Discipline: Visual Art

Gregory Crane

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982, 1984

Gregory Crane’s work has been widely exhibited in both solo and group shows in galleries and museums across the country. His paintings, prints, and works on paper are in numerous public and private collections.

In New York, Mr. Crane has been represented by galleries such as Hirschl & Adler Modern, The Edward Thorp Gallery, and The Cheryl Pelavin Gallery. His most recent one-person show, “Thirty Years of Drawings: 1979-2009” at The Cheryl Pelavin Gallery in New York City, opened in April 2009.

He has taught painting at School of Visual Arts in New York City for the past 25 years. His landscape painting workshops, held at locations across the country such as Southern Vermont Arts Center, The Evergreen State College, Compton Art Center, and The Rockwell Museum, have been well received and attended. Mr. Crane is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships. His work has been reviewed in many well-known publications.

In his review of Mr. Crane’s work in Art in America, Carl Little wrote, “Crane’s paintings have an exhilarating, ominous quality that sets him apart from the majority of today’s landscape artists”.


Portrait by Janet Neuhaser

Studios

Firth

Gregory Crane worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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