PATRICK S. CRABB
Internationally Acclaimed Ceramicist
www.patrickshiacrabb.com
Office: Room C-107,
Tel: (714) 564-5613
E-mail: pscrabb@hotmail.com
Patrick S. Crabb is a contemporary archaeologist in clay. His work contains an element of mystery which is meant to evoke different things to different people. While never blatant in his attempts to entice, Patrick weaves his magic subtly. His methods are meant to draw the viewer quietly into the work itself, rather than into its construction. Mystery interweaves with mystery. An artist in the clay medium, Patrick S. Crabb finds his sources of inspiration evolving from a historical context, specifically artifacts from pre‑technology or primitive cultures.
Mr. Crabb possesses a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1992, through the auspices of the Fulbright Scholarship Award program, Patrick received a travel grant from the Queen Elizabeth II Fine Arts Council in New Zealand.
Patrick currently serves as Professor of Ceramics at Santa Ana College in the Rancho Santiago Community College District, Orange County, California. In addition, he has been an adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton, and Utah StateUniversity in Logan, Utah.
Patrick's ceramic art has traveled a great distance ‑‑‑ in miles, in technique, and in time. His works are held in more than 60 corporate and public collections across the United States, including the Montclair Museum of Art in Montclair, New Jersey, and the Mint Museum of Fine Arts in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the international scene, Mr. Crabb's work is part of the permanent collections of the Auckland Museum (New Zealand), the Kyushu Ceramics Museum (Japan), the International Ceramics Museum (Faenza, Italy), the Museum of Modern Cerarriics (Castelli, Italy), the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), and the Czech' Republic Ceramic Design Institute.
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