Studio Artist Program

Craig Drennen

http://www.craigdrennen.com

Craig Drennen has a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Glenville State College and MFA’s in Painting and Art History from Ohio University. He shows his work at Samsøn gallery in Boston, MA. His most recent gallery exhibitions were a two-person show at Zero Degree Space in Beijing, China, a solo exhibition at Gallery Stokes in Atlanta, and a group exhibition at PPOW in New York City.

From December 2002 until 2007 Drennen organized his studio activity around the 1984 movie Supergirl. He now makes work based on Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.

Drennen teaches painting, drawing, and critical writing at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and is the dean of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Skowhegan, ME. He has written art criticism for New York Arts, Dialogue, and DRAIN magazines, and catalog essays for Tony Wight Gallery in Chicago, and the Contemporary Art Center in Virginia Beach, VA.