"My art feeds the intuitive rather than the rational. But if you were to put a gun to my head, I'd say mood, composition, and color are three words that describe my work best. When I'm painting, those are the three elements I'm most focused on,"
"I spent most of my 20s avoiding life by going to grad school. Not a strategy I'd recommend,"
"As I was just starting, I found more than a few better-established artists than myself, and curators, willing to talk with me. I really appreciated that,"
Jonathan Crow creates American Realist paintings that prioritize evoking feelings and ideas beyond verbal description. The work emphasizes mood, composition, and color as primary elements focused on during painting. Crow combines formal film education and Japanese Studies with largely self-taught painting practice and occasional workshops. He lived in rural Ohio, Boston, Japan, Ann Arbor, and Los Angeles before relocating to the Bay Area when his wife took a tech job. Crow spent many years in the film industry and values the Bay Area art scene for its welcoming, down-to-earth community and willingness of established artists and curators to engage.
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