Photograph by Marc Northstar.
Dewey Crumpler's current work examines issues of globalization/ cultural co-modification through the integration of digital imagery, video and traditional painting techniques. Dewey’s works are in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco DeYoung Museum, Bank of America Collection at Harvey B. Gantt Center, the California African American Museum, Triton Museum of Art Los Angeles and the Oakland Museum Of California. Crumpler received the Flintridge Foundation Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as The Fleishhacker Foundation Fellowship Eureka Award. Currently represented by Jenkins Johnsons Gallery, "Post Atlantic” ANDREW KREPS GALLERY Art Basel Kabinett Sector, Painting Is an Act of Spiritual Aggression are his most recent exhibitions.
Recent Exhibitions:
"Post Atlantic” ANDREW KREPS GALLERY September 8 - October 28, 2023 NYC, “In Space Time“.Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Fransisco Dewey Crumpler: Tulip Memories” FOG Design + Art San Francisco CA, “DEWEY CRUMPLER @ ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH KABINETT" Derek Eller Gallery Painting is an Act of Spiritual Aggression” Derek Eller Gallery New York, N.Y. "Crossings” Richmond Art Center Richmond, CA. The Complete Hoodie Works 1993–Present San Francisco CA, "Vision & Spirit" Works From The Bank Of America Collection at Harvey B. Grantt Center, NC, Armory Show at Javits Center New York, NY, Art Basel Miami Beach with Jenkins Johnson Gallery, "Possessions: Spirituality" Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K. "Justice" Marin Contemporary Museum of Art, California, Eight Bridges: "Visual Rythums," Jenkins-Johnson Gallery S.F. CA "Collapse: Recent Work by Dewey Crumpler, 2018": The Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University's Lee Center for the Arts.
Recent Interviews & Articles:
"Dewey Crumpler Richmond Art Center Artforum Review” by Gabrielle Selz, Artforum & Bookforum a conversation with Saidiya Hartman: Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists, The.Ink interview by Anand Giridharadas “The urgent art of Dewey Crumpler”, NSE #541 Extended Interview by Amanda Gluibizzi, 'If It's In The World, It's For Me', Exhibition Review for "…Hoodie Works" The Brooklyn Rail, "What's It All About?” NYC ARTS, “A Shipping Container Painting and a Pandemic" KQED 2020 The Nation, The Guardian, Le Figaro, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Artnet News, L.A. Times, Elephant Magazine, The Stranger, Urban Culture Studies, City Arts Magazine, Nob Hill Gazette, New York Times 1994