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Crystal Gregory
Textiles & Sculpture
Lives and works in Lexington, KY
Crystal Gregory's sculptures combine the permanence of concrete with the fluidity of hand-woven textiles. Gregory has exhibited her work at numerous museums and galleries in the United States, including The Hunterdon Art Museum, The Rockwell Museum of Art, UK Art Museum (Kentucky). Gregory's work has been reviewed by in Hyperallergic, Surface Design Journal, Art Critical, and Peripheral Vision.
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STATEMENT
If the nature of architecture is fixed and permanent then the opposite would be a textile, collapsible and movable. Further consideration would show more common links than difference. Both mediums define space, create shelter and allow privacy; a textile however, has the advantage of flexibility. It is a semi two dimensional plane that has the ability to fold, drape move and change to its surroundings. It is pliable.
My work uses cloth construction as a fundamental center, a place to start from and move back to. With a background in weaving, I see myself as a builder. I draw a clear connection between the lines of thread laid perpendicularly through a warp and the construction of architectural spaces.
Formally, my work takes shape through a pallet of building materials either paired with or mimicking handmade textiles. I found a wonderful tension between building materials like concrete, metal, drywall or glass and the structural patterns of cloth. By pairing these seemingly opposite worlds together I invert material stereotypes, using the ‘delicate’ material to exhibit strength or exposing the ‘structural’ materials’ instabilities. These gestures allow for a reinterpretation of material identities and the viewer is left to confront their understanding of these everyday utilities.
EDUCATION
2013, Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008, Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2006, Jacquard Apprenticeship, Foundation Lisio, Florence, Italy
2005, Associates of Art, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2017-Present, Assistant Professor, Art Studio, School of Art and Visual Studies, College of Fine Art, University of Kentucky
2014-2017, Adjunct Professor, Fiber and Material Studies Department, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
SOLOS EXHIBITIONS AND TWO PERSON SHOWS
2020, Fold Enfold Unfold, Crystal Gregory, Momentum Gallery, Asheville, NC
2018, Crystal Gregory, Rockwell Museum of Art- a Smithsonian Affiliate, Corning, NY
curator Kirsty Buchanan, March 2, 2018 - February 17, 2019
2017, Crossover; Alexa Williams & Crystal Gregory, Black and White Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2017, Crossover; Alexa Williams & Crystal Gregory, Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016, Phases; Alexa Williams & Crystal Gregory, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016, Selvedge; Crystal Gregory & Maeve D'Arcy, Ille Art, Amagansett, NY
2015, Crystal Gregory Defining Line, Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015, Always on Tuesday, Wix Lounge, New York, NY
2015, Crystal Gregory & Lee Hunter, R Jampol Projects, New York, NY
2015, Here Whether There; Crystal Gregory & Lee Hunter, Solo(s) Project House, Newark, NJ
2014, Crystal Gregory, Rietveld Glass Pavilion, Amsterdam, Holland, NL
2014, Crystal Gregory & Luke Ahern, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
2014, The Space Between; Crystal Gregory, TI Artist Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010, Crystal Gregory, Fair Folks & A Goat Gallery, New York, NY
2009, Crystal Gregory, Manhattan Theater Source, New York, NY
2009, On the Fence, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019, Interwoven, UK Art Museum, Lexington KY
2019, Woven Walls, Morgan Leehman Gallery, New York City, NY
2019, Soft Dedication, L ocHal, Tilburg, Holland, NL
2019, KnowsNoBounds,H eavenGallery,Chicago, IL
2019, Painted Thread, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2019, Teach/Taught, Meramec Contemporary, St Louis, MO
2019, Marking Time curated by Lisa Kriner, Rob Mertens, Pat Mink, LM Wood, and Miyuki Cook, James Madison University, Marshall University , Berea College, East Tennessee State University, and Elon University
2019, SOFA Art Fair, Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019, Patterning Resistance, Parachute Factory, Lexington, KY
2019, Family Reunion, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
2018, Aqua Art Fair, Kathy Imlay Gallery, Miami, FL
2018, SOFA Art Fair, Momentum Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018, Welcome Home, The Galleries at Georgetown University, Georgetown KY
2018, In Residence, Haystack Center for Community Programs, Deer Isle, ME
2018, Beyond the Brush, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017, Ideographs, Point Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017, The Art of Construction, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2017, Surface 4, Curated by Renée Riccardo, Brooklyn, New York
2017, Luster and Rust, New Haven, CT
2016 Warehouse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016, Serious Moonlight, LongHouse Reserve Benefit, East Hampton, NY
2016, Devotion/Destruction: Craft Inheritance, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2015, Integral Structure, Schelfhaudt Gallery at The University of Bridgeport, CT
2015, Checkered History, Outpost Gallery, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
2015, The Shape it Takes, Ball and Socket, Cheshire, CT
2015, Working, Kathryn Markel Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2014, Repetition Rhythm and Pattern curated by Lindsey Landried; Space 4 Art San Diego, CA, Millsaps College Jackson, MS, TSA Gallery Brooklyn, NY, SPACE Gallery Pittsburgh, PA
2013, First Street Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2013, MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012, New Work, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012, This House is Not a Home, Southside Hub of Production, Chicago, IL
2011, Recogllio, Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010, Four Stories, Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010, Art Connects New York, Vida Guidance Center, Bronx, NY
2010, Verge Art Fair, Manhattan, NY
2010, Pattern, Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010, Connective Thread, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & SCHOLARSHIPS
2019, Summer Research Fellowship, University of Kentucky, KY
2019, Albers Foundation Artist in Residence, Bethany, CT
2018, Guest Artist at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
2017, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME
2017, Wave Hill Winter Workspace Program, Bronx, NY
2016, Artist-in-Residence, Maison des Métiers d'art de Québec, QC
2015, Vermont Studio Center, Residency Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT
2015, Irvin Borowsky Prize in Glass, Nominee, Philadelphia, PA
2013, Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Art, Artist in Residence, Amsterdam NL
2011, Full Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2010, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency Fellowship, Amherst, VA
2010, NYC Department of Transportation, Public Art Grant, Brooklyn, NY
2010, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
PRESS
2019, The Sensory Tethers You’ll Find in Textiles, by Seph Rodney, Hyperallergic, July 15th 2019
2018, Antigravity, Guest Artist Crystal Gregory Creates "Through the Thread"
2018, Peripheral Vision No. 8, interview by Lucy McGuigan
2017, Material Synthesis: The collaborative art of Crystal Gregory and Alexa Williams, by Roman Kalinovski, Art Critical, August 9th, 2017
2016, Devotion/Destruction Review, by Etta Sandry, textileartscenter.com
2014, Beyond the Surface, by Michael Milano, Surface Design Journal, Winter, 2014. (pp. 46-49)
2014, Crystal Gregory’s The Space Between, by Marty Wood, resonantcity.net
2011 Art in Odd Places: Sign by Ed Woodham, Erin Donnelly, and Radhika Subramaniam, New York Art in Odd Places, 2011. (pp. 93-94)
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