Chris Cran

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Chris Cran
Born1949 (1949)
Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada
Educationstudied at the Kootenay School of Art, Nelson, B.C. and Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) (Honours painting, 1979)
Known forartist

Chris Cran RCA (born 1949 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia)[1] is a Canadian visual artist, based in Calgary, Alberta.

Cran's work "investigates perception and illusion, and the viewer’s role in how images are formed...Widely exhibited across Canada and internationally recognized, Cran has become known for turning nothing into something, with the slightest push. Cran’s paintings, included in numerous Canadian collections, have to do with visual tricks, images that appear one way but have been made another way."[2] He has been described in The New York Times as a painter who "…has built a career on tampering with people’s perceptions."[3] In an article published in Galleries West, Jeffrey Spalding, who was senior curator at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in New Brunswick, described the 2015–2016 multi-partner major survey of Cran's work at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG), Lethbridge, Alberta as a "remarkable and unique career milestone" with exhibition organizers describing Cran as "influential" and "one of the country’s most notable painters of the last few decades."[4][5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NGC profile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Alberta artist Chris Cran announced as Keith Evans Memorial Scholarship recipient". Banff Centre. 10 November 2005. Retrieved 11 September 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ Kathryn Shattuck (7 July 1999). "Arts Abroad; Mixing Up Perceptions, on Canvas and Off, in Calgary". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
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  5. ^ Bruce McCulloch (11 September 2015). "Look Again: Chris Cran plays with perception, but he labours under no illusions" (Chris Cran, Swerve 2015). Swerve via Calgary Herald. Retrieved 11 September 2015.