Gail Crum Analysis

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Gail Crum Gail Crum is a local artist working out of Avon Lake. She specializes in three dimensional art and uses mainly collage, assemblage and mixed media. Her work has been featured in articles in The North Ridgeville Press, The Elyria Chronicle, the Westlife, and the Avon Lake Press. She has been showing her work for about 15 years. She has two pieces in the Skeleton art show at Lakeland Community College called House of Horrors and Puppet show. House of Horrors uses the assemblage method which is basically taking multiple items, sometimes unrelated, and putting them together in a way that can bring a deeper meaning to the individual pieces. Crum used a variety of methods and materials to make ‘House of Horrors’. First she created…show more content…
It’s symmetrical, textural, superbly done, has an interesting focal point (a baby dolls head, yikes!) and most importantly has strong intellectual content. Puppet Show, though it is symmetrical and balanced and offers a lot to look at, theres just something about it that rubs me the wrong way. I feel like the heaviness of the box and the fabric eccentuates how feeble the puppets are. I feel like she could have made them more puppet-like or at least brought some of the glitter to the skeletons. I feel like the meaning of this piece was completely lost on me, especially when compared with House of Horrors. House of Horrors could be about any number of social topics, abortion, death of a child, death of your inner child, or displaying all of the things your keeping bottled up inside of your own house of…show more content…
It wasn’t until I took my first art class about 15 years ago that I became inspired to try something new and different on my own. I started collecting materials and objects and hunted for unusual boxes and containers. I then put them together until I felt they fit in a harmonious way and made an artistic statement. I now see everything in a different way...”how can I use this object to create a work of art?” With my art I try to transform the objects original identity into a new one; one that expresses my thoughts and

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