About
Artist Bio
L.A. Crawford is a multidisciplinary artist based in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, who employs painting, printmaking, and sculpture in their work. Crawford’s practice reflects an engagement with materiality and form, drawing from their surroundings to evoke narratives that challenge and reinterpret our understanding of space and how we construct meaning from it. Crawford received their B.F.A. in painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2017 and their M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Mount Royal School of Art, in 2019. They were awarded the 77Art fellowship and have participated in the Art Institute of Chicago’s summer residency program in Siena, Italy. Their work has been published in the Museum of Americana catalog, and they created an installation for the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Denver, Colorado.
Artist Statement
Humanity's capacity to embed ideologies of power within our built environment has always fascinated me. Concepts of ownership, exclusion, and extraction, manifested into architectural forms serve as a constant wellspring of inspiration in my work. Through the repurposing of forgotten construction materials and home design elements, I unearth the legacies of inequities that frame our present.
Me and my hoard