Crystal Cox started painting again in 2013, professionally in 2015 after a series of personal storms subsided. “My life vascillated between fairy tales and nightmares, I grew during the nightmares.” She says “the act of painting and playing with different materials always transports me into a mindless, peaceful focused world where I can relax, escape and create. That ability to escape helped me heal."
From prominent galleries to Art Basel in Miami to show houses in the Southeast, Crystal is now focused on being an independent artist “at least for a little while” she says. Crystal uses a combination of mixed media to create her abstract pieces: collage, acrylic, oil, pastels, 24k gold leaf, vintage magazines from the 50’s and 60’s, pharmacy ledgers in French, old sheet music from Germany, beautiful ephemera from the 1800’s. “It’s all an opportunity to me.”
Crystal feels she is a self taught artist even though she graduated with a BFA from SMU in Dallas. “I probably learned the basics in art school, but I really learned my sense of color, composition and texture from my parents. My interior designer mother loved to draw her client’s rooms, discuss the details of the furnishings she picked, my engineer father painted landscapes in oils with structures in the background in perfect perspective” Certainly a good lesson from both right and left brained people in her life.
The use of old magazines in Crystal’s work is an homage to her childhood in the 60’s and 70’s. “That era was rife with style and color, classic design was being born every day. I lived it through my parents. It was a fantastic world to absorb things for my art today.”
Crystal is currently working on a new collection that uses every element of my work the last several years. The group is a neutral collection with bits of color popping through from the under layers, a lot of gold leaf and texture. "I'm using a married palette in this group so each painting will have a little of every single color mixed into each other. It takes concentration, focus, test palettes and note taking to keep this consistent in each body of work. When the pieces are finished literally every single color on the painting will "match" because the are all created from the same base."
A new studio is in the works for Crystal with an opening party to be announced.
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