The Bone
Holly Crawford
InstallationNovember 6 - December 13, 2008
An installation of Clement Greenberg’s punctuation from his article Avant-garde and Kitsch (1939) on the walls at AC [Chapel]. The poem was enlarged from a chapbook that was first published by Holly Crawford in 1997.
About the Artist
Holly Crawford’s art and poetry give new meanings to critical art theories as well as draw artistic categories into question through unexpected, transformative juxtapositions. Many of her projects are ongoing, site-specific and participatory.
Born in California and now living in New York City, Holly Crawford is cross-media installation artist, poet, behavioral scientist, economist and art historian. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Essex in Art History and Theory, a B.A and M.A. in Economics as well as a M.S. in Behavioral Science from UCLA. From 2004-2006, Crawford was a non-clinical Fellow at NYU Medical School Psychoanalytic Center. She has also been a professor of art at both UCLA and SVA. Crawford exhibits internationally and is the author of Attached to the Mouse (2006) and the catalogue essay Disney and Pop as well as the editor of Artistic Bedfellows (2008). She is the Founder and Director of AC [Institute Direct Chapel], a series of exhibition spaces for experimental art in Chelsea, New York City.