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February Issue 2006
Carolina Galleries in Charleston, SC, will Offer Works by Craig Crawford
Carolina
Galleries in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit, Distance
and Details: New Work by Craig Crawford, from Mar. 3 - 24,
2006. Nineteen new oil paintings by Crawford will highlight the
southeastern landscape.
Crawford's early years were spent in the Bay area of California, thus exposing the artist to the Asian aesthetic and culture. The Asian aesthetic, found in the southeastern landscape as well as work by Charleston Renaissance artists, including the woodblock prints of Anna Heyward Taylor and the watercolors of Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, is apparent in Crawford's recent landscape paintings. He was able to immerse himself in the numerous natural environments throughout the state during his childhood. Crawford states that "Whether it is a low country salt marsh, sand hills, or a Cypress swamp, I try to impart the mood and emotion I sense and feel".
Crawford first became
interested in painting through his grandfather, himself a painter
and an architect. He attended the South Carolina Governor's School
for the Arts at Furman University and graduated from the University
of South Carolina. He then trained in the field of Painting Conservation
with Charles Olin, former head of Painting Conservation at the
Smithsonian Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington,
DC.
During his eight year apprenticeship, Crawford spent endless hours
studying paintings, particularly American Landscape Paintings
and the French Barbizon School, and learning how they were made.
He generally works from oil sketches done on location as well
as digital images. Crawford paints in a straightforward traditional
manner, and his paintings are infused with the light and shadows
of the South. His paintings are often mistaken for 19th Century
works, a strong tribute to his study and mastery of the craft.
In addition to being
Charleston's oldest gallery specializing in the art of the Charleston
Renaissance, Carolina Galleries also features contemporary paintings
celebrating the region's continuing aesthetic evolution. The gallery
has been featured in Southern Accents, National Geographic
Explorer, Town and Country, and Architectural Digest.
Carolina Galleries has a primary emphasis on nineteenth and twentieth
century masterpieces, especially landscapes and genre scenes in
Charleston art, spanning from the 1850's to the present.
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 843/723-2266 or at (www.carolinagalleries.com).
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