Current Show Feature:
CRANK’S work displayed in the Drawing Room of the Wickham House at the Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA, 2024
FEBRUARY 20, 2024 – APRIL 21, 2024
FEATURED ARTWORKS
AGENT ORANGE
CRANK
Agent Orange
2019
coiled red earthenware – Kid Tested Mother Approved
13 x 13 x 22″
INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY
CRANK
Intergalactic Planetary
2019
coiled red earthenware – Kid Tested Mother Approved
13 x 13 x 22″
THIS IS AMERICA…DON’T CATCH YOU SLIPPING UP
CRANK
This is America…Don’t Catch You Slipping Up
2019
coiled red earthenware – Kid Tested Mother Approved
13 x 13 x 22″
These pieces are by the artist entity CRANK who uses traditional Native American vessel forms and red earthenware clay that are then painted with underglazes including 18 karat gold highlights to create pop-culture motifs.
CRANK
CRANK, born on November 22, 1963, the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination which coincided with the death of American innocence, is an outlier, a miscreant, a genderless artist entity that is not necessarily human. CRANK absorbs pop culture, current events, world history, literature, music, and the art market to create works that grab the viewer by the collar. CRANK’s mash up of contemporary American consumption – cultural icons, corporate logos, and sculptural shape – creates narratives that question the idea of ownership in a combination of past, present, and future. Every element of a CRANK work including the title, price, form, and content remains essential to the work itself, acting as a cue to the works’ layered meaning. CRANK attempts to flip notions of control and without a concrete identity, CRANK becomes the game itself rather than the player in both the art market and society at large. With recent acquisitions from well-respected curators and institutions including the Heard Museum, CRANK has garnered critical praise in a very short time for describing life in the twenty-first century.
CRANK vases, installation view, 2019, coiled red earthenware – Kid Tested Mother Approved, 13 x 13 x 22″
ON THEIR WORK IN OUR AMERICA/WHOSE AMERICA?
These pieces are by the artist entity CRANK who uses traditional Native American vessel forms and red earthenware clay that are then painted with underglazes including 18 karat gold highlights to create pop-culture motifs.
FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
Ferrin Contemporary presents Paul Scott in “Our America/Whose America?”. Installation for NCECA Richmond, 2024 at the Wickham House at The Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA. Image courtesy of The Valentine Museum.
OUR AMERICA/WHOSE AMERICA?
2024 | Group Exhibition in the Wickham House at the Valentine Museum | Richmond, VA
February 20, 2024 – April 21, 2024
Our America/Whose America? Is a “call and response” exhibition between contemporary artists and historic ceramic objects.
Ferrin Contemporary “Our America/Whose America?” Drawing Room Installation at the Wickham House, Richmond, VA, 2024
CRANK vases, installation view, 2019, coiled red earthenware – Kid Tested Mother Approved, 13 x 13 x 22″
OUR AMERICA/WHOSE AMERICA?
2022 | Group Exhibition at Ferrin Contemporary | North Adams, MA
Our America/Whose America? Is a “call and response” exhibition between contemporary artists and historic ceramic objects.
View the exhibition page HERE & View the historic collection HERE
Our America/Whose America? Installation View, 2022
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