Chris Cran: Manifesto…What’s Next.

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Chris Cran, "Manifesto...what's next." 2020

Since  his most recent solo exhibitions: Chris Cran: It’s Still My Vault at the Nickle Galleries (2019), and Chris Cran: At Play at Glenbow Museum (2019), Chris Cran has continued to play in his studio, with a twinkle in his eye and gleam in his smile. Play is the one activity that, when performed freely, naturally, regularly, and without anxiety, leads the artist – any artist – into the realm of surprise, discovery,  and to solutions to challenges, and  – more importantly – to  innovation.

Nancy Tousley, curator of Chris Cran: At Play, commented critically on the notion of play in Cran’s studio:

Of course, Cran at play is also Cran at work. The difference between the two  activities is this: when the artist plays he uses his studio more as a lab than as a site of production and ignores the rules. At various times in his career, the well-known Calgary-based painter has engaged in periods of intense creative play, trying out a new idea, material or tool, or sometimes all three, and following the lead of one thing to another as something grabs his attention. The questions he asks himself are “What next?” “What next?” “What next?”

Nancy Tousley, One New Work – Chris Cran: At Play, Glenbow Museum, 2019, pp. 2-3

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CHRIS CRAN BIO:

Chris Cran (born 1949, Ocean Falls, British Columbia) lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated in 1979 from the Alberta College of Art and Design (now the Alberta University of the Arts).  He has exhibited nationally and internationally; some recent exhibitions of note include: Chris Cran: It’s Still My Vault at the Nickle Galleries (2019);  Chris Cran: At Play at Glenbow Museum (2019); Chris Cran: Waiting in the Waiting Room at the Loewenbraeu-Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland (2018); and Chris Cran: Sincerely Yours at the National Gallery of Canada (2016) in a large survey exhibition (1984 – 2016) that combined exhibitions from the Art Gallery of Alberta (2015) and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2015). He was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002,  and is the recipient of the ACAD Alumni Award of Excellence in 2011 and the Doug and Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award in 2014. As well, he was awarded the Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s Lawrence J. Burpee Medal in 2018.