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Lush brushstrokes, sumptuous smears, crashing waves of color, violent scratches, partly obliterated marks, translucent layers of paint, undulations and swirls, autonomous letters and pictograms — the primary elements through which Ford Crull renders his paintings highly poetic and Baudelairean.
Whitehot Magazine — Raphy Sarkissian , 2019
I call my work neo-symbolic abstraction...I make up a lot of my own symbols, icons and pictograms.
Whitehot Magazine — Noah Becker , 2020
Crull is an artist of genuine invention, being someone interested in the abstract interplay of color and form. His work reminds us that good painting continues to exist now, even if it is surrounded by a sea of weaker art.
The Brooklyn Rail — Jonathan Goodman , 2015
I've been in Tribeca for 35 years. In about '84 or '85, I was looking for a nice loft space to paint and live.
Tribeca Citizen , 2021
Now a 25-year survey of his paintings is on display at the Friesen Gallery in downtown Seattle.
The Seattle Times — Sheila Farr , 2001
Fleeting words and phrases float across the surface while a myriad of emblems imply suffering, occult wisdom, and spiritual release, all in a mystical, mutable atmosphere among layers of jewel-like color.
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild , 2024
Metropolitan Museum of Art — Collection , 1988
Metropolitan Museum of Art — Collection , 1989