May 30, 2024 - September 7, 2024
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The Exhibit
In Tall Horizon, Sydney Croskery presents a series of abstract works that mirror her process of painting as both a means and metaphor for navigating the complexities of contemporary life.
Sydney Croskery, All the Moments, 2023, Oil on linen, 20" x 22", Courtesy of the Artist
Croskery starts a work focusing on the physical properties of painting, using spontaneity and the qualities of the medium to begin. With no initial plans or ideas, she lets the painting guide itself, relying on the feelings and visuals dictated by the materials. As Croskery starts to assert her own decisions of composition, gesture and detail, her process moves into the psychological and philosophical, the visuals of the paintings coalescing with outside influences both personal and worldly. Working to interpret what an individual painting is about; its resulting theme guides the titling of the piece. Croskery’s artistic process of painting and naming becomes her method and meditation to cope, celebrate or merely process aspects of life.
Grieving the stark and sharply polarized present, she uses the metaphors of painting as a reminder to broaden our perspectives in a time when they are collectively narrowing. She calls for a truer look at the horizon, which is not merely a line but a plane that stretches infinitely upward. Tall Horizon serves as a call to broaden perspectives, challenging us all to transcend the limitations of the moment and embrace hopeful possibilities of the future.
Gallery Card
Artist Biography
Sydney Croskery is an artist born and living in Los Angeles, making paintings that are both materially and conceptually rigorous. With a process involving detailed action painting coinciding with writings, Croskery uses abstraction as means to make sense of our political, emotional, overwhelming and hilarious aspects of life. Title and essay for the paintings connect the personal to the societal to our moment in time, creating a visual record for the complexity of contemporary life. Croskery has presented solo shows at Craig Krull Gallery, boxoProjects, and Citrus College Art Gallery.
She has participated in group exhibitions at Over the Influence, Monte Vista Projects, Baik Art, Central Park Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Bakersfield Museum of Art, The Torrance Art Museum, and The Indianapolis Museum of Art. She has presented performance pieces at the Getty Museum, Jack Tilton Gallery, the Deitch Art Parade, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. She was a proud member of the LA Art Girls and is one half of The World-Famous Wiener Girls of Chicago. Croskery was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant for 2018.
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Events
Exhibition Tours
Free with your BMoA Membership
Docent-led except where noted . Reservations are recommended
Saturday, June 15 | 11:00 AM
Friday, July 12 | 6:30 PM (led by Rochelle Botello & Sydney Croskery)
Saturday, July 20 | 11:00 AM
Saturday, August 17 | 11:00 AM
Saturday, September 7 | 11:00 AM
Artists on Artists: Sydney Croskery & Rochelle Botello
Saturday, July 13
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
$20 non-members | $10 members
As part of Bakersfield's Second Saturday programming join exhibiting artists Rochelle Botello and Sydney Croskery as they discuss with each other their craft and work, providing insight into their creative process and how their work plays a crucial role in navigating every aspect of life.
Image Credit: Sydney Croskery, Sea Level (detail), 2023, oil on linen, 20" x 16". Courtesy of the Artist