About
Described as sculpture, high-tech fiber art, and light painting, Joyce Crain’s artwork defies categorization. It emphasizes new materials, interaction with light, movement, and changeability. It is known for its dynamic and visually engaging qualities. She works with clients, designers, and architects to conceive site-specific commissions that integrate with the architecture to sustain a lasting interest for those who will use the space. Employing a range of approaches and a variety of materials, she has created several series and draws from them to produce a unique solution for each project.
Her work has been shown in solo and invitational group exhibitions worldwide. She created many architectural commissions and her work is in museum, public, and private collections. In addition, Joyce created ten large scale Art in Public Places commissions. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships.
This video is of a lecture given by Joyce Crain about her artistic path in the fall of 2015.
"Your work is so distinctive, so strong, fluid, changing, progressive, so dynamic, yet solid, not fleeting, light, facile, cute. It is hard, I think, to be contemporary and not be clever / cute / facile / light / easy – or the reverse, morose. To just get it right while standing / living in the middle of it: to not let it crush you, blind you, dazzle you, smoke you. To just be with it and you and create – And you do it, which is why to me, your work is so good."
Mark Greenside, Author