Chris Cran
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Chris Cran is a Canadian painter, based in Calgary, Alberta.
Cran's work investigates perception and illusion, and the viewer’s role in how images are formed. He has been described in The New York Times
as a painter who "…has built a career on tampering with people’s perceptions." Widely exhibited across Canada and internationally recognized, Cran has become known for turning nothing into something, with the slightest push. Cran's paintings, included in numerous Canadian collections, have to do with visual tricks, images that appear one way but have been made another way.
Cran studied at the Kootenay School of Art, Nelson, B.C. and Alberta College of Art (Honours painting, 1979). He currently teaches at the Alberta College of Art and Design
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Cran's work investigates perception and illusion, and the viewer’s role in how images are formed. He has been described in The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
as a painter who "…has built a career on tampering with people’s perceptions." Widely exhibited across Canada and internationally recognized, Cran has become known for turning nothing into something, with the slightest push. Cran's paintings, included in numerous Canadian collections, have to do with visual tricks, images that appear one way but have been made another way.
Cran studied at the Kootenay School of Art, Nelson, B.C. and Alberta College of Art (Honours painting, 1979). He currently teaches at the Alberta College of Art and Design
Alberta College of Art and Design
-History:The Alberta College of Art & Design is a Canadian degree-granting, publicly-funded art and design college located in Calgary . It was known as the Provincial Institute of Technology and Arts, which was part of SAIT until 1985...
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