Tim CrowderTim Crowder
works | bio

born in 1956 in Sikeston, MO

education

1977-80

Memphis College of Art

selected solo exhibitions

2010

Building a Proper Wall, David Lusk Gallery

2008

Momentary Tales, David Lusk Gallery
Koelsch Gallery, Houston

2007

Ann Nathan, Chicago

2006

I Could Live Here, David Lusk Gallery,

2005

Tim Crowder: English Idyll, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago,

2003

David Lusk Gallery

2000

David Lusk Gallery

1998

Vita Gallery, Portland, OR
Big Babble, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery
Inarticulate Tales, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

1996

Pretty Natural World, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery

1995

Current Work, Cooper St. Gallery,

1992

Chain, Cooper Street Gallery

1990

Tame Tales and Big Dates, Memphis Center for Contemporary Art

1986

Recent Work, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

1985

The McCoy Theater, Rhodes College, Memphis

selected group exhibitions

2009

Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery
Works on Paper, David Lusk Gallery, New York

2007

Red Clay Reunion, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Price is Right 10, David Lusk Gallery
Southern Living's 2007 Idea House, David Lusk Gallery, Watersound, FL
Modern Hearth; Issues of Habitat and Lifestyle in Contemporary Expression,
Space 301, Mobile

2006

Flow, David Lusk Gallery, The Catalina Hotel, Miami
Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile
The Tullman Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery
Works on Paper, David Lusk Gallery, The Armory, New York

2005

The Red Clay Survey, 2005 Trienniel Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art,
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Delta Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Works on Paper, David Lusk Gallery, New York
Koelsche Gallery, Dallas
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

2004

Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

2003

San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco

2002

The Price is Right 5, Back With a Vengeance, David Lusk Gallery

2001

The Word in Art: The Use of Text in Contemporary Southern Art, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta
The Price is Right 3, Don't Stop `Til You Get Enough, David Lusk Gallery
Views of the Collection: Art With a Point of View, Huntsville, Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

2000

Burdette /Crowder/Reid, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago
Consider the Tomato, 2/000, Bank of Ripley, Ripley, TN
The Price is Right 2, Once is Never Enough, David Lusk Gallery
Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

1999

17th Annual September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
Price is Right, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery
Invitational Arts Exhibit, Arts in the Park, Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis
25th Prints, Drawings and Photographs Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Works on Paper, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, The Armory, New York
Memphis College of Art Biennial II, Memphis College of Art, Memphis

1998

Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
MAX 98, curated by Kim Levin, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis
Works on Paper, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, The Armory, New York

1997

Holiday, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery
40th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
The Boy Mechanic, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
ArtFair Seattle, Seattle
Memphis College of Art Biennial, Memphis College of Art, Memphis

1996

Tree As Icon, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery
ArtFair Seattle, Seattle

1995

Opening, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis

1994

A Few Good Men, Vanguard Gallery, Nashville

1993

Introductions, Harris Gallery, Houston
Gallery Artists, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

1992

Contemporary Uses of Wax & Encaustic, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

1991

New Paintings and Sculpture, Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis
Very Memphis!, Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville
New Paintings: Rick Beerhorst, Tim Crowder, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

1990

Landscape, Cooper St. Gallery, Memphis
Gallery Artists, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago
Summer Show, Paul Edelstein Gallery, Memphis

1989

Not Just Idle Chatter, Invitational Exhibit, 76 S. Main, Memphis

1989

Gallery Artist, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

awards and honors

2006

Purchase Award, Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile

2005

Grand Prize, Delta Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock

1999

Award winner 17th Annual September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA

1988

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

selected bibliography

The Commercial Appeal, Fredric Koeppel, Drawn to the clever side of art, April 14, 2006, p.26
At Home in Memphis, Chris McCoy, Tim Crowder: Inside the Vividly Surreal World of a Memphis Painter,
April, 2004, p.36-37
ArtNews, Cory Dugan, Tim Crowder March, 2004, p.138
Art Papers Magazine, Dorothy Joiner, The Red Clay Survey, May/June 2001, p. 38
New American Paintings, June 2001
New American Paintings, June 1999
New American Paintings, March 1997
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Regina Hackett, Panning For Art Gold Yields Nuggets At Fair, February 21, 1997
Commercial Appeal, Fred Burton, Crowder Works Convey Vitality, February 20, 1995
Memphis Flyer, L.D. Beghtol, Crowder's Paintings Explore a Mystical Realm, February 16-22, 1993
Commercial Appeal, , James DeRossitt, December 1992
Commercial Appeal, Rob McGowan, Crowder At Cooper St., 1992

selected collections

Autozone, Inc., Memphis
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH
Fidelity, Memphis and Charlotte
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
JMB Corporation, Chicago
Landers & Associates, Memphis
Promus Hotel Corporation Headquarters, Memphis
The Prudential Co., New York, NY
Nordstrom's Department Headquarters, Seattle
Nordstrom's Dallas, Miami, Detroit, Honolulu, Chicago
Walter Anderson, Inc., Chicago