Name/Title
Frame #2 (Med)Entry/Object ID
2015.16.01Description
Chris Cran (b. 1949; in Ocean Falls, British Columbia) is a Canadian painter, based in Calgary, Alberta. Cran grew up in a house filled with watercolour paintings as a result of his great grandfather who was a watercolorist and an antique dealer. However, it was not until his teens that he found an interest in painting from his artist friend Herald Nix. Cran would later attend the Kootenay School of Art in Nelson, British Columbia and Alberta College of Art and Design.
Cran has changed his style of painting throughout his career, jumping from simple portraiture to pop art to Picassoesque cubism The subject matter of Cran's paintings is painting and its power; how it is created, its function, how it affects the spectator, and their response to it. Regardless of the content, the artist emphasizes conceptual, technical, and perceptual processes as well as his role as the artist. He achieves this through illusions and optical effects that intentionally play with how images are received and understood by the viewer.
Cran was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002. His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[3] the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Windsor, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada Council Art Bank, Edmonton Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Landfall Press, New York, New York, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Nickle Arts Museum, North York Art Gallery, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery and in private collections.
http://chriscran.com/Artwork Details
Medium
oil and acrylic on canvasDimensions
Height
121.8 cmWidth
91.3 cm