Craig Barrack

Craig Barrack
541 Isham Street,3b
New York,NY 10034
212 569 8512


Born: 1972: New York, New York

Resides: New York City

Education: 1990-1994 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY


Solo Exhibitions:

2007 O.K Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

2007 Il Sole II, New York, NY

2007 Uptown Art Stroll, New York, NY

1995 ABC No Rio Art Gallery, New York, NY


Group Exhibits:

2007 “Visions of Northern Manhattan” Alianza Art Gallery, New York, NY

1996 Staff exhibit, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1994 Charras El Bohio, New York, NY

1991 Staff exhibit, Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY



Bibliography:

Daily News, “No –Man’s land for art” Keren Schultz, June 10, 2007

Manhattan Times “Art seen uptown” Mike Fitelson , April 10,2008

My focus is on the urban landscape. I look to capture the complexity of the city with its
layering of history, meaning and function. Many of my paintings deal with elements of movement and transition such as bridges, trains, highways and rivers.


I work in pastel as it affords me maximum immediacy, color intensity and textural richness. The fragility and purity of pastel gives a unique working experience.


I work primarily from imagination of remembered scenes, sensations and desires. I start with a line drawing and add blocks of color and tone as I progress.


My works main concern is with the urban environment and its attendant qualities of seriality, mystery and implacability. I seek to reflect on the raw functionalism of the American landscape and its non-spaces. The human relationship to these spaces is
stressed in my work by revealing the need for projection, escapism and fantasy, when confronted by such indifferent surroundings.