A Roger L. Crossgrove Retrospective: 1958-2008

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June, 2008

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Event:

A Roger L. Crossgrove Retrospective: 1958-2008

Date:

June 8th to August 31st, 2008

June 8 - August 31
Opening reception, Sunday, June 8, from 2-4 pm / Free and open to the public
Chris Crossgrove, the artist's son, will play solo piano as background music.

Coventry, CT -- Roger Crossgrove, beloved Professor of Art Emeritus at the University of Connecticut, has chosen Muse Le Belle Artiste as the gallery to show and make available a collection of his favorite artworks from 1958-2008, including pastels over watercolor monotypes; black-and-white gelatin silver prints; color c-prints; and watercolor monotypes. A Roger L. Crossgrove Retrospective: 1958-2008 will be on exhibition from June 8 through August 31 at the holistic fine arts center located in the former Methodist Church, 1141 Main Street in Old Coventry Village, CT 06238.

Crossgrove was raised in Nebraska by a mother who received art lessons through the mail. After earning his BFA from the University of Nebraska and his MFA from the University of Illinois, he taught at Pratt Institute in the 1950s and early 60s and came to the University of Connecticut in 1968. Hired as the head of the art department in the School of Fine Arts, he mentored student artists until his retirement in 1988. Crossgrove has exhibited his works extensively in national solo and group shows including The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition. He has established a reputation as a master of the watercolor monotype and since l976 he's been exploring various aspects of photography.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I have been making monotypes for more than fifty years. I use water-based paints to draw and paint directly on a glass surface that has been coated with a thin film of monotype medium. After taking the first impression on an absorbent rice paper, I often rework the remaining paint, wipe away, or add more paint or torn paper stencil shapes to create different but related impressions, thus utilizing and exploiting the sequential or cinematic character of the monotype. It is very process-oriented and I never know what it will look like until it is printed; each one is unique.
In my thirty-year exploration with the camera, I often use special lighting techniques, props, and stage-like settings in addition to the traditional methods to make photographs in both color and black-and-white, focusing on the still life and the male nude.
Roger Crossgrove

June, 2008

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