Clem Crosby is a contemporary artist[1] living and working in London, England.[2][3][4] His work, mainly non-representational painting,[5] is in the collection of the Tate, the Leeds City Museum, the Microsoft Art Collection and the Berkeley Art Museum.[citation needed] He was commissioned by the Young Vic theatre in London to create a permanent installation, titled 180 Monochrome Paintings.[6][7]

Career

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Crosby began creating abstract paintings in about 1986.[8] In 1994 his work was displayed at the Lisson Gallery in London,[9] and some of his early work was included in a group exhibition in Copenhagen in 2000.[citation needed]

Crosby developed a method of painting which employed oil paint on formica on aluminum panels.[10] Many of his paintings include patterned or free-flowing lines with a slick, wet texture, often drawn without lifting his brush,[11] on simple backgrounds,[12][13] to produce thick textured paint surfaces.[14]

Over time, Crosby created a large number of monochrome works that were combined into a permanent exhibit at the Young Vic Theatre.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Contemporary Visual Arts. Contemporary Visual Arts. 1999. p. 46.
  2. ^ About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s. Museum of Modern Art. 1996. ISBN 978-0-905836-98-0.
  3. ^ Contemporary. Contemporary Magazine. 2002. p. 20.
  4. ^ Circa. Artists Collective of N. Ireland. 1999. p. 48.
  5. ^ "Clem Crosby". ArtForum, September 2011. by Barry Schwabsky
  6. ^ Jane Anderson (5 November 2010). Basics Architecture 03: Architectural Design. AVA Publishing. pp. 159–. ISBN 978-2-940411-26-9.
  7. ^ Building Services Journal. Vol. 28, Issues 7-12. Building Services Publications. 2006. p. 279.
  8. ^ "Latest London Art Reviews". Artlyst, Paul Carey Kent. 18 April 2010
  9. ^ "ART / Hi-ho, hi-ho, off to work they go.". The Independent. ADRIAN SEARLE 29 August 1994
  10. ^ "Robert Adams photographs and books, Clem Crosby new paintings". SF Gate, By Kenneth Baker September 13, 2014
  11. ^ "Making Matters at Platform A Gallery". Saturation Point, a review by Andy Parkinson.
  12. ^ "London Diary: Art and Anxiety". Digby Warde-Aldam, 25 November 2015
  13. ^ Baker, Kenneth (July 20, 2012). "Bright's Eccentricity, Crosby's Marginality". San Francisco Chronicle.
  14. ^ Matthew Collings (1997). Blimey!: From Bohemia to Britpop, the London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst. 21 Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-901785-00-5.
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