Welcome to studio of Nancie Crowley.

Nancie Crowley is a highly accomplished artist whose work has been shown in many galleries, museums, and office buildings including the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Thomas Reynolds Gallery (Santa Barbara), LaFond Galleries (Pittsburg), Works Gallery (NYC), Village Theatre Gallery (Danville), Koret Gallery (SF), Frisco 100 Alligator Gallery (SF),  Matrix Gallery (Albuquerque), Berkeley Art Center Gallery, Stanford University Center for Integrated Systems, Bechtel International Center at Stanford University School of Education, San Jose State University Art Center Gallery, San Diego State University Art Center Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Pacific Art League, Center for Visual Art at Stanford University, San Jose City College, Center For Contemporary Art at CCA (SF), various tech companies in Silicon Valley including Incyte Genomics, Synopsys Corp. and 3Com Corp, the San Diego Art Institute, The Artful Eye Gallery (Vermont), Claudia Chapline Gallery (Stinson Beach), Santa Cruz Art League, Kismet Gallery (San Jose), Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, San Francisco State University Gallery, Wanamaker Fine Art Gallery (Philadelphia) and James Phelan Gallery (SF).

"Because I was born and raised in southern California, I attribute my palette of intense colors to that region. Whether working in oils or in opaque gouache watercolors, my pigments stay close to the sun. I prefer to apply a coat of pure color (imprimatura) to the white ground with very little, if any, over painting. Cool, dark tones which generally recede are frequently applied to frontal areas, while warm and lighter tones often are used for distant shapes bringing them forward creating a flat format. Whether depicting the human figure, animal forms, still lifes or landscape images, my work focuses on the visual excitement of close color values as well as those that contrast dramatically."

Learn more about Nancie.
https://nancieart.com/

Education & Teaching Credentials

• Master of Arts Degree, Fine Arts, San Jose State University
• Bachelor of Arts Degree, Fine Arts, San Diego State University
• California Teaching Credential, Fine Arts, Lifetime, Community College
• Graduate Studies in Fine Arts, University of California at Los Angeles
• Graduate Studies in Fine Arts, Arizona State University at Tempe

Professional Art Instructor for the Pacific Art League

• Life drawing
• Experimental watercolor 
• Painting/Drawing the costumed figure

Published Work

• “SHOWTIME” by Nancie L. Crowley, a teaching aid for Secondary Schools

Notable Instructor

• Elmer Bischoff - - Bay Area Figurative School