EG Crichton

Biography

From http://egcrichton.ucsc.edu/
"E.G. Crichton is a visual artist who creates both gallery installations and collaborative public works. She uses a range of mediums to explore hidden histories, collective social concerns, and controversies about desire. Her subject matter grows out of a collusion between site and historical research, stories from her life, and stories from the lives of people she interviews. The resulting narratives form a layered exploration of both memory and recordan uneasy alliance between private and public voices and images that addresses a space where repression encounters desire.
"She lives in San Francisco, and is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz."

For the Phenomena(l) catalogue, EG Crichton writes, "The term 'matter out of place' is a definition of dirt by anthropologist Mary Douglas from her classic work 'Purity and Danger.' This project grows out of my interest in cultural notions of purity, cleanliness and civilization. These images are created first as chemical reactions between consumer cleaning products and then as digital apparitions. The results take on the appearance of microscopic, cosmic and aerial mapping, manifesting both a striking beauty and...the ordinariness of its representational ingredients. Through the visual seduction of pseudo-scientific imaging, I look for larger metaphors of disturbance and displacement."
EG Crichton earned her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and BA in Art from San Francisco State University. She has shown at Zokei University, Tokyo; Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn; Playspace Gallery, San Francisco; Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway; Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA; and more.