Jeremy Crowle

45/ India

2010-04-28T12:42:00.001-07:00

Landscapes 1 -4 (Ap 2010)
India Ink on Paper, 7.5 x 10"

I had paper soaking in water for the press, and had come back a night later to find them too wet to print. I made 8 of these landscapes thinking about traveling to India.

44/ Day in the Life

2010-04-25T10:29:00.000-07:00

Day in the Life (detail) ap 2010
Oil on Canvas, 40 x 40"

This picture for me is really about being a witness to the world, in a sort of introspective emotional way. Inspired partly by a Beatles song, it reflects on an individual perspective of events that involve other people, and celebrates the authenticity of one person's resolution of experience and its connection to the rest of time. It's about the things in the world that influence our future, and the things in us that influence the world.

43/ Tide

2010-04-22T09:24:00.000-07:00

There is a story in almost everything. I was so taken by this washed up log the other night i had to film it - then a few days later I dropped off some friends at the ferry and we all balanced on it at low tide. It hadn't moved much yet.

I've been making landscapes, some of supernatural snags at sunrise, the earth drifting around in the ocean. I remember old stories of snags breaking canoes told by Corey Bulpitt in an old Vancouver apartment, almost 10 years ago.

42/ Natural Graffiti

2010-04-21T11:55:00.000-07:00

Living in a considerably natural environment in contrast to Vancouver - graffiti has been almost eliminated from my creative practice. It has been reduced to scribbles on stretcher frames and scrap paper. I still intuitively look for it - and for places to put it - though it's rare to find any hint of either.

Since there are no walls really that could host it here, I tried to bring the principles of graffiti to my environment by making a consistent moniker made of natural objects and leaving them somewhere on the island. Some stay up for months, even indefinitely - then others are buffed a day later by weather or an animal, or a falling tree in one case! Its become a habit I'm fond of, and I've been posting them online here.

Dedicated to a friend.
Flickr Set: Natural Graffiti for Beta

41/ The Sea

2010-03-15T12:56:00.001-07:00

Aside from this cynical commentary on our relationship with the internet, I've been working on some zinc and copper mezzotint landscapes. This is the first of 3 landscapes on zinc for the Galiano Graphic Guild. The plates were made at bellhouse park on Galiano island.

40/ Loyalty & Betrayal

2010-03-10T09:00:00.000-08:00

2 of 6 first layers of screened prints, for a set of statements that are planned to accompany a body of 6 etchings.

39/ W2 Interview & Artist Talk by Alejandro Zuluaga

2010-01-28T19:03:00.000-08:00

38 / There in Spirit

2010-01-16T12:34:00.001-08:00

14 of 28 works I hung this week for an exhibit at W2 Community Media Arts in Vancouver.

The group of work demonstrates my interest in a contrast between digital and physical landscapes, response, and relationship to space. If you were unable to attend the reception, the show will be up Tuesday, Jan 12 - through Saturday, Feb 6 2010.

W2 Perel Gallery
112 West Hastings Street
Vancouver

Photos by Awesometown Kris Krug

37/ Organized Type

2010-01-16T11:02:00.001-08:00

A great week of community letterpress workshops at W2 Community Media Arts. Every session was packed and we made some really cool stuff. Kris Krug came by and snapped a bunch of photos throughout the week, which you can see in this set on his Flickr page.

We engaged dialogue about type, community, and claiming public space. We even talked about being invisible while we worked on the press. Thanks to everyone that came and participated in Organized Type - it was a great time and i can't wait to attend the next series of workshops.

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2009-12-22T11:40:00.000-08:00

35/ Type Tree

2009-12-09T18:06:00.000-08:00

Made a few typographical images for Winter cards this year. This one was for my friend Carrie Leonard in New York.

34/ Lertterpress At W2

2009-11-28T11:11:00.000-08:00

Testing type (Futura Bold Condensed) in a heritage press from Woodwards.
It's becoming a social enterprise for W2 Community Media Arts, and will include workshops, typography classes and other fun stuff.

If you're in or around the DTES and want to get involved, Sign up for the letterpress group here.

33/ Landscapes in Miniature

2009-11-27T15:16:00.000-08:00

Miniature Paintings for a small group show on Galiano Island.
All works are no larger than 5.5" wide

Opens this Evening (Nov. 27th, 2009) at Islands Edge Gallery / 4pm if you're here.

32/ Response in Bright Yellow

2009-09-28T15:10:00.000-07:00

Made these pictures to describe the movement of someone in transition. The painting with both faces I'm not so fond of for this purpose, but like where it leaves the space in the middle. Unobstructed and a little blurry.

Untitled
Oil on Canvas (x3), 16.5 x 21"

31/ Joey in Whaler Bay

2009-09-28T12:55:00.000-07:00

This painting is derived from a photo taken in Whaler Bay at low tide, a few feet from the studio doors. It is a prototype for the dimentions and scale pertaining to a body of portraits I've just started.

A new body of work I've called "(T)here in Spirit" includes 20 of these portraits, and several paintings that examine the physical movement of response.

30/ Summer

2009-08-31T14:18:00.000-07:00

I socialize more in summer, but got lots done this year (3 Brands, 3 record covers and some books), but mostly shot reference for work that will come out of the winter.

I've been interested in the concept consequence, and instinctual physical response. Images have for the most part depicted the act of covering one eye as a demonstration of response, and I've been drawn to focus on very specific individual traits while comparing on a board of close to 30 subjects.

The Galiano studio has taken a while to set up but I've had a great time adjusting to a very different environment. Another body of work continues, and is inspired by an emotional perception of packaging and transport, as well as the psychology of way finding typography.

29/ New work incomplete somehow still complete

2009-04-14T15:44:00.000-07:00

Crosswalk1, 2, & 3 (2009)
Oil and Enamel on Canvas 16.5 x 21"

Captured a few crosswalks in Tokyo this past summer while there on an extended layover.
Inspired by environment and relationship. The people around you.

River Market (2009)
Block Print 9 x 12 (ap)

Bridge (2009)
Block Print 9 x 12 (ap)

Bangkok Cycle (2009)
Block Print 9 x 12 (ap)

Tooled block prints from images of Bangkok

28/ Colosseum by Jonny

2009-03-26T12:56:00.001-07:00

Travelers in progress:
Oil on Canvas 60" x 84"

There is an underlying theme with a few of these figurative paintings, involving the personalities of corporate brands (Flickr, Google, and Facebook) represented as people interacting with one another in situations where it would seem inevitable.

27/ Psychology

2009-02-27T17:45:00.000-08:00

Swimmer (2008)
Oil on Canvas 48 x 48

Four Horsemen (2008)
Oil on Canvas 48 x 48

A new set photographed. These paintings from last year are reference for new ones.

26/ Trains & Plains

2009-02-24T10:54:00.000-08:00

Vancouver Art Gallery

Road post on frozen Alberta lake

Type Study for new paintings, Street

Trains for Illuminate Yaletown collaboration with Burnkit

Recent Layered photograph made of Devices From 2005

25/ Studio Changing Again

2009-02-01T16:16:00.000-08:00

24/ New Year

2009-01-05T12:26:00.001-08:00

From Top Left:

1. Deer and the hunter, in progress
2. New years eve, Jonny and Chiara
3. The oohs and the ahs
4. Kyle Huck in the studio window
5. Sara in Snow tunnel
6. Bamboo
7. Waterfront St.
8. Storm Trooper
9. Chapel Arts
10. Christmas Party/ Happy birthday Kris!

23/ Blank Out

2008-12-19T14:42:00.000-08:00

From top left

1. Port from Crab Park
2. Nemo's developing bathroom
3. Jen visits the Avatars
4. ECUAD roof top from the Library
5. Jonny Painting
6. Here You Are

22/ Camera Phone Inspiration

2008-12-12T11:39:00.000-08:00

On the Phone: time goes faster

From top left:
1. Telus World of Science deck across false creek
2. Aneurin's Pear
3. Andrea in Costco parking lot
4. Studio in transition
5. Burrard bridge from aqua bus
6. Concord Pacific building
7. Coffee at Farfalla
8. Vodka Coconut by Nemo
9. Nemo heats up the floor
10. Studio Storage
11. Studio Window
12. Dinner with Jane and Craig

(Busy time of year means maybe just posting images is best)

21: Digital Graffiti

2008-11-30T14:33:00.000-08:00

Pixels: meet spraypaint

Spent the last couple days wrapping my head around Joanna Ambrosio's masters project at ECUAD, as an artist participating in a digital graffiti experiment masterminded by Alex Beim of Tangible Interaction.

While the whole concept, process and interactive elements of this were amazingly fun and inspiring, the medium itself was next to impossible to get the hang of. Well i shouldn't say that, i guess it just requires more practice - which i have no problem with whatsoever.