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Ann Craven

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Ann Craven: Night

KARMA BOOKS, NEW YORK
Text by Richard Kalina, Susan Howe. Conversation with Ann Craven, Jay Sanders.

New compositions of earthly delights under the veil of night, from the painter known for her joyful depictions of birds, trees, flowers and more

Hbk, 11 x 11 in. / 124 pgs / 71 color. | 12/17/2024 | Awaiting stock
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Ann Craven: Twelve Moons

SCAD MUSEUM OF ART
Edited by Rainer Diana Hamilton, Ariana Reines, Daniel S. Palmer.

With a lush and sensuous palette, Craven renders the changing cycles of the moon with an intimate sense of memory

Clth, 11 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 113 color. | 2/6/2024 | In stock
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Ann Craven: Animals, Birds, Flowers, Moons

KARMA BOOKS, NEW YORK
Text by Keith Mayerson, Durga Chew-Bose. Interview by Lois Dodd.

A panorama of painterly motifs, combined and reprised

Clth, 11 x 11 in. / 108 pgs / 39 color. | 7/13/2021 | Out of stock
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Ann Craven: Birds We Know

KARMA BOOKS, NEW YORK/CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART
Foreword by Suzette McAvoy. Text by Christopher B. Crosman.

Permutation and portraiture: serial paintings of moons, stripes and the birds of Maine by Ann Craven

Hbk, 11 x 11 in. / 112 pgs / 82 color. | 11/12/2019 | Out of stock
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Ann Craven: Shadows Moon and Abstract Lies

JRP|RINGIER
Edited by Florence Derieux. Text by Amy Granat, Matt Keegan, Josh Smith, Fraçois Quintin.

Hbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 64 pgs / 68 color. | 8/31/2009 | Not available
$35.00


Ann Craven: Twelve MoonsAnn Craven: Twelve Moons

Published by SCAD Museum of Art.
Edited by Rainer Diana Hamilton, Ariana Reines, Daniel S. Palmer.

Organized by the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Twelve Moons presents the visionary works of American painter Ann Craven (born 1967), known for her vibrant depictions of the moon and the night sky. Through her practice of painting en plein air, Craven captures the conditions she observes over the course of the lunar cycle, which then become the inspiration for her larger monumental compositions. In an extensive series, Craven creates a captivating panorama that encompasses the cycles of the moon throughout the 2022 lunar year. Often painting from the same viewpoint, Craven’s nocturnal yet tranquil compositions sometimes only differ in the light that the moon casts on her surroundings. Twelve Moons forms a distinct chapter in Craven’s oeuvre, showcasing her ongoing fascination with the wonders of the natural phenomena that surround us.



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Ann Craven: NightAnn Craven: Night

Published by Karma Books, New York.
Text by Richard Kalina, Susan Howe. Conversation with Ann Craven, Jay Sanders.

This catalog, accompanying Karma’s three-part exhibition of new paintings by Ann Craven (born 1967), surveys major motifs of the artist’s nearly 30-year-long practice. For the first time, she has set all of her scenes in the darkness of evening, creating a consistent chromatic background that intensifies her always-vibrant colors. These oils of moons, trees, birds, flowers and deer constitute the latest chapter in her systematic catalog of what she terms “revisitations,” each of which is also a reinvention of her subject matter. In this body of work, and across her practice, figuration morphs into kaleidoscopic abstraction and back again, each canvas resisting easy categorization in favor of pure feeling. In addition to a lush plate section, this volume features an intimate conversation between the artist and curator Jay Sanders, an expansive art-historical essay by Richard Kalina and poems written and collected in dedication to Craven by Susan Howe.



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Karma Books, New York

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Hardcover, 11 x 11 in. / 124 pgs / 71 color.

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Ann Craven: Animals, Birds, Flowers, MoonsAnn Craven: Animals, Birds, Flowers, Moons

Published by Karma Books, New York.
Text by Keith Mayerson, Durga Chew-Bose. Interview by Lois Dodd.

Ann Craven (born 1972) superimposes source photographs, historical works and her own paintings, creating mediated images that feature layer upon layer of referentiality—a collage of her most treasured curios. Peacocks showcase their plumage; birds perch on a branch; a trio of horses pose “just so.” Through these acts of creation and recreation, Craven becomes both master and copyist, citing herself in her own art historical lineage.
Animals, birds, flowers, moons: Craven’s motifs are in themselves an incantation—a wish to repeat, reencounter, relive. In keeping with this process of revisitation, Craven’s paintings are repeated in threes throughout this fully illustrated catalog, mimicking the tripartite structure of her Animals Birds Flowers Moons exhibition. The book is divided into three parts, each paired with one of three texts: two newly commissioned essays by Durga Chew-Bose and Keith Mayerson, and a 2021 interview between Craven and Lois Dodd.



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Clth, 11 x 11 in. / 108 pgs / 39 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2021 p. 110   

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Ann Craven: Birds We KnowAnn Craven: Birds We Know

Published by Karma Books, New York/Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
Foreword by Suzette McAvoy. Text by Christopher B. Crosman.

Birds We Know is the catalog for an exhibition of paintings by New York–based artist Ann Craven (born 1967). This large survey at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art is the artist's first exhibition in Maine, where she has been living part-time and painting since the early 1990s. It was at her farm house in Lincolnville, Maine, inspired by the colors of the natural environment, that Craven completed her very first moon painting in 1995; she says her time in Lincolnville "gave me my subject matter." The new exhibition and catalog include the imagery that Craven is renowned for including her lushly colored, mesmerizing moon and stripe paintings, but here the birds dominate as the primary subject, including work made between 1997 and 2019. The book includes an essay by Christopher B. Crosman, formerly of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Farnsworth Art Museum.



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Karma Books, New York/Center for Maine Contemporary Art

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Hardcover, 11 x 11 in. / 112 pgs / 82 color.

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Ann CravenAnn Craven

Published by Karma, New York.
Text by David Salle, Sarah French, Dana Miller.

The latest in Karma's series of comprehensive overviews of artist practices, this substantial, 560-page volume collects 20 years of work by New York painter Ann Craven (born 1967), covering her series of moons, birds, palettes, animals and flowers. Craven is well known for these mesmerizing portraits, whose serial character affirms the prayer-like sense of attention informing their dailiness, as well as for her "stripe" or "band" paintings, of which she says: "my paintings are a result of mere observation, experiment and chance and contain a variable that’s constant and ever-changing—the moment just past. The stripes are so I can see what I just mixed … it is a memory and a documentation of the work at the same time." The most substantial overview yet published on this virtuoso painter, the book includes essays by David Salle, Sarah French and Dana Miller.



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Hardcover, 7.25 x 9 in. / 560 pgs / 550 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 116   

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Ann Craven: Shadows Moon and Abstract LiesAnn Craven: Shadows Moon and Abstract Lies

Published by JRP|Ringier.
Edited by Florence Derieux. Text by Amy Granat, Matt Keegan, Josh Smith, Fraçois Quintin.

Ann Craven's serial paintings of moons, birds and abstractions reflect the example of predecessors such as Vija Celmins, Allan McCollum and Agnes Martin, whose standards of precision are inseparable from the physiological rhythms of their lives as applied to their art. Among her contemporaries are Wade Guyton, Kelley Walker and Josh Smith.

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Hardcover, 8 x 11.25 in. / 64 pgs / 68 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 133   

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