Kathryn V. Crabbe Art

Born 1965 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Kathryn V. Crabbe lives and works in Southern California. Kathryn has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Queen’s University and a Graphic Design Diploma from St. Lawrence College. She has been working as a professional artist since 1992.

Kathryn has exhibited her work at numerous galleries, public spaces, and museums including the San Diego Women’s History Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art and Art for the Soul. Her work has been featured in private and public collections including the UCLA Arts Library and the Carnegie Library. She has worked as an educator and mentor for Laguna Outreach Community Artists, the Sawdust Art Festival, HGTV, Wise Woman University and Michelle Shocked’s International Women’s Day Show in Hollywood.

Kathryn’s work has appeared in various books and magazines including Kiss Machine, Broken Pencil and the We’Moon Datebook. She has self-published books, zines, oracle cards, a blog and e-course; The Zodiac Goddess Playbook, Creative Soul Cards, Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass, and the Creative Soul Blog. Kathryn has exhibited her work at select art fairs including the Abbott Kinney Art Festival, New York Stationary Show, Sawdust Art Festival and the Santa Monica Contemporary Crafts Market. Her work has been licensed as greeting cards, fabric blocks, handbags and tattoos. Kathryn is a founding member of the The Temecula Writer’s Cafe and Riverside Art Museum Printmaker’s Network and currently volunteers at the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony.

Crabbe’s mixed media paintings and prints are a journey into the forgotten parts of the self – those places, both emotional and physical, that are rejected, neglected, or under-valued in our corporatized and sanitized culture. These neglected places exude a dark kind of beauty and complexity as they form themselves in her work. This work is a foray into sweetness, light and danger all at once. It is deep intimacy – a deliberate mirror and an intent of reclamation. ~ Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director, Revolution Truth.

Artist Statement

My newest paintings, a Journey into Intimacy are an exploration of deeply felt emotions; wordless, abstract, symbolic. Part dream and part yearning, I search for the Divine in everything. Acrylics, charcoal, and pastels are applied in layers to a smooth prepared surface using unorthodox tools and methods; a process that is intuitive and spontaneous.

The BodyPrint Healing Series are monoprints and drypoint intaglio prints created to help heal my emotional, physical and mental body. By scratching (intaglio) and imprinting my body onto a plate a critical distance is achieved between body, mind, and soul, the work itself sublimating the need for any harm to come to the body. Instead of falling victim to pain and suffering, these feelings are instead transferred onto paper, objectified, transformed and healed.

Influences: Philip Guston, Per Kirkeby, Joan Mitchell, de Kooning, Elizabeth Murray, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh,   German Expressionists, Japanese printmakers and my grandfather James Simpkins (creator of Jasper the Bear).

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Crabbe focuses on body, mind, spirit

Selected Exhibitions

2013
Small But Mighty Print Exhibition, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California

2012
PAAR Exhibition, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, California
Members’ Exhibition, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California
Journey into Intimacy Solo Exhibition, Sun City Library, Sun City, California
Journey into Intimacy Solo Exhibition, San Marcos Library, San Marcos, California
Art and Earth: My Art, My World, Murrieta Public Library, Murrieta, California
The Art of the Avocado, Brandon Gallery, Fallbrook, California
Verse to Image, Riverside Community Arts Association Gallery, Riverside, California
Your Face Here: The Modern Self Portrait, San Jacinto College Art Gallery, San Jacinto, California
Local Author Exhibit, San Diego Public Library, San Diego, California
Riverside Arts Council Exhibit, Riverside, California
PNET Members’ Print II Show, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California

2011
Off The Wall, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California
PNET Members’ Print Show, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California
Artscape, Riverside County Administrative Center, Riverside, California

2006
Making Zines=Making Herstory, Women’s History Museum and Educational Center, San Diego, California

2005
San Clemente Public Library, San Clemente, California

2004
Musician’s Workshop, Temecula, California
Art of Zines, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Dark Matter, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

2003
Zine Scene, Orange County Museum of Art Satellite, Costa Mesa, California
Borders Books, Chino, California
Jojo Pinkie Gallery, Costa Mesa, California

 

Collections

Baltimore Museum of Art Archives, Baltimore, Maryland
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Che Café Collective Zine Library, La Jolla, California
Columbia Teacher’s College Zine Library, New York, New York
Olymbia Zine Library, Olympia, Washington
Pacific Northwest College of Art Library, Portland, Oregon
San Diego Public Library, Collections, San Diego, California
San Diego State University Special Collections Library, San Diego, California
San Jose Museum of Art, Anno Domini Art of Zines Library, San Jose, California
Sheridan Zine Library, Welland, Ontario
Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library, Lawrence, Kansas
UCLA Arts Library, Los Angeles, California
100 Sided Die Library, Montreal’s Mile End, Montréal, Québec

 

Published Work

San Diego Poetry Annual, published by William Harry Harding, 2007, 2008.
We’Moon Journal and Datebook, published by Mother Tongue Ink, 1993, 1995, 2005, 2008. (reproductions)
Dawn, Orange County Arts, Cultures, and Innovations, published by The Dawn Foundation, Spring 2006. (reproduction)
Lighthouse Wire Magazine, published by Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada), 2006. (reproduction)
Altar Magazine, published independently, (Brooklyn, New York), Spring 2005, Issue 5, Winter 2006, Issue 6. (reproduction)
Broken Pencil Magazine, published independently, (Toronto, Canada), 2006, Issue 32. (reproduction)
Neighbors Newspaper, published independently, (Temecula, California), September 2006. (reproduction)
The Spoon Magazine, published by University of Windsor, (Windsor, Canada), August 2006. (reproduction)
Kiss Machine, published by Emily Pohl-Weary, (Toronto, Canada), Fall/Winter 2005, Issue 10, Fall/Winter 2005, Issue 11, Spring/Summer 2006, Issue 12, Spring/Summer 2007, Issue 13, Fall/Winter 2006, Issue 14, Fall/Winter 2007, Issue 15. (reproductions)
Art Business News, published by Avanstar Communications, February 2003.

 

Reviews

Press-Enterprise, “Artist Spotlight”, published by Enterprise Media, (Temecula, California), May 8, 2012.
Voyageur Magazine, published by St. Lawrence College, (Kingston, Canada), Spring 2009.
The Valley News, (Temecula, California), February 23, 2007, Issue 8, Vol. 11.
Broken Pencil Magazine, “Excerpts”, published independently, (Toronto, Canada), 2006, Issue 32. (reproduction)
Zine World, “Zine Reviews”, published independently, (Murfreesboro, Tennessee), July 2006, Issue 23.
Press-Enterprise, “Local, Townspeople: Over java, Temecula’s literati meet for inspiration”, published by Enterprise Media, (Temecula, California), April 18, 2006.
Los Angeles Times Calendar, “Pop Music Review”, published by Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2003.
Art Venues Magazine, “In the Spotlight,” (Capistrano Beach, California), 1997. (reproductions)

 

Speaking Engagements

2010
Feminine Mojo Radio Interview
Wise Woman University Interview (live recording)

2007
Speaker, San Diego Poetry Publication Party, San Diego, California

2006
Speaker, North County Author’s and Poets Book Fair, Escondido, California

2003
Artist Speaker, Michelle Shocked, Campfire Series, International Women’s Day Show, “Civil Liberties Are Like Marshmallows” in collaboration with the International A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, Los Angeles, California

 

Teaching

2010-present
Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass

2010
Wise Woman University Mentor, Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass

2001
HGTV, Your New House, silk painting demo

1995-2001
Artist Educator, Sawdust Art Festival, Laguna Beach, California

1990′s
Assistant Instructor, Laguna Outreach Community Artists, Laguna Beach, California
Private silk painting instruction, Laguna Beach, California

 

Galleries (Early Work)

American Visions Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Artscape, Long Beach, California
Art for the Soul, Balboa Island, California
Black Cat Gallery, San Juan Capistrano, California
Hanging Tree Gallery, Rolling Hills Estates, California
How Original Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
Laguna Beach Art Museum Store, Laguna Beach, California
Mingei International Folk Museum Store, San Diego, California

 

Art Shows

1994-present
Abbott Kinney Art Festival, Venice Beach, California
Art from the Heart, Solana Beach, California
Artistic License, Costa Mesa, California
Borrego Springs Circle of Art, California
Bowers Art Museum Show, Santa Ana, California
Carmel Valley Artists, San Diego, California
Fullerton Art Museum Show, California
Gogh Van Orange, Orange, California
Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts, San Diego, California
Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines, Idyllwild, California
Irvine Studio Arts Festival, California
La Quinta Art Under the Umbrellas, California
New York Stationary Show, New York
Oceanside Days of Art, California
San Clemente Art Festival, California
Santa Monica Contemporary Crafts Market, California
Sawdust Art Festival (1995-2001), Laguna Beach, California
Sierra Madre Art Festival, Sierra Madre, California
Sierra Madre Creative Arts Group, California
Winter Sawdust Art Festival, Laguna Beach, California

 

Licensed Art

Creative Image Licensing
Designer Fabric Handbags
Enchanted Tattoos
Fantasy Tea Shop
Fantasy Fabric Block
Recycled Paper Greetings
The Fairy Society

 

Self Published

Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass
Barely A Taste Chapbook by Tangerine Bolen, Ground
Creative Soul Cards
Moon Musings Volume 1
Zines & Chapbooks: Mugwort, Gadfly, Ground, Songs of the Lefties
Zodiac Goddess Playbook

 

Related Activities

2011-2012, 2008
Founding Member, Social Media Communications, Riverside Art Museum Printmakers Network, Riverside, California
Volunteer, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, California

2010
Founder Facilitator, Creative Soul Circle, social site

2007
Founder Facilitator, Temecula Artist’s Salon, Temecula, California

2006
Founder Facilitator, Temecula Writer’s Café, Temecula, California

 

Associations

Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, California
Printmakers Network (PNET), Riverside Art Museum
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California
Women’s Caucus for Art, United States

 

Education

2005-12
Printmaking, letterpress, book arts, encaustic studies with Leslie A. Brown, Dixon Fish, Igor Koutsenko, Victoria Rabinowe, Sibyl Rubottom, Helen Shafer Garcia, Christina Li, Amber George, Kindra Crick

2007-08
Printmaking, Palomar College, San Marcos, California

2003-06
Life drawing, San Jacinto College, Menifee, California

1994
Silk painting studies with Christine Mariotti, Wild Fibre, Long Beach, Califonria

1992
Graphic Design Diploma, St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Canada

1988
BA Art History, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada