Orbits, 2012, Acrylic, Charcoal
Join the opening reception featuring works by the late Craig Keith Antrim (1942- 2022) artist, teacher and San Pedro resident on Nov. 19. The exhibition will be on view until Dec. 30.
Painter Craig Keith Antrim was born and grew up in Pasadena California. He began his college career at the University of California Santa Barbara as a pre-med zoology student but found that art was better suited to his interests. He received a bachelor’s degree in art with honors, his emphasis in painting and drawing. He continued his education at Claremont Graduate School where he graduated in 1970 with a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing.
He initially settled in San Pedro and established a studio on Sixth Street next to a number of established artists such as Jay McCafferty and Dustin Schuler and after a brief sojourn to Inglewood settled permanently in San Pedro in 2001.
Antrim wedded spirituality with the sensual in his work. Much of his work was influenced by his understanding of philosophy, Jungian psychology, and the philosophy of Joseph Campbell. Spiritual iconography appears, evolves, disappears, and reappears in a variety of reductive abstract guises – paint often revealing embedded forms, symbols, and fragments evocative of mandalas. He was highly regarded as a painter, teacher and mentor to hundreds of students during his 50-year career in higher education.
Antrim has had numerous solo and group shows throughout California, Washington, Japan, and Korea. His work was included in the highly acclaimed 1986 show, The Spiritual in Art – Abstract Painting 1890 – 1985, held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This show traveled to the prestigious Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago IL, and the Haag Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland.
Antrim’s work can be found in the collections of The Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, Palm Springs Desert Museum, University of California Los Angeles Grunewald Center and the National Endowment for the Arts. Look for him in L.A. Rising, SoCal Artists Before 1980 by Lyn Kienholz. He can also be found in Art Today, Art in the 80’s and American Art Now as well as numerous other art catalogs and publications.
For additional information call 310-600-4873.
Craig Keith Antrim Selected Works
Time: 4 to 7 p.m., Nov. 19
Cost: Free
Details: http://www.spacedistrict.org/a/gallery478
Venue: Transvagrant and Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro