KANE, CRAIG

PMW GALLERY

KANE, CRAIG


Hand Oil on linen about 1/4 x 3/8" each	Chairs, (with mini-paintings) Oil on wood, Oil on linen 1/2 x 1/2 x 1" (chairs) 1/4 x 1/2" (mini-paintings) (price is chair with mini-painting)
Flag Oil on linen 1/4 x 1/2"	Galaxy Oil on canvas 6 x 8
Egalite Oil on linen 3 x 2"	Coffeeshop Oil on linen 3 x 2"
Portrait Oil on linen 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" (example of a commission)	Lighthouse Oil on bottlecap 1" in diameter (part of a series of five pieces, series price below)
Dream Oil paint and sculpy Approx. 2 1/2 x 3 x 1 1/2"	Jesus Oil paint and sculpy Approx. 2 1/2 x 3 x 1 1/2"
Palm Oil paint and sculpy Approx. 2 1/2 x 3 x 1 1/2"
Houston Street Oil (commissioned by the Angelika Film Center in New York) 7 x 40' (murals may be commisioned)

The New York Times, Sunday, May 5, 1991
PMW Gallery, Craig Kane
by Vivien Raynor

...Craig Kane's oils...[average] about 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. They are cityscapes that were painted in and around Brooklyn, and they hang in phalanxes. One of the most attractive features houses and a bare tree, seen through the louvers of a blind; another is nothing but a pink-and-blue evening sky with a row of street lamps at the bottom that are starting to twinkle.

Sometimes Mr. Kane works even smaller, as in the three images of a blue planet earth, setting over a mud-colored horizon under a black sky, and places the results in cigar boxes. He is a gifted miniaturist who risks- but so far has escaped- preciousness, probably because of his uncute subject matter.

Born in New York City. Lives and works in Manhattan and Queens.

Education

2004 MFA Purchase College
State University of New York

1987 B.A. U.C. Berkeley

Selected Recent Exhibitions

2009   Two Together
          Mount Airy Contemporary
            Philadelphia, PA

           Found
              art sites
              Riverhead, NY
2008     Recollection*
           Keller Gallery, Point Loma Nazarene University
              San Diego, CA

           Sculptural Objects From Odds and Ends*
           Spacecraft Gallery
              San Diego, CA
2007     Made in New York: Beijing*
            LJ Art Space
               Beijing, China

            Made in New York*
            Spacecraft Gallery
                San Diego, CA
2004     The Ballot Show
            Front Room Brooklyn, NY
2003     New York Area MFA Exhibition
            Hunter College
               New York, NY
2002     toScale
           Rotunda Gallery
              Brooklyn, NY

* indicates solo exhibition

The way I work is playful yet serious. It’s intuitive but pointed. Out of my

working process comes a dialogue, a story being told to me about my life, my

work, my relationships to people close to me, about the place where I live and

the way that I live in that place. I mine history when I work, my personal

history, the history of art...what comes together forms the story of who I am

and what my life is about.