Maryrose Crook Nigredo
Plus performance by The Renderers
Juan Muniz & Jasmine Worth
with Special Guests Maryrose Crook, Michael Murphy, and Bunnie Reiss
August 5-28, 2016
Opening Reception, Friday August 5, 8-11 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
Maryrose Crook
Maryrose Crook is a self-taught New Zealand artist drawing on traditions of surrealism, still life and folk art creating worlds where beauty and brutality exist in close proximity; and a musician, performing and recording along with husband Brian Crook, as The Renderers . Maryrose has been exhibiting in public and private spaces since 1996, and has work held in collections in New Zealand, the USA, Germany and Australia. She has been the recipient of the Wallace Development Award, one of New Zealand’s most prestigious art awards, and has undertaken numerous artist residencies. She is currently based in Joshua Tree, California, in the Mojave Desert.
I’m calling the show Nigredo which is a word that describes a state of being in Alchemy, which is the blackness you have to create as an alchemist, you have to burn everything till it’s completely black before you can transmute it, and of course there’s all this psychological stuff about it but I quite like the historical alchemical, the old fashioned Alchemy thing so Nigredo is the blackest of the black, and the next stage is Albedo which is the whitest of the white. – Maryrose Crook
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- Maryrose Crook – Drops of Devils Blood
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- Maryrose Crook – Bearding
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- Maryrose Crook – Everything is Dreaming
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- Maryrose Crook – Landlocked
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- Maryrose Crook – Last Time We Went Down
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- Maryrose Crook – Bearding – She of the Sea
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- Maryrose Crook – Virgin Queen
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- Maryrose Crook – Voices by the Rowl
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- Maryrose Crook – Nigredo
The Renderers
Part Velvets, part Mekons, part unalloyed, indescribable weirdness…— Elizabeth Nelson, Washington Post.
The Renderers who will perform at the show opening on August fifth, have been making music since 1989 playing in various incarnations with rotating members, with partners Brian and Maryrose Crook being the mainstays of the group. Described as deep, dark and psychedelic, the Renderers music ranges from wild and raging to dreamlike and spooky. The Crooks have supported such artists as Thurston Moore, playing with a full band to a packed New York audience; to Joanna Newsom, and Bill Callahan, who they supported in New Zealand, playing theatre shows as a duo, to Simon Joyner and Wooden Wand, who they recently supported in a house concert in Yucca Valley, California. The Renderers have released nine albums on such labels as Flying Nun (New Zealand), Merge (USA), and current label, Ba Da Bing, (New York).
