New Painting by Amy Crehore, "Feeding Time" 2022

 

"Feeding Time" ©Amy Crehore 2022, oil on linen, 16" x 18" 

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My New Painting, 4th "Ephemeral" Exhibit in Tokyo at Jiro Miura Gallery

"Yé-Yé Girl With Guitar", 2021 ©Amy Crehore, 

oil on stretched linen 14" x 14" plus frame 15 3/4"x 15 3/4"

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Here's the new painting that I created for the 4th Ephemeral-Territory of Girls Exhibit in Tokyo, Japan opening Sept. 18th-Oct. 3rd, 2021. I was inspired by the French Yé-Yé Girls of the sixties. This all-women show takes place every two years at Jiro Miura Gallery. I am honored to have been in every show since the beginning. The theme is girls. As usual, there will be a catalog of the show with an image and profile of each artist. Here is a list of the amazing artists in this year's show:

Kaori Aoki, Momoko Akaike, Emi Adachi, Dilka Bear, Jana Brike, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Amy Crehore, Olga Esther, Yuko Fukase, Ai Gonoi, Atsuko Goto, Mao Hamaguchi, Kumiko Higami, Miho Hirano, Miki Kato, Audrey Kawasaki, Rie Kawabe, Kisaki yaya, Chihiro Kogure, Kozue Kuroki, Kimi Kuruhara, Satomi Kuwahara, Selena Leardini, Tracy Lewis, Hiroko Maki, Shiori Matsumoto, Miro Meguro, Kana Miyamoto, Yu Miyazaki, Eri Mizuno, Margaret Morales, Virginia Mori, Yuko Murai, Yuko Nagami, Yuki Nagayoshi, Yumi Nakai, Kaori Ogawa, Saki Ozabu, Yuka Sakuma, Mayuko Sasaoka, Harumi Shinozuka, Kazune Shintaku, Amy Sol, Makiko Sugawa, Minae Takada, Ania Tomicka, Tsubaki Torii, Yuki Toyonaga, Fuco Ueda, Masumi Yamamoto, Chie Yoshii 

JIRO MIURA GALLERY
4F Ishikura Building, 2-5, Nihombashi-Odenmacho, Chuo-ku,
103-0011 Tokyo, Japan
Tel : +81-3-6661-7687
E-Mail : info@jiromiuragallery.com

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Amy Crehore to be featured in Scope Immersive Art Show, Sept 17-20, 2020

I'm thrilled to be represented by La Luz de Jesus Gallery in the Second Edition of SCOPE Immersive International Contemporary Art Show taking place online from Sept. 17-20, 2020. Also showing will be artists D Sullivan Beeman and Alex Graham. Many other galleries will be participating in this online art fair. Art Collectors: be sure to mark your calendar. LINK: https://scope-art.com 
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Amy Crehore Studio - In Progress

On my easel is a new painting destined for the 15th annual Blab! Show opening Sept 12-Oct 3, 2020 in Santa Monica, CA  at Copro Gallery. Check back for finished piece. 

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Ephemeral Show at Jiro Miura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan- Sept 14-29th, 2019

My Tickler Ukulele Girl painting ©Amy Crehore 2018 

is currently part of the third 

Ephemeral Territory of Girls exhibit in Tokyo, Japan. 

Here is the link: Jiro Miura Gallery

The show which features 36 women artists

 opened on Sept. 14th and continues through Sept. 29th, 2019. 

I have been part of all 3 shows which happen every 2 years.

Catalog available. (My painting has sold.)

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Amy Crehore T-shirts and postcards on sale thru Valentine's Day!

Happy New Year 2019!!

Beautiful original silk screened design © by Amy Crehore available in ladies and men's sizes.

Postcard set of 12 recent original paintings ©by Amy Crehore.

I am extending my website sale on these items thru Valentine's Day! 

(Free shipping within the USA, my secure website uses secure paypal.)

I am already working away on paintings for my upcoming solo show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in L.A. (opens Nov. 1, 2019). I'll be showing in Tokyo, Japan as well - my third group show at Jiro Miura Gallery (Sept. 2019). Follow my progress on instagram. 

LINK to website:

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Amy Crehore at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy May 25-July30, 2017

Via Solferino 44 | Milano

UPCOMING SHOWS Opening Thursday 25th May, 6.30pm - YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE IN MAGIC... Amy Crehore, Ilaria Del Monte, Camille Rose Garcia, Anne Siems curated by Michela D'Acquisto Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea is proud to present You May Not Believe In Magic..., a group show curated by Michela D'Acquisto. The works of the artists Amy Crehore, Ilaria Del Monte, Camille Rose Garcia and Anne Siems are permeated by a subtle atmosphere of mystery that subverts the ordinariness of the scenarios depicted, positioning them in the liminal territory where appearance and reality, blending, coexist. It is a not easily definable quid that which, subtly insinuating itself within compositions rendered with detailed accuracy, lends a disorienting quality to the otherwise lucid representation of the world: a confluence of magical elements, ascribable as much to the literary genre of fairy tale as to popular folklore and myth. The timeless harmony of the depiction is disturbed by details that transcend the rules of logic; we are therefore in the presence of works that superimpose sensible reality and visible reality, thus revealing the wonderful aspects of the latter and making the hidden structures that govern it undeniable – «you may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment» [1] Heirs of Magical Realism, the genre that, starting from the twenties of the last century, has been emphasizing the intrinsic wonder of the world, the artists are influenced in the same way by Neue Sachlichkeit and Valori Plastici, by Jorge Luis Borges' stories and Dino Buzzati's ones, revisiting these suggestions according to their own style: the resulting works invite to an awakening of the sensibility and propose a vision of the world mediated by the sublime. In the gallery will be present paintings, works on paper and hand-painted ukuleles. [1] LEONORA CARRINGTON, The Hearing Trumpet, London, Penguing Classics, 2005. Also - in Little Circus: OLIMPIA ZAGNOLI How to eat spaghetti like a lady curated by Chiara Pozzi



Upcoming shows - Amy Crehore Sept 2016

Excited to announce that I will be participating in two fabulous group shows in Sept 2016, 

one in Chicago and one in Santa Monica, CA. Watch this blog for updates.

Copronason Gallery 

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Works in Progress- Amy Crehore, June 2016

Forgive the lack of blog posts, but I have been quite busy.

I recently finished painting an illustration for boingboing.net 

(which I will show you when the time is right) 

and I am currently working on this piece of bathers (progress shown above) 

for one of two group shows in Sept. (Chicago and L.A.). 

Watch this blog for more details soon!

Also, here's the beginning of a 

commission for a very special collector (girl and monkey):

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Online shop with special items and originals coming soon. 

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Newest Painting "Four Bathers, Two Cats" by Amy Crehore 2016

Four Bathers, Two Cats by ©Amy Crehore 2016 oil on linen 14" x 18" 

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New Painting, "The Soaking Room"2015 by Amy Crehore

New Painting: The Soaking Room ©2015 Amy Crehore, 

oil on linen, 10" x 8"
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Update: 12/4/15, this painting has sold

Works in Progress (Amy Crehore)

 Inspiration- windows

Intuitive composition in sketchbook, enlarged and refined as a drawing.

Starting another painting from the new drawing, working on easel next to 

my other unfinished piece. 

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Works in Progress by Amy Crehore©2015

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"Snake Tamer's Ditty" painting by Amy Crehore (sold)

"Snake Tamer's Ditty" 12" x 24" oil on linen by Amy Crehore 2007
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One of my larger Monkey Love paintings"Snake Tamer's Ditty"

will be headed to Seattle this week to the home of a collector of mine. 

I will be sad to see it go.

This painting was shown earlier at Ad Hoc Gallery in Brooklyn, NY  

and at The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art in NJ. 

It was also featured on boingboing .

I painted my first monkey with a sailor hat in 2002. 

That painting had a little girl in it.
It was printed in the award book "American Illustration".
In 2005 & 2006, I did a series of monkey love 

paintings for Blab! art shows in L.A. (Copronason).They were 

also shown at Applegate Gallery (Santa Monica) 

and Roq La Rue(Seattle) and M Modern (Palm Springs) galleries. 

Most of the monkey paintings sold quickly. Many right off my easel. 

One became a framed print available through Pressure Printing. 

I made others into giclees available on my website.
 There were also some works
with monkeys in my solo show at Thinkspace Gallery in L.A. (2009)-
including some antique ukuleles.
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New Painting, "Waiting Room" by Amy Crehore 2015

Here's my painting finished. It's 8" x 10" oil on linen. Click image to enlarge. 

I'm calling it "Waiting Room".

©Amy Crehore 2015

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UPDATE: And here is my newly finished pastel/charcoal drawing (3/13/15):

Waiting Room drawing by ©Amy Crehore 2015

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I'll be showing my art in Tokyo this summer.

Starting new work

If you have been following my instagram , you may have 

seen my latest works in progress. 

I sketched an intuitive piece in pencil first. 

Then I did a drawing in conte crayon (not yet finished) and 

moved on to oil on linen this week. I also tried it in gouache last week, but did not like the results. 

It is an interior scene with figures which I drew from my head. (No models or references.)

I am continually working on new things and I'm excited about an exhibit in Tokyo that I was invited to participate in (this summer). More about that later.

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Sorting through Archives (Illustration)

 Stacks of Playboy Magazines from 1991 - 2002 that my illustrations are published in.

A spread I did for Playboy, issue Jan 1992. My photo appears in the middle of the Playbill.

Here's an example of an illustration I did for Esquire magazine in 1991. 

A story by Robert Stone (who just died this year). 

I have done plenty of illustration work over the years for magazines and book publishers. 

Just look at the stack of Playboys alone that my work has appeared in (above). Eleven years of regular assignments.
Kerig Pope at Playboy was the first art director for a "big" magazine to call me in 1991, followed by Rhonda Rubenstein at Esquire. 

I have many more big name magazines and drawers of original illustrations to
sort through and catalogue like the example of Esquire above.

Right now, my website shows only part of my career history 

with an emphasis on my fine art.
I am working on it and I am working on writing a better bio of my entire art career.

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A New Painting, Bathers' Club by Amy Crehore 2014

Bathers' Club 2014, 12" x 14" oil on linen by Amy Crehore (click on image to enlarge)

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Two Balthus Shows in NYC

BALTHUS

Untitled, c. 1999–2000

Color Polaroid

4 x 4 inches (10.2 x 10.2 cm)

© Harumi Klossowska de Rola

 

Beautiful polaroids (late studies) by Balthus at Gagosian Gallery

and a new Balthus show at the Met for those lucky enough to be in NYC.

Judith Thurman writes for The New Yorker blog about meeting Balthus in Rome 40 years ago and also posing for his wife (who was also a painter). Interesting! LINK

I love the paintings and drawings of Balthus, as you know if you read this blog.

P.S. Picasso owned a Balthus painting

 

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Twitch Uke Paint Job (Crehore)

I took this photo with my ipad in my new studio. I think the paint job is now complete

on my Tickler #3 Twitch Concert Uke. It is time to hand it back over to the luthier for the final touches. There is a green and black inlay at the bottom. I'll take some better photos later on.

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Girls with Ukes

"Song of the Wind" (SOLD) 2009 6" x 6" oil on linen by Amy Crehore

 

Another new collector came along and snagged this little painting last week. One of the girls in the painting is holding a round camp uke. This piece was part of my Dreamgirls and Ukes solo show in Los Angeles.
This week, I am working on an illustration job and trying to finish up the new "Twitch" ukulele. I will show my finished paint job soon, so please stay tuned!

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