new painting: Gertrude's Beauty in ~
INVITATIONAL SALON EXHIBITION OF SMALL WORKS
New Arts Program
May 22 - July 11, 2009
reception, Friday 5/22, 6:30-9pm
173 W. Main Street, Kutztown PA 19530
hours: Fridays & Saturdays 11-3
or by appointment
610-683-6440, napconn@aol.com
From a review of "Curator's Choice" at the Cohen Gallery of the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania:
"Maria Creyts continues her investigation of the so-called feminine mystique by displaying shapes and contoured canvases painted in lightly patterned 'girly' fabrics."
-- Ron Schira, Reading Eagle
Also see: "Kansas City artists make their mark from Omaha to New York"
by Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star
Flavorpill Chicago cover art 11/25/08
In her solo exhibit,"lacey"...
"Creyts’ three photo friezes are irresistible.
Part tidy, part tease, 'Bessie Mae/Bésame' (Spanish for 'kiss me') is a 10-foot vertical frieze, where layers of lace, net, tulle and braid dance over candy-striped fabric.
Creyts switches to the horizontal with 'Anima' and 'Home Deco.' 'Anima' combines punk pink plaid with a fur-trimmed row of hook and eyes that, writes Creyts, seems 'on the verge of bursting open.' And 'Home Deco' is a delightful flirt with its yellow pompoms, lacy ruffle and damask-inspired wallpaper, which is coquettishly peeling up at the photo’s edge."
-- Sarah Mote, Kansas City Star
November exhibit "lacey" featured in a preview of artKC365 ...see 11/18/2008
(writer Steve Brisendine's artKC365)
A Paper Snowflake -- Minneapolis artist Lisa Erickson’s blog: mariaurora & Flower Girl ...see March 5, 2009
================================
Primarily a painter, Ms. Creyts also pursues silkscreen printmaking and digital projects. Her works are signed ~ mariaurora
Paintings are created by observing assembled still lifes directly and through a patient accretion of satiny acrylic paint, scraped smooth with a blade. Working on paper allows first layers of acrylic to be applied thinly, similar to watercolor. The paper painting is adhered to canvas-covered support. Recent works are circular tondos or based on sewing pattern shapes.
ON LEFT (front page): The artist painting Ellen, a work that recalls qualities and tastes of her grandmother. A silvery-white still life arrangement of pink and green embroidered fabrics and a summer dress is viewed through a window that isolates the composition. Later, the painting was adhered to a specially made shaped canvas, 32“ x 30”.
--------------------------------------------------------
content (c) 1999-2009 Maria Creyts
All Rights Reserved.
No reproduction of images or text without expressed consent from the artist.
--------------------------------------------------------
= EVENTS =
forthcoming: October exhibit at
Saranac Art Projects in Spokane, WA
...and International Invitational Salon of
Small Works, New Arts Program in PA
Curator’s Choice (several paintings)
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
March 1 - April 2, 2009
reception 5:30-8pm Thurs. 3/5
artist talks 5:45-6:30pm
201 Washington St. Reading PA 19601
610 374-4600
http://www.goggleworks.org
Winter Invitational
(silkscreen diptych: "Frenzy")
Telephonebooth Editions & Projects
January thru February 2009
3319 Troost Kansas City MO 64109
816 582-9812
Summer 2009 Intensives @ KCAI
Painting, Computer Animation, Digital Art
Small Works Exhibit at Pi gallery
December 5-27, 2008
opening First Friday 12/5 from 6-9pm
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
open 7-11am M-Sat, 8-noon Sun
(coffee, breakfast, & bunch available)
816 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
"lacey" (solo exhibit) at Pi gallery
November 7-29, 2008
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
open 7-11am M-Sat, 8-noon Sun
(coffee, breakfast, & bunch available)
816 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
Summer Salon
Telephonebooth Gallery
opening Saturday, September 13, 2-6pm
3319 Troost! Kansas City MO 64109
12-5 Saturdays; 816-582-9812
*Urban Suburban:
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS*
opening reception September 14, auction & reception October 25, 2008
Epsten Gallery
5500 West 123rd Street
Overland Park, KS 66209
913 266-8413; mcain@villageshalom.org
Pecha Kucha Night @ Bar Natasha
8pm, Tuesday July 29th: short slide show, along with shows by more than a dozen other Kansas City artists and designers 1911 Main St., KC MO // free, reservations are suggested: 816 472-5300
(See an article on Bar Natasha co-owner and performer Missy Koonce in the July issue of Urban Times.)
This was great -- thanks to Missy and event organizer, Jayne Higdon !
Declare Yourself! (invitational exhibit)
Pi Gallery
Reception 6-9pm First Friday June 6
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Summer classes @ KCAI:
Painting Intensive: HS juniors & seniors
August 4 - 8, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily
Flash Animation: ages 12-15
July 21 - July 25, 1 - 4 p.m. daily
(we had a blast !)
Featured artist, The Winbury Group
private client event, June 2008
TALK!
Join the artist & Avila students
Saturday 3/29, 10:30am at...
Thornhill Gallery, Avila University
"mariaurora"
works by Maria Creyts
February 29 - March 30, 2008
Reception Friday February 29, 5-8
11901 Wornall Rd. KC, MO 64145
noon-3pm Tues-Fri & by appt.
816 501-2443 / Thornhillgallery@avila.edu
2008 Kansas City Flatfile
February 23 - April 5, 2008
Reception Friday February 22, 6-8
H & R Block Artspace, KCAI
16 East 43rd St. KC, MO 64111
noon-5pm Tues-Fri & 11-5 Sat
(by appt. only March 18-21)
816 561-5563 / http://www.kcai.edu/artspace
[four examples of the artist’s digital work]
Art Institute of Pittsburgh Gallery
January 16 - March 8, 2008
Reception Friday February 29, 5pm
420 Blvd. of the Allies Pittsburgh PA
Mon-Thurs 9am-8pm, Fri 9-5, Sat 9-4
Pi gallery's SMALL WORKS EXHIBIT
Reception December 7, 2007
[four 12" paintings by the artist]
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Telephonebooth Gallery Winter Salon
Nov. 10, 2007 through Feb. 2008
3319 Troost! Kansas City MO 64109
12-5 Saturdays; 816-582-9812
[new print projects, signed "mariaurora"]
KCAI Art Invitational
KC Art Institute Crossroads Gallery
Opening First Friday Jan. 4, 5-9pm
12-2 Saturdays 1/5 & 1/12 2008
1901 Main St. Kansas City MO 64108
Slideshow -- Artist's Talk
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
5:30 Wed. October 10, 2007; 4420 Warwick Blvd. Kansas City MO 64111
Seton Gallery, University of New Haven
Chamlin / Coash / Creyts
: PAINTERS' PROJECTS
September 20 to October 17 2007
RECEPTION 4:30-6:30PM September 19 ~ ARTISTS' TALK 5:15PM
300 Boston Post Road West Haven CT 06516; www.newhaven.edu/gallery
isadore GALLERY -- "Master and Apprentice"; April 2007 ~ two paintings each by the artist and her KCAI student
228 N Prince Street, Lancaster, PA 17603
Pi gallery
March 2007 ~ 4-color silkscreen prints on view in conjunction with Southern Graphics Council's Print Conference
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Kansas City Art Institute
Artist's Talk, Epperson Auditorium
7pm December 5, 2006
4415 Warwick Kansas City MO 64111
Fairfield University, Fairfield CT
Visiting Artist -- painting workshop & lecture 2006
Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg/Brooklyn
"Mermaid Show" -- 2006
Fromm Gallery, JCC, Reading PA
"Scope for Imagination" (solo) -- 2005
New York Public Library, Epiphany Branch, works displayed -- 2005, 2006
Philadelphia Sketch Club
Juror -- "Works on Paper" 2005
Coney Island Museum, NY
"Mermaid Show" -- 2005
Rhode Island School of Design
Visiting artist: critique & lecture -- 2004
Albright Cultural Center, Reading PA
Broad Perspectives (7 paintings) -- 2004
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Biloxi Mississippi
Solo exhibit -- spring 2003
Brixton Art Gallery, London UK
Juried group exhibit -- 2002
Posada San Jose, Mexico City MEXICO
2 1/2 story mural project -- 2001-02
Musikfest, Bethlehem PA
by competition:
Rotunda Gallery (4 paintings) & muralist -- 2001
Fundacion Valparaiso Mojacar SPAIN
Artist's residency award -- summer 2000
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art NJ
"The Aljira National 5ive" exhibit, juried -- 1999
The H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore
John Yau, juror "The Next Century" -- 1999
Change Grant -- 1999
check signed by R. Rauschenburg
INVITATIONAL SALON EXHIBITION OF SMALL WORKS
New Arts Program
May 22 - July 11, 2009
reception, Friday 5/22, 6:30-9pm
173 W. Main Street, Kutztown PA 19530
hours: Fridays & Saturdays 11-3
or by appointment
610-683-6440, napconn@aol.com
From a review of "Curator's Choice" at the Cohen Gallery of the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania:
"Maria Creyts continues her investigation of the so-called feminine mystique by displaying shapes and contoured canvases painted in lightly patterned 'girly' fabrics."
-- Ron Schira, Reading Eagle
Also see: "Kansas City artists make their mark from Omaha to New York"
by Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star
Flavorpill Chicago cover art 11/25/08
In her solo exhibit,"lacey"...
"Creyts’ three photo friezes are irresistible.
Part tidy, part tease, 'Bessie Mae/Bésame' (Spanish for 'kiss me') is a 10-foot vertical frieze, where layers of lace, net, tulle and braid dance over candy-striped fabric.
Creyts switches to the horizontal with 'Anima' and 'Home Deco.' 'Anima' combines punk pink plaid with a fur-trimmed row of hook and eyes that, writes Creyts, seems 'on the verge of bursting open.' And 'Home Deco' is a delightful flirt with its yellow pompoms, lacy ruffle and damask-inspired wallpaper, which is coquettishly peeling up at the photo’s edge."
-- Sarah Mote, Kansas City Star
November exhibit "lacey" featured in a preview of artKC365 ...see 11/18/2008
(writer Steve Brisendine's artKC365)
A Paper Snowflake -- Minneapolis artist Lisa Erickson’s blog: mariaurora & Flower Girl ...see March 5, 2009
================================
Primarily a painter, Ms. Creyts also pursues silkscreen printmaking and digital projects. Her works are signed ~ mariaurora
Paintings are created by observing assembled still lifes directly and through a patient accretion of satiny acrylic paint, scraped smooth with a blade. Working on paper allows first layers of acrylic to be applied thinly, similar to watercolor. The paper painting is adhered to canvas-covered support. Recent works are circular tondos or based on sewing pattern shapes.
ON LEFT (front page): The artist painting Ellen, a work that recalls qualities and tastes of her grandmother. A silvery-white still life arrangement of pink and green embroidered fabrics and a summer dress is viewed through a window that isolates the composition. Later, the painting was adhered to a specially made shaped canvas, 32“ x 30”.
--------------------------------------------------------
content (c) 1999-2009 Maria Creyts
All Rights Reserved.
No reproduction of images or text without expressed consent from the artist.
--------------------------------------------------------
= EVENTS =
forthcoming: October exhibit at
Saranac Art Projects in Spokane, WA
...and International Invitational Salon of
Small Works, New Arts Program in PA
Curator’s Choice (several paintings)
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
March 1 - April 2, 2009
reception 5:30-8pm Thurs. 3/5
artist talks 5:45-6:30pm
201 Washington St. Reading PA 19601
610 374-4600
http://www.goggleworks.org
Winter Invitational
(silkscreen diptych: "Frenzy")
Telephonebooth Editions & Projects
January thru February 2009
3319 Troost Kansas City MO 64109
816 582-9812
Summer 2009 Intensives @ KCAI
Painting, Computer Animation, Digital Art
Small Works Exhibit at Pi gallery
December 5-27, 2008
opening First Friday 12/5 from 6-9pm
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
open 7-11am M-Sat, 8-noon Sun
(coffee, breakfast, & bunch available)
816 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
"lacey" (solo exhibit) at Pi gallery
November 7-29, 2008
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
open 7-11am M-Sat, 8-noon Sun
(coffee, breakfast, & bunch available)
816 210-6534, piart@sbcglobal.net
Summer Salon
Telephonebooth Gallery
opening Saturday, September 13, 2-6pm
3319 Troost! Kansas City MO 64109
12-5 Saturdays; 816-582-9812
*Urban Suburban:
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS*
opening reception September 14, auction & reception October 25, 2008
Epsten Gallery
5500 West 123rd Street
Overland Park, KS 66209
913 266-8413; mcain@villageshalom.org
Pecha Kucha Night @ Bar Natasha
8pm, Tuesday July 29th: short slide show, along with shows by more than a dozen other Kansas City artists and designers 1911 Main St., KC MO // free, reservations are suggested: 816 472-5300
(See an article on Bar Natasha co-owner and performer Missy Koonce in the July issue of Urban Times.)
This was great -- thanks to Missy and event organizer, Jayne Higdon !
Declare Yourself! (invitational exhibit)
Pi Gallery
Reception 6-9pm First Friday June 6
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Summer classes @ KCAI:
Painting Intensive: HS juniors & seniors
August 4 - 8, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily
Flash Animation: ages 12-15
July 21 - July 25, 1 - 4 p.m. daily
(we had a blast !)
Featured artist, The Winbury Group
private client event, June 2008
TALK!
Join the artist & Avila students
Saturday 3/29, 10:30am at...
Thornhill Gallery, Avila University
"mariaurora"
works by Maria Creyts
February 29 - March 30, 2008
Reception Friday February 29, 5-8
11901 Wornall Rd. KC, MO 64145
noon-3pm Tues-Fri & by appt.
816 501-2443 / Thornhillgallery@avila.edu
2008 Kansas City Flatfile
February 23 - April 5, 2008
Reception Friday February 22, 6-8
H & R Block Artspace, KCAI
16 East 43rd St. KC, MO 64111
noon-5pm Tues-Fri & 11-5 Sat
(by appt. only March 18-21)
816 561-5563 / http://www.kcai.edu/artspace
[four examples of the artist’s digital work]
Art Institute of Pittsburgh Gallery
January 16 - March 8, 2008
Reception Friday February 29, 5pm
420 Blvd. of the Allies Pittsburgh PA
Mon-Thurs 9am-8pm, Fri 9-5, Sat 9-4
Pi gallery's SMALL WORKS EXHIBIT
Reception December 7, 2007
[four 12" paintings by the artist]
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Telephonebooth Gallery Winter Salon
Nov. 10, 2007 through Feb. 2008
3319 Troost! Kansas City MO 64109
12-5 Saturdays; 816-582-9812
[new print projects, signed "mariaurora"]
KCAI Art Invitational
KC Art Institute Crossroads Gallery
Opening First Friday Jan. 4, 5-9pm
12-2 Saturdays 1/5 & 1/12 2008
1901 Main St. Kansas City MO 64108
Slideshow -- Artist's Talk
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
5:30 Wed. October 10, 2007; 4420 Warwick Blvd. Kansas City MO 64111
Seton Gallery, University of New Haven
Chamlin / Coash / Creyts
: PAINTERS' PROJECTS
September 20 to October 17 2007
RECEPTION 4:30-6:30PM September 19 ~ ARTISTS' TALK 5:15PM
300 Boston Post Road West Haven CT 06516; www.newhaven.edu/gallery
isadore GALLERY -- "Master and Apprentice"; April 2007 ~ two paintings each by the artist and her KCAI student
228 N Prince Street, Lancaster, PA 17603
Pi gallery
March 2007 ~ 4-color silkscreen prints on view in conjunction with Southern Graphics Council's Print Conference
419 E 18th St. Kansas City MO 64108
Kansas City Art Institute
Artist's Talk, Epperson Auditorium
7pm December 5, 2006
4415 Warwick Kansas City MO 64111
Fairfield University, Fairfield CT
Visiting Artist -- painting workshop & lecture 2006
Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg/Brooklyn
"Mermaid Show" -- 2006
Fromm Gallery, JCC, Reading PA
"Scope for Imagination" (solo) -- 2005
New York Public Library, Epiphany Branch, works displayed -- 2005, 2006
Philadelphia Sketch Club
Juror -- "Works on Paper" 2005
Coney Island Museum, NY
"Mermaid Show" -- 2005
Rhode Island School of Design
Visiting artist: critique & lecture -- 2004
Albright Cultural Center, Reading PA
Broad Perspectives (7 paintings) -- 2004
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Biloxi Mississippi
Solo exhibit -- spring 2003
Brixton Art Gallery, London UK
Juried group exhibit -- 2002
Posada San Jose, Mexico City MEXICO
2 1/2 story mural project -- 2001-02
Musikfest, Bethlehem PA
by competition:
Rotunda Gallery (4 paintings) & muralist -- 2001
Fundacion Valparaiso Mojacar SPAIN
Artist's residency award -- summer 2000
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art NJ
"The Aljira National 5ive" exhibit, juried -- 1999
The H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore
John Yau, juror "The Next Century" -- 1999
Change Grant -- 1999
check signed by R. Rauschenburg
