Rebecca Crowell

Rebecca Crowell has been a professional artist for over thirty years. Her work is included in many hundreds of private, public and corporate collections, including the MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX) the University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, and the Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art in Ireland.

She is widely known for her development of innovative painting techniques involving cold wax medium and oil and has taught workshops on the topic in the US and internationally for the past decade. She is the co-author of the award-winning book, Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts & Conversations (Squeegee Press, 2017) and co-founder of the online learning platform, Cold Wax Academy. She travels often to the rugged landscapes she loves and has been awarded numerous artist residencies and fellowships in locations such as Ireland, Spain, and Sweden. She and her husband, Don, live in a renovated adobe in Dixon, New Mexico .

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Release

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48x36″ oil & cold wax on panel, $6,200.

Red Willow

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48x36″ oil & cold wax on panel, $6,200.

Lost Path

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48x36″ oil & cold wax on panel, $6,200.

Eroded

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48x36″ oil & cold wax on panel, $6,200.

Red #1

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30x20″ oil & cold wax on panel, $2,850.

Piazza

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42x30″ oil & cold wax on panel, $4,800.

Perimeter #1

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24x24″ oil & cold wax on panel, $2,850.

This Once Was Sea

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10x46″ oil & cold wax on panel, $2,600.

Dream Fragment

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16x16″ oil & cold wax on panel, $1,800.

Settled

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16x16″ oil & cold wax on panel, $1,800.

Memoir # 2

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14x14″ oil & cold wax on panel, $1,400.

Flow #1

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14x11″ oil & cold wax on panel, $1,200.

Flow #2

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14x11″ oil & cold wax on panel, $1,200.

What Remains

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14x11″ oil & cold wax on panel, $1,200.

The Subtle Season

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12x12″ oil & cold wax on panel, $1,100.
EDUCATION:
1985 MFA in Painting, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020 Translations, Painting and Poetry, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA; two-person show
2019 Journeys, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta GA; two-person show
Settings, solo exhibit, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Rebecca Crowell and Christian Burchard, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO
Rebecca Crowell, Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, CA
2017 Still/Moving, solo exhibit, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland;
2016 Interplay, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; two-person show
2014 Spaces Within, Solo exhibit, Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
2013 Beneath the Surface, solo exhibit, Pratt Museum, Homer, AK
2012 Vestiges, 2-person show, Elaine Erickson Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2011 Rebecca Crowell, solo exhibit Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

RECENT INVITATIONAL GROUP SHOWS:
2021 Vessel Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO
Wax Applications, Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION and ACTIVITIES
2009-2021 workshop instructor; nationally and internationally: co-founder of Cold Wax Academy
2013-2022 Artist residencies, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co Mayo, Ireland
2018 Artist residency, Flores Del Camino, Castrillo de los Polvazares, León, Spain
2015 Artist residency, Ricklungarden, Saxnas, Sweden
2014 Red Bog selected by John Seed, Huffington Post, as one of Ten Memorable Paintings of 2014
2012 Artist residency, Cill Rialaig Project, County Kerry, Ireland
2011 Artist residency, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
2008 Artist residency, Centre d’Art I Natura, Farrera, Catalonia, Spain
2001 Artist residency, Centre D’Art I Natura, Catalonia, Spain

PUBLICATIONS, PRODUCTIONS, and PRESS
2018-2021 co-producer and host, The Messy Studio Podcast, with Ross Ticknor
2019 co-producer, Cold Wax Medium: Video Workshop,(Squeegee Press) with Jerry McLaughlin
2018 Woven Tale Press; A Different Kind of Wax Art, Richard Malinsky
2017 co-author, Cold Wax Medium; Techniques, Concepts, and Conversations, (Squeegee Press) with Jerry McLaughlin
2016 Outside/Inside, Artists on Art Magazine, issue #18