My source material is my own continuing conversation with color and form.

That orbs and plains of color resemble Lunae is a coincidence. Metaphor is always welcome.

Katy Crowe (b. 1952) Tethys, 2025 Oil on linen 52 x 40 in KC0013 $ 10,000.00 USD



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Katy Crowe Lunae Orbitae

April 4 – May 3, 2026

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Katy Crowe was born in Pasadena, CA and has been a practicing abstract painter for 50 years.

After High School in NYC, she attended the Art Students League. Crowe received her BFA from the Santa Barbara Art Institute where she studied painting with James Jarvaise, and her MFA from MICA where her advisors were Babe Shapiro, Salvatore Scarpitta, and Edward Dugmore. After finishing her MFA, she lived in Paris, France where she met Michael Goldberg, who introduced her to Joan Mitchell, with whom she became friends.

Returning to Los Angeles in the early ‘80’s, she has been painting and exhibiting ever since. Her pursuit of painting is an ongoing dialog within the vocabulary of abstraction through the elements of color, line and form, using traditional materials (oil and linen), exploring various metaphors in nature and elsewhere, searching for balance and beauty.

Crowe’s work is in both private and public Collections such as the Broad Corp. Collection (Sun America), The Capitol Group, Deutsche Bank, The McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX. She lives and works in the Glassell Park area of Los Angeles. CV

COLLECTIONS

McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX Deutsche Bank, NYC Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA Broad Corp. Collection, Sun America, Los Angeles, CA Kajima Associates, Tokyo, Japan

EDUCATION

1978 MFA, Maryland Institute/College of Art

1974 BFA, Santa Barbara Art Institute

1971 Art Students League, NYC

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Koerner von Gustorf, Oliver, “Abstract Westcoast Women Painters,” ArtMag by Deutsche Bank, 2017 Christensen, Liz, “Her California Continuum,” catalog, Deutsche Bank, 2017 Linden, Ron, Decade+ Catalogue, Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery, 2011 Ribot, Esther, artUS 2011-2012, The Collector’s Edition Rickels, Laurence; artUS, January February 2007 Myers, Holly; Los Angeles Times, November 10, 2006 Jashinsky, Judy: art US, January-February 2004 Jashinsky, Judy; “Time Lines”, catalogue, Signal 66, 2003. Frank, Peter; LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week,” November 22-28, 1991. Wilson, William, Los Angeles Times, “A Few Fomenters of Neo Foment,” June 26, 1983. Knight, Christopher; Los Angeles Examiner, June 22, 1983. Hugo, Joan, ArtWeek, “Art Cousins Twice Removed,” July 16, 1983. Bernard, Paul, Baltimore City Paper, “Stylish Icons,” March 23, 1978. Raymond, Tim, Baltimore City Paper, “Relief in Arts Tower,” June 15, 1978.

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