Ann craven Time press le confort moderne association l’oreille est hardie 185, rue du faubourg du pont-neuf 86000 Poitiers Tel : +33 (0)5 49 46 08 08 www.confort-moderne.fr exhi- bITION Ann craven / time from may 28th to august 24th 2014 Gallery of Le Confort Moderne Opening - Wednesday May 28th at 7pm From Wednesday to Saturday Less Playboy Is More Cowboy 2pm to 7pm, Discolowcost, Débruit & Alsarah, Sunday 2pm to 6pm Acid Arab et FREE ENTRANCE FREE ENTRANCE

"Ann Craven is fundamentally a painter. She paints the moon. Sometimes birds, flowers, critters or diagonal colored bands. She painted 400 moons, not as an ephemeris, but as if the eternal face’s pale light summoned the distant or missing loved ones, in a nocturnal reverie where the brush would be master of ceremonies. The works silently carry that emotional weight. Then the artist copies those same moons, to challenge a persistent demand that always wants to produce an original. This stubbornly repetitive work is imbued with great spiritual inwardness, in way of harmonizing the mind, the body, and the breath, with a rigorous practice where painting becomes a climax in life’s physiological rhythm. She paints obsolete subjects as she knows the symbolic power of the images that accompany us, even the most insignificant: the images without content kept by our grandmothers, for no real reason, the bons points that the schoolboy proudly pins in his room ... Her bird or flower series endlessly collapse painting’s essential relationship between figure and ground, the vibration of dazzling colors that are all signs of time. As one color is applied Craven draws a diagonal line on a canvas. Nothing is lost, everything is "made painting" and all are of equal importance to her eyes, being it a copy, an original, a color palette, abstract bands, or birds on a branch."

François Quintin, "Une pensée pour Ann", in Ann Craven, shadows moon and abstract lies. Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims. JRP Ringier édition, Zurich, 2009

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To select a group of Ann Craven’s works to organize an exhibition seems simple at first since all the works originate from an identical process, crossed by recurring motifs, and sharing a style that is immediately recognizable. One considers selecting the works randomly by bringing together subjects, motifs or formats. It then strikes us the exceptional amount of work produced by the artist, and it comes to mind that the only valid exhibition would be to all gather, to show everything. Again a problem, the warehouse gallery is not large enough ... Once this first hypothesis was dismissed with regret, we chose to highlight several fundamental ideas in Craven’s work: time, profusion, system and attachment. Time A fundamental aspect of Craven’s work lies in its ability to register itself within time. Behind each canvas, we irreparably find the same information: year, month, day, and even the hour of completion of the works. A vain attempt to secure the passing of time, to retain the evanescent memories, to feel once again the emotions that had accompanied the brush. The exhibition brings together the whole collection of works painted in 2013, hung in the order that they where made. This objective chronology partially structures the exhibition. Profusion The exhibition features over 200 works by the artist; it is her most substantial exhibition. This quantitative element cannot stand as a critical argument therefore it helps to understand the intensity of the work, both the abnegation and voracity of the artist, and gives a new dimension to the idea of series, paramount in her work. A Seamless System Painting is often a history of systems and the one set up by the artist is impressive. Ann paints in series, motifs found on the spot at first, as the moons painted outdoors in her native Maine. These primal works are what she calls her laboratory, a collection of paintings that serve as her reservoir. These paintings are reinterpreted, reframed, resized in the studio to make new works emerge. The paint used is recycled into diagonal stripes on other canvases and the palettes also become paintings. Everything is recycled and a distance to the original subject is created, while keeping its memory. An attempt to empty the subject from its meaning, from its original story, to reduce it to the state of motif. A Sustained Sympathy Despite the systematic activity and infinite reproduction of subjects without an a priori quality, a sustained sympathy installs itself amidst Craven’s works. A persistent affection operates in front of each canvas, as if each of its flowers, its moons, its birds, and its trees referred us to a past love, a lost friendship, a loved one that one remembers with nostalgia and goodwill. Yann Chevallier

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 “Ann Craven”, Maccarone, New York "Ann Craven", Hello Hello Hello, Southard Reid, London 2011 “Summer”, Southard Reid, Londre "Ann Craven", Great Jones 39, New York, NY "Ann Craven", Galerie Forsblom, Helsinski, Finland "Watercolors 2005-2010", Maccarone, New York 2010 "Flowers", Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY "Ann Craven", Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 2009 "Shadows Moon", CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium "Puff Puff", Conduits Gallery, Milan, Italy "Golden Swamp Warbler", Galerie LHK, Paris, France 2008 "Against the Stream", Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY "Shadows moon", Frac-Champagne-Ardenne; Reims, France "Snoom", Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE "Moon Birds", Knoedler & Co., New York, NY "Moon Birds", Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 "Deer and Beer LA", Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA 2006 "Ann Craven", Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium "Ann Craven", Klemens Gasser + Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY "Deer + Beer", Klemens Gasser + Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY 2005 "Ann Craven", Angstrum Gallery, Dallas, Texas "A Poppy is a Poppy is a Poppy", The New York Horticulture Society, NY 2004 After Nature, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Domestic, Los Angeles, CA Ann Craven, Galleria Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co., Milan, Italy Ann Craven, Klemens Gasser + Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY This Way no This way, Aut Aut,Mario Diacono, Boston, MA

Installation View : Ann Craven, Hello, Hello, Hello, Southard Reid Courtesy of Southard Reid

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 "A Poem For Raoul And Agnes", curated by Sherman Sam, Ancient & Modern, London (Forthcoming) "Ann Craven and Marianne Vitale", Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris "Staging Interruptions (Stream Of Life)", curated by Sarina Basta and Mary Reinbold, Southard Reid, London "Personal Space", Essex Flowers, New York 2013 "Forthcoming: A Poem For Raoul And Agnes", curated by Sherman Sam, Ancient & Modern, London "Island", curated by Sarina Basta, The Dairy Art Center, London "Beer", curated by Drew Heitzler, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee "The Cat Show", curated by Rhonda Lieberman, White Columns, New York "Station Identification", Michael Benevento, Los Angeles "Souvenir", curated by Lucie Fontaine, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France "Femminile Plurale", curated by Sara Boggio, Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy "The Amazing Shoemaker", Fairy Tales About Shoes and Shoemakers, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, Florence, Italy "39greatjones", curated by Ugo Rondinone, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland 2012 "Painting as a Radical Form", curated by Mario Diacono, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy "La Fête Est Permanente #4", FRAC Champagne-Ardenne 2011-12 Aquisitions, Museé de L’Ardenne, Charleville- Mézières, France "Estate", curated by Lucie Fontaine, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY "Sous le Signe du Cancer", curated by , Galerie des Multiples, Paris, France "Howling at the Moon", Dickinson Gallery, New York, NY "The Spirit Level", curated by Ugo Rondinone, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY "Modern Talking", curated by Nicola Trezzi, Cluj Museum, Cluj, Romania 2011 Ann Craven, YOUNG BUCK (The Life of the Fawn), 2010 "Just ask Alice", curated by Amy Granat 2010, Oil on canvas, 108 x 72 inches and Joao Simoes, Fitzroy Gallery, New Courtesy of the artist, Maccarone, and Southard Reid York, NY Photo credit: Mark Woods

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"Four Rooms", CSW Zamek, Warsaw, Poland "Heads with Tails", organized by West Street Gallery, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY "8 Americans, organized by Keith Mayerson", Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium "Painting... EXPANDED", curated by Marysol Nieves, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico "Chaos as Usual", Bergen Kunsthall, Norway "Kilkenny Arts Festival", Ireland, Organized byJosephine Kelliher, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin "Ying Yang Music", in collaboration w/ Peter Halley, curated by Amy Granat, Non-Objectif Sud, Tulette, France "The Medicine Bag", Organized by Ellen Langan and Jasmine Tsou, Maccarone, New York "Rituels", La Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris "Painting Overall", Prague Biennale, curated by Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova in collaboration with Nicola Trezzi, Czech Republic "A Painting Show", Curated by Laura Raicovich and Jessie Washburne-Harris, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY "The Great White way Goes Black", Vilma Gold, London "HYSTERIA, LAUGHTER AND A SENSE OF SERIOUSNESS", Conceived by Mareike Dittmer & Raphael Gygax, Karma International and Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich "Oh Deer!", Organized by Bk Projects, Drive-By, Watertown, MA 2010 "Neo Integrity: Comics Edition", curated by Keith Meyerson, Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY "Exhibition #3", Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY "CAA Exhibition, Organized by Michelle Grabner:" Ann Craven, Peter Halley and Jon Pestoni, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL "White Columns Xerox Editions", White Columns, New York, NY "Picturing the Studio", Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL 2009 "Hello, Mr. McGrudder", Benson-Keys Ann Craven, Rosa Rugosa (Cushing, 7-7-13, 6:30PM), 2013 Arts, South Hampton, NY 2013, Oil on linen, 14 x 10 inches "No Bees No Blueberries", curated by Courtesy of the artist, Maccarone and Southard Reid Sarina Basta and Tyler Colburn, Harris Photo : Ann Craven Studio

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Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY "North Drive Press Benefit", White Columns, New York, NY, "Collection of… Works from the collections of: Michael Clifton, Clarissa Dalrymple, Matt Keegan, Cary Leibowitz, Amie Scally and Linda Yablonsky", White Columns, New York, NY "Whitney Art Party", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, June "Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL "Farimani Fundraiser", Starr Space, Brooklyn, NY "XOXO", Apartment Show, New York, NY "Strip/ Stripe": A project by Test, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY "White Columns Xerox Editions", Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL "If The Dogs Are Barking", Apartment Show at , New York, NY 2008 "Blank Complexity", curated by Karma International, Parisa Kind Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany Nov 5 - 26, 2008, by Joao Simoes, Emily Harvey foundation, NY, NY "Catawamus" (for H.D.), curated by Matt Keegan and Amy Granat, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN "Pretty Ugly", curated by Alison Gingeras, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY "Tales of the Grotesque", curated by Gianni Jetzer; Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland. "Fair Market", curated by Haley Mellin, Rental, New York, NY "You Said He Said She Said", Selier + Mosseri-Marlio Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland "White Flag Projects; Cinema Zero", curated by Amy Granat , St. Louis, MO "The Searchers", Curated by Amoreen Armetta and Molly Dilworth, PNCA, Portland, Oregon "Thank You For Coming, Triple Candie 2001-2008", Triple Candie, New York, NY. "Accidental Modernism", curated by Christopher Eamon; Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY

Ann Craven, Rosa Rugosa (Cushing, 7-7-13, 8PM), 2013 2013, Oil on linen, 14 x 10 inches Courtesy of the artist, Maccarone and Southard Reid Photo : Ann Craven Studio

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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

"The New Museum of Contemporary Art", New York "Whitney Museum of American Art", New York, NY "The Museum of Contemporary Art", Chicago, Illinois "The , New York", NY "Frac-Champagne-Ardenne", Reims, France "The Museum of Contemporary Art", North Miami, Florida "Henry Art Gallery, Faye G. Allen Center for the Visual Arts", Seattle, Washington

EditionS

2013 Forthcoming: "11,000 Magenta Mistakes (100 Portfolios) 2008 – 2013", 4 offset prints, 45 x 32 cm each, in a silkscreen portfolio, 48 x 38 cm each, Edition of 100, Numbered and Signed, Published by Ann Craven and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, 2013 2012 "16,000 Mistakes (100 Portfolios) 2008 – 2011", 4 offset prints, 45 x 32 cm each, in a silkscreen portfolio, 48 x 38 cm each, Edition of 100, Numbered and Signed, Published by Ann Craven and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, 2012 2011 "Ann Craven", Art Production Fund, Dorado Beach Resort, Puerto Rico "Pink Bird With Cherries (Pink)", Reduction Woodblock Print, 30 x 33 1/2 in, Edition of 12, The Leroy Neiman Center For Print Studies, 2011 "Pink Bird With Cherries (Blue)", Reduction Woodblock Print, 30 x 33 1/2 in, Edition of 12, The Leroy Neiman Center For Print Studies, 2011 "Silhouette Bird (Pink)", Reduction Woodblock Print, 30 x 33 1/2 in, Edition of 4, The Leroy Neiman Center For Print Studies, 2011 "Silhouette Bird (Blue)", Reduction Woodblock Print, 30 x 33 1/2 in, Edition of 4, The Leroy Neiman Center For Print Studies, 2011 Ann Craven "Chow Benefit Print", 2 Color Woodcut Ann Craven Sans titre (Cushing, Weed Flowers, 7-3- Print, 15 x 11 in, Edition of 75, The Weeds (Cushing, 7-4-13, 8PM) 2013 13, 7-4-13), 2013 Leroy Neiman Center For Print Studies, 2013, Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches 2013, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches 2011 Courtesy of the artist, Maccarone and Courtesy of the artist, Maccarone and Southard Reid Southard Reid Photo : Ann Craven Studio Photo : Ann Craven Studio

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2013 "Ann Craven at Maccarone", Week in Review, Contemporay Art Daily, December 7th, 2013, Reinbold, Mary Margaret. "Ann Craven, Southard Reid, London", Flash Art, International Edition, no. 293, November-December 2013 Ann Craven, "Pensée", La Lettura (Cover) #93, Corriere della Sera, Milan, September 1, 2013 Ann Craven Pensées, published by Karma ©2013 and Maccarone Gallery, New York, designed by An Art Service, printed and bound in Hong Kong, ISBN 978-1-938560-02-6 Paparoni, Demetrio. "Ann Craven, Birds, Deers, Cats and Flowers", Arte Al Limite, p. 40, May-June 2013 FRUCHTIG, Die Frucht in der bildenden Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, catalogue published by Stiftung fur Fruchtmalerei und Skulptur, Heidelberg, 2013 Ann Craven, Portfolio, Art In America, June-July, 2013. For this issue, the artist (Ann Craven) contributes a portfolio featuring four recent 60-inch square "Tree" and "Moon" paintings, which she photographed outside her studio in Cushing, Maine "The Estate of Lucie Fontaine", edited by Veronica Levitt and Nicola Trezzi, texts by Elena Tavecchia and Nicola Trezzi, published by Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 2013, printed by The Avery Group at Shapco Printing, Minneapolis, ISBN 978-0-9882752-4-9 Paparoni, Demetrio. "Ferragamo Il Calzolaio, Una Grande Mostra a Firenze", Artribune, April 2013, The Amazing Shoemaker, edited by Stefania Ricci, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, published by SKIRA Editore, Milan, 2013, printed and bound in Italy, ISBN 978-88-572-1928-8 "39greatjones", exhibition catalogue designed by ACRUSH, published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, 2013

Ann Craven, 2013, Installation view, Maccarone, New York Photo: Jeffrey Sturges Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone

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