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Lady McCrady
a/k/a McCrady Axon
Born 1951 Speedway City

I live and work in both New York and New Haven
95 Fenimore Street Brooklyn 11225
email contact

MFA painting Hunter College, CUNY 1990
School of Visual Art 1980
BFA painting Syracuse University School of Art 1973
Sir John Cass School of Art, London UK year abroad
Hartford Art School in HS grade 12


awards

Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 2010

Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven 2003

CT Commission on the Arts, 2002

CT association Principles, Circle of Light community installation 2001

Dan Rice ("Ken" in Red, Rothko play) studio grant 1996 - 1999

NEA - NEFA New England Foundation for the Arts, 1994

Guild Hall Museum, First purchase award by Larry Rivers, East Hampton NY 1988

Artists Space, NYC 1988

University of Massachusetts Amherst 1987

William Steeple Davis Trust, Orient LI residency 1985-6

Pratt Graphics Center, NYC 1984. 1985.

Calpico Corp Travel fellowship, Tokyo - Kyoto Japan, Kauai Hawaii 1983

NEA - New York University electronic media, Martin Nisenholtz 1982, 1983, 1984

Hartford Art School, secondary school grant 1968-1969


solo exhibitions

Southern CT State University 2010

Alva Gallery at RJ Julia. Predicaments 2008

Alva Gallery at RJ Julia. 2007

Madison Art Cinema CT Panavision 2003

Long Island University Southampton College 1989

Islip Museum LI NY 1989

New York University, Broadway Windows Political Circles 1988

Real Art Ways, Hartford CT with Jenny Holzer 1987

Galerie Olivier Renaud-Clement, Paris 1987

Architectures windows Warnecke Arch. 1987,Transformation Zone NYC

Galerie Art Mania, Annemasse FR, cur Olivier Renaud-Clement 1987

Smith College, Northampton MA1987

University Massachusetts, Amherst 1987

-- & -- Gallery, NYC East Village. Everafter NYC 1986

Galerie J & J Donguy, Paris Heaven and Hell 1985

Kamikaze Club, House on Fire Dance Foundation NYC 1985

The Bee, Tokyo 1983

Water Tower installations for three Andy Warhol parties Les Enfants du
Paradis 1981


group exhibitions

Guilford Arts Center CT. Mini, curator Amy Peters 2007

Caroline Chandler CT. Working Class 2007

Guilford Arts Center CT. Startled: Out of Context, Uminga, Barber, McCrady 2006

Erickson Davis Gallery, Ivoryton CT 2006 and 2005

International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Oil Drum Art, New Haven CT 2004

Hygienic Gallery at Union Station, Oil Drum Art, New London CT 2004

Willoughby Wallace gallery, Rogue Luxury: Paterson, McCrady, Perry. Stony Creek CT 2004

Wall Street Gallery, Summertime CT 2004

Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford CT 2003

Details, New Haven CT 2003

City Wide Open Studios New Haven, 1999. 2000. 2003

Guilford Arts Center, Construct, curator Jackie Ivy, Anni & Josef Albers Foundation CT 2002

Pfizer Global Research, Regional Artist Exhibition, Groton CT 2002

Cooley Gallery, CT River Conservancy curator Christian Brezhneff, Old Lyme CT 2002

Guilford Arts Center CT, A to Z curator Jackie Ivy, Anni & Josef Albers Foundation 2001

Alva Gallery, New London CT Art Lovers 2001

Connecticut Commission on the Arts State Capital, Hartford 2001

John Slade Ely House, New Haven CT 1994

Erector Square Gallery, Prints National curator Kim Davenport, New Haven CT 1993

Connecticut College John Dilg, Nicolas Pogony, McCrady Axon curator Maureen McCabe 1991

Hunter College C.U.N.Y. 1991

Parrish Museum, curator Werner Kramarsky, Southampton NY 1990

Guild Hall Museum, Eight Artists, curator Helen Harrison, East Hampton NY 1990

Galerie J & J Donguy, Paris 1990

Benton Gallery, Southampton NY 1990

Henry Street Settlement, Collaboration North-South America with Alvaro Penarette NYC 1987

Galerie J & J Donguy, Paris 1987

East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, Images on Paper L I, NY 1987

Public Image gallery, NYC 1987

Cyrille Putman gallery, NYC 1987

The Upstairs, Tryon NC 1987

Cre-Ange Dance Company, Paris 1986

The Field, NYC 1986

Binoche et Godeau, Les Jeunes Debarquent Paris 1986

Phillip Dash Gallery, NYC 1986

Galerie Beau Lezard, Promesses: MacEwen, Mareval, McCrady, Kohlhofer Paris 1985

Everson Museum Biennial, Syracuse NY curator John Perrault 1984

Ericson Gallery, Animals NYC 1983

17th Annual Biennial of Sao Paulo Brazil 1983

Washington Street Café, curated by Andy Warhol NYC 1982

Plowshares Gallery, Hartford CT 1972

Jewish Community Center, West Hartford CT 1972

selected bibliography
*Jeanine Baron, La Croix, Paris. Decembre 3, 1985. page 21
*Francoise Bataillon, Art Press, Paris. Fevrier1986.
*Jean Pascal Billaud, Cite Magazine International Paris. Novembre 1985
Phyllis Braff, The New York Times May 22, 1988. page 26
*Phyllis Braff, The New York Times July 6, 1988. Page 18
Bob Colacello, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. Harper Collins 1990. p xi
*Creative Time New York. Time Capsule. A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists. 1995 LVMCC p4
*Nadine Descendre, Paris, Le Magazine , Novembre 1985. page 14
*Katy Dobbs, Andy Warhol’s Interview , May 1981. pages 61-62
Alice Gottesman & Linda Donald, Village Voice, July 26, 1988
Pat Hackett, The Andy Warhol Diaries, Warner 1989. pages 357, 372, 379, 436.
*Bernard Hanson. The Hartford Courant, February 8, 1987. cover
*Baird Jones, The East Village Eye, NY. “Andy Warhol: Then and Now” page 15a
*Karin Lipson, Newsday July 22, 1988. page 31
*Jean-Louis Pinte 20 Ans, Paris. Novembre 1985. page 17
*Dinah Prince The Daily News New York. 8 January 1986. p 31
*Rose Slivka The East Hampton Star NY. 3 December 1987
*Joe Tracey The Hartford Courant Sunday Magazine CT. 4 June 1978. cover + pp 1-7
*Elisabeth Vedrenne Decoration International Paris. Novembre 1985
Actuel Paris. Novembre 1985
*An-An Magazine Tokyo. April 1983. pp 195-196
*Asahi Newspaper Group TokyoJapan. Feb 1983
*Fuji Sankei Group, Tokyo Japan. February 1983
*Interior Magazine TokyoJapan. May 1983. pp 123-124
*Olive TokyoJapan. 18 April 1983. p 14
The New York Times Magazine. In support of Elizabeth Murray. 5 May 1991
*The New York Times Sunday. 5 May 1991. p 26
The New York Times Sunday. 14 Nov 2004
Sept, A Paris. Novembre 1985
*Studio Voice Tokyo Japan. May 1983
*Yomiuri Shinbun Tokyo Japan. March 1983
*VSD Paris. 14 Novembre 1985
**Barry Wallenstein The Roller Coaster Kid and other poems. Crowell NY 1982

exhibition catalogues
*Helen Harrison. Guild Hall Museum 1988. pages 4-5
*Werner Kramarsky. Elaine Benson gallery 1988. page 2
*Binoche et Godeau Paris. Did It Again 1987. page 16.
*Binoche et Godeau Paris. Les Jeunes Debarquent 1986. page 27.
*Galerie Beau Lezard Paris. Agenda 86 1986. page 32
*Claudia Paluel-Marmont. Galerie J & J Donguy Paris. 1985
*John Perreault. Everson Museum, Syracuse NY. 1984 Everson Biennial
*Sao Paulo, Brazil. 17th Annual Biennial of Sao Paulo 1983

selected collections
Jean-Pierre Fenez and Jean Michel Vinay Architects. Paris
Greater Hartford Arts Council. CT
Puzzle ring Factory. Tokyo
Republic National Bank of New York. NYC
Bill Arning. Cambridge MA
Basil Alkazzi. NYC & Monte Carlo
Kim Adams. CT
Steven Ames. Old Lyme CT
Dick Berg. NYC
Larry and Colleen Bograd. Denver
Tim & Michiko Clorite. NYC
Barry Buckland. NYC
Barbara Chupp. Madison CT
Edmund Caddy III. Bath England
Jennifer and Peter Cowie. Guilford CT
Pam Cook. CT
Andy & Marlies Denker. Germany
Dame Siobhan Davis, David Buckland. London UK
Horst Denkler. Amherst MA
Andreas & Marlise Denker. Uhlingen DE
Kathleen Fahey. CT
Virginia Foster. Guilford CT
Yvonne Goldsmith. Weston CT
Helen Harrison. East Hampton LI NY
Robert Howsam Jr. Cincinnatti
Mary Hu. New Haven CT
John & Carol Hunt. Southampton NY
Franz Hupscher. Paris
Hanni Kaufmann. West New York NJ
Island Avenue School. Madison CT
Elaine de Kooning. Easthampton NY
Holly Lueders & Dick Spizzirri. NYC Easthampton LI NY Aspen CO
Bruce Lundberg . CT
Province Brothers Importers. CT
Barbara MacLaurin. Paris
Kenneth Miller. NYC
Fred Newman Katy Dobbs. NYC
Bia and Michael O’Neill. NYC & Wainscott LI
Manabu Ogawa. Tokyo
Claudia Paluel-Marmont. Paris
Jean-Louis Pinte. Paris
David Ricereto Sandy Key FL
Sandy Ruoff. Guilford CT
Karen and Ray Seligson. CT
Gerri Stokes-Watstein. Bethany CT
Barry Wallenstein. NYC
Andy Warhol. NYC

other extended travel-residency
Germany, Italy. England. Greece, Yugoslavia. Haiti. Milan-NIce. Berlin. Spain.

I support
RealArtWays Hartford - Arts Council of Greater New Haven - Joyce DiLauro Starship Dance Company - Connecticut River Environmental Trust - College Art Association - Guilford Art Center - KappaKappaGamma - Ivoryton Playhouse CT - Westport Arts Center - Provincetown Art Association - Artspace New Haven

these artists have supported my work :
Larry Rivers
Andy Warhol
Robert Gwathmey
Elaine deKooning
Jack Youngerman
Holly Lueders
Vinnie Longo
David Inshaw UK
Susan Crile
Milton Glaser
Valerie Jaudon
Robert Swain
Friedl Dzubas
Martin Axon
Roman Vishniac
Dan Rice, studio assistant 'Ken' in RED, Rothko, on Broadway

2012
Art theory strategies are structural to the way I work. I want to 1 be caught off guard, 2 be sent into a confused vertigo and 3 question the status quo.
The most interesting art through history has posed questions and agitated for a different reference or starting point.

Until 'last week', I've believed that painting is intellectual and that I need to study more. It's chronic.
Painting is visceral language: word-forming cognition happens second. My preparation stage is finished.

The present is so serious. Daily, I need Dada practice. A rectangle, spun, takes up Noisy Space and requires less square inches in the bigger real estate it inhabits, not more work and lower pay. The remnant, the Drip, proves balance.

I added a New Haven studio so I could still work large in transformational processes that steam, flash, burn; in steel, canvas and stoneware.
I continued making replica work stations as souvenirs of power and light work sites. The 1990s red Sublime paintings were scaring me so I slashed them and dropped them down a chute. For a moment Phenomenology was my theses. The new work that I make still gives me a fright.