About
Described as sculpture, fiber art and light painting, Joyce Crain’s artwork defies categorization. She works with clients including 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. Influenced by her environment, her work emphasizes interaction with light, movement, and changeability.
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 eight 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