturedmag.com
RXART
December 20, 2019
RxART is pleased to be working with Ann Craven
on a project for the Chadwick Center at
Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, CA.
Craven plans to incorporate her colorful and calming
animals into her design for wall coverings in the lobby
of the Chadwick Center.
Her work will provide a cheerful distraction for
children and their families who are receiving support
in their recovery from traumatic events.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven,
Sleepy Pandas (for Chadwick), 2019
Vinyl, Dimensions variable
KARMA, NEW YORK
December 5-8, 2019
Gertrude Abercrombie, Dike Blair, Ann Craven, Will Boone,
Alex Da Corte, Robert Duran, Marley Freeman, Paul Mogensen,
Woody De Othello and Maja Ruznic
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Pink Thinking of You (on Black), 2019,
2019, oil on linen, 60 × 48 inches
karmakarma.org
KARMA BOOKSTORE
136 E 3rd St.
November 23, 6–8 pm
Birds We Know Special Edition
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Maine, 2019
112 pages, hardcover
11 1⁄4 × 11 1⁄4 inches
Signed Edition of 50 with unique, hand-painted cover
Birds We Know book launch and talk
with Ann Craven and Christopher B. Crosman
Introduction by Suzette McAvoy
PADDLE 8
November 21st, 2019
The Counseling In Schools Art Auction will support their
mission to inspire hope and promote healing in children
while they are in school so they can thrive during their
formative years and throughout life. The organization’s
practitioners provide extensive individual and group
counseling programs directly in schools. These include
robust creative arts therapy and youth development activities
that help students awaken possibilities from within.
Participating artists include:
Ann Craven, Peter Halley, Wyatt Kahn, Ajay Kurian, Keith
Mayerson, Kehinde Wiley, and more!
paddle8.com
PADDLE 8
November 21, 2019
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Pensée (Reims, France, June 24, 2008)
2015, Inkjet print on archival paper
KARMA, NEW YORK
October 17-20, 2019
Gertrude Abercrombie, Henni Alftan, Dike Blair, Mathew Cerletty,
Ann Craven, Alex Da Corte, Louise Fishman, Marley Freeman,
Paul Mogensen, Thaddeus Mosley, Woody De Othello
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Moon (Bright Manganese Fade, with Purple Sky), 2018,
2018, Oil on canvas, 84 × 60 inches
karmakarma.org
SOUTHARD REID, LONDON
October 3-6, 2019
Ann Craven, Prem Sahib, Bedwyr Williams
IMAGE:
Installation view
southardreid.com
KARMA, NEW YORK
October 3-6, 2019
Gertrude Abercrombie, Dike Blair, Will Boone, Ann Craven
Alex Da Corte, Robert Duran, Louise Fishman, Marley Freeman,
Paul Mogensen, Thaddeus Mosley, Woody De Othello,
Nicolas Party, Matthew Wong, Jonas Wood
IMAGE:
Installation view
SOUTHARD REID, LONDON
September 28-November 2, 2020
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Big Passenger Pigeons (Extinct, after Audubon), 2019,
2019, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART
KARMA BOOKS
August 15th, 2019
Ann Craven
Birds We Know
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Maine, 2019
112 pages, hardcover
11 1⁄4 × 11 1⁄4 inches
The catalog includes a foreword by CMCA director,
Suzette McAvoy, and an essay by Chris Crosman.
cmcanow.org
MASSIF CENTRAL
July 8th, 2019
Ann Craven will produce an edition of traditional silk scarves
in collaboration with Massif Central
ANN CRAVEN FINALLY SHOWS THE MIDCOAST
WHAT SHE’S BEEN PAINTING
By: Bob Keyes
July 1st, 2019
THIS SUMMER TO SEE MAINE ON FULL DISPLAY
By: Bob Keyes
May 26, 2019
PDF
MUSEUMS LOOK AT THE LEGACIES OF 2 MAINE ART COLONIES
By: Bob Keys
April 28, 2019
IMAGE:
Alex Katz
Lincolnville
1953, Oil on canvas
SHANE CAMPBELL GALLERY, CHICAGO
SOUTH LOOP
April 6 – May 11, 2019
KARMA, NEW YORK
March 7-10, 2019
Gertrude Abercrombie, Ann Craven,
Nicolas Party, Matthew Wong
PUBLICATION:
Karma, New York, 2019
60 pages
8 1⁄4 × 11 inches
SOUTHARD REID, LONDON
March 7 – 10, 2019
Ann Craven and R.M. Fischer
IMAGE:
Installation view
CENTER FOR MAIN CONTEMPORARY ART
June 29 – October 13, 2019
Ann Craven: Birds We Know is the artist’s
first exhibition in Maine. It will be accompanied
by an illustrated catalog with an essay by
Christopher B. Crosman, former founding curator,
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and former
director, Farnsworth Art Museum.
IMAGE:
Ann Craven
Blue Horizontal Promise
2008
Oil on canvas
48×60 inches
cmcanow.org
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART
ARTSY
February 1st, 2019
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art
is offering its annual “Art You Love” benefit auction in partnership with Artsy,
the global online art platform. Featuring fifty works of art by leading and
emerging artists connected with Maine, the CMCA auction is an opportunity
to purchase art you love and support CMCA’s exhibitions and educational
programming for all ages.
This is the first year CMCA is partnering with Artsy to bring its benefit art
auction to a global collecting market. “The Artsy platform allows people to
bid on works of art to benefit CMCA, no matter where they are located,” says
CMCA director Suzette McAvoy. “We have so many terrific contemporary
artists here in Maine and working with Artsy makes it possible for us to
introduce their art to collectors, both near and far.”
Bidding for CMCA’s “Art You Love” auction, cmcanow.org/auction, opens at
noon on Thursday, February 14, and runs through 5pm EST on Thursday,
February 28. At the close of the auction, successful bidders will be notified
by Artsy and CMCA to make arrangements for shipment of the art directly to the buyers.
Artists contributing to the 2019 CMCA Benefit Art Auction include:
Jeff Ackerman, Daniel Anselmi, Bo Bartlett, John Bisbee, Mattina Blue, Katherine Bradford,
Jenny Brillhart, Tom Butler, Sam Cady, Ann Craven, Lois Dodd, David Driskell, Betsy Eby,
Carol Eisenberg, Jeff Epstein, Inka Essenhigh, Melanie Essex, Donna Festa, Alan Fishman,
Thomas Flanagan, Kathleen Florance, Elizabeth Fox, Linden Frederick, Peter Halley,
Alison Hildreth, Cassie Jones, Alex Katz, Fred Kellogg, Sal Taylor Kydd, Amy Lowry,
Jonathan Mess, K. Min, Kayla Mohammadi, Anne Neely, Ni Rong, Kate Russo, Claire Seidl,
Anneli Skaar, Emilie Stark-Menneg, Sara Stites, Barbara Sullivan, Greta Van Campen,
Don Voisine, John Walker, SB Walker, William Wegman, Kathy Weinberg, Shoshannah White,
James Wolfe, and Dudley Zopp.
CMCA has held a benefit fine art auction showcasing work by national and emerging artists
associated with Maine for over 40 years. For assistance or further information on this year’s
“Art You Love” auction, please call CMCA at 207-701-5005 or email jkablack@cmcanow.org.
