Marcia Crumley is a Boston-based artist known for infusing bold and unexpected colors into her expressive landscapes and mixed media abstracts. She works primarily in acrylics, exploiting their saturated hues to full advantage.
Marcia’s recent solo exhibitions include:
• Colorscapes: Recent Landscapes, StoveFactory Gallery, Charlestown, MA, April 2016
• Artist of the Week, The Nice Niche (online-exhibit), Southampton, NY, May 2014
• Expressive Landscapes, Harris Berman Diversity Gallery, Tufts Health Plan, Watertown, MA, Feb through March 2014
• Artist of the month, Art@Blitz, Blitz Media, Waltham, MA, March 2013
• Artist of the month, Ardentlifemedia.com (online-exhibit), Los Angeles, CA March 2013
• Currents, StoveFactory Gallery, Charlestown, MA, November 2012
Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in Boston landmarks including International Place, Boston City Hall and the Prudential Center. She has also participated in local and national juried exhibitions, including:
• Darkness Into Light, Arlington (Mass) Center for the Arts, February 2016
• United South End Artists, Boston City Hall, July 2015
• 29th Annual Omer T. Lassonde Open Juried Exhibition, New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth, NH, April 2015
• Neighborhood Artists: Charlestown, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA, November 2013-March 2014
• Digital Exhibit: The Story of the Creative, See.Me Gallery, Long Island City, NY, 2013
• Rhode Island Watercolor Society: Winter around the World, Providence, RI, 2008
• Englewood Arts National Show, Englewood, Colorado, May 2008
• Art League of Hilton Head 2008 National Juried Show, Hilton Head, NC, 2008
Five of Marcia’s paintings were chosen for the set of Sea of Trees, the Gus Van Sant film released in August of 2016.
Marcia’s client list includes individual collectors across the U.S., as well as in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Her work is featured in several corporate art collections, including
• Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
• East Boston Community Health Center, Winthrop, MA
• American Tower, Woburn, MA
Marcia studied painting at Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is an artist member of the SoWa Artists Guild and the Artists’ Group of Charlestown and, and lives in Charlestown, MA
