John Robert Craft ocrcraft@gmail.com Live and Work: Clarendon, Texas Born: Clarendon, Texas 1962 Solo Shows: 2010 Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas Jack Craft . “A Cell of One’s Own” 2010 The Object Gallery, Amarillo, Texas “Solid Proof” sculpture and prints
2009 "Point and Proof" installation at Exhibitions2d Marfa, Texas 2007 Studio Duende, McKinney, Texas Group Shows: Selected
2010-Scott Krichau and John Robert Craft at Generator Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. Curated by Ben Meisner and David Leigh.
2010-Advancing Tradition, Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press, a traveling exhibition co-curated by Mark l. Smith Ph.D, and Katie Robinson Edwards, Ph.D (scheduled)
2010-Philagrafika at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery prints from Autumn 2009 new prints IPCNY curated by Jose Roca.
2009-New Prints Autumn/2009 at the International Print Center New York, New York 2009 Press Release, A Collection of Artist From Three Print Shops. 222 Shelby Street Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico 2009 Iron Tribe Show, Highlands University, Las Vegas New Mexico 2010-2006: Henry Cisneros Memorial Show, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, New Mexico 2009 Imagillaboration Florida College, Jacksonville, Florida 2009 Imagillaboration University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida 2009 Imagillaboration Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta, Georgia 2008 Western Contemporary Cast Iron Conference, Denver, Colorado 2008 Iron Tribe Traveling Show: Moss-Thorne Gallery Hayes, Kansas 2008 12x12 Exhibition, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas 2007 Print Making Now, Rockport Center for the Arts, curated by Katherine Brimberry Flatbed Press 2007 Made @ Flatbed: Recent Editions, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas. Curated by Mark Smith PhD 2007 12x12 Exhibition, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas Education: 1996-1997 Self financed travel to Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand 1985 BA, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 1984 studied in London England at Institute of European Studies Iron Pours: 2009-2002 Tucumcari Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, New Mexico 2008 Hosted first iron pour of the Arctic Trail of Pours that ended inside the Arctic Circle in Alaska 2007 Down on the Farm Iron Pour, Decorah, Iowa 2007 Iron Tribe Iron Pour, Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico Printing: 2009 Flatbed Press—Worked with Master Printer Katherine Brimberry to co-publish four limited edition large scale wood cut prints. 2008 Interbang Press--Worked with master printer Mitchell Marti to produce a series of direct trace mono-type prints and reverse trace mono-type prints. 2007 Interbang Press--Worked with Master Printer Mitchell Marti to execute 20 reverse trace mono-type prints. 2006 Flatbed Press-- Worked with Master Printer Katherine Brimberry to execute 60 reverse trace mono-type prints including: 3- 50"x50"prints and 1-50"x96" print. Biblography: 2009 Point and Proof installation reviewed on "Minus Space" an online platform for reductive art on an international level 2009 Point and Proof installation reviewed on "GlassTire" the Texas online arts source. 2009 February Texas Highways Magazine, “Marfalous!” Video: 2007 Wrote, Directed and Produced a short movie / artist statement titled “Objects of Martial Passion”, publicly shown at 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM Collections: Private collections in USA, and UK Galleries: Exhibitions 2d, Marfa, Texas Flatbed Press Gallery, Austin, Texas
