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2002 Hendrix College, Conway, AR Cantrell Gallery, Little Rock, AR Taylors' Contemporanea Fine Arts, Hot Springs, AR
Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR: "New Linocuts" (January, February) 2000 Cantrell Gallery, Little Rock, AR: "Warren Criswell GRAPHIC: New Prints & Drawings"
The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS. See "The Works of Warren Criswell," an illustrated essay on this show by the artist
1990 University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC Cantrell Gallery, Little Rock, AR 1989 Hendrix College, Conway, AR |
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| Second Annual Little Rock Film Festival Short Film Competition, May 15 - 18, 2008, Little Rock, Arkansas |
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The Punishment, 2007, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches |
50th Annual Delta Exhibition Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Juror James
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![]() The Red Cloud (A Man Following a Woman), 1998, oil on wood, 36 x 48 inches (collection Rickey Medlock) was included in the exhibition |
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Recent American Watercolors June 16, 2007 - August 26, 2007 |
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The Second Circle, 2007, 33½ x 33½ inches |
Presented in conjunction with American Watercolor Masters, this exhibition will focus on more contemporary expressions, dating from the last 20 years, by some 50 American artists. Among the artists included are Warren Criswell, Whitney Leland, Philip Pearlstein, Jamie Wyeth and Russell Yerkes. |
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49th Annual Delta Exhibition
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![]() Departure of the Muse, 2005,oil on linen, 39 x 26 inches |
The Second Circle, 2006, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches |
Peninsula
Fine Arts Center's
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Triptych, DVD, 6.25 minutes: The Crow, Night Moves & Nocturne |
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work will also be seen, along with works from 25 other artists,
from May 12 to July 9 at the Terry House Community Gallery (a.k.a.
Decorative Arts Museum of the Arkansas Arts Center) as a part
of the exhibition 'Celebrating Excellence: Arkansas Arts Council
Fellowship Program 1986-2006'" Quotes from "Spotlight: Warren Criswell" in realLiving, February 2006, p. 18 |
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![]() Nocturne, Frame #99, original drawing from the movie, graphite on gray laid paper, 8½ x 11 inches, with inkjet prints of processed frames, 20 x 24 inches |
Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship Program 1986 - 2006 Terry House Community Gallery Little Rock, Arkansas |
| "Idea to Image" Baum Gallery of Fine Art University of Central Arkansas Conway, Arkansas January 20 - March 3, 2005 Curated by Barbara Satterfield |
![]() Olive Oil, 2004, acrylic & oil on linen, 24 x 32 inches |
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West Hollywood, California DRAWINGS VII July 24th - September 4th, 2004 |
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![]() Study for Don Giovanni Impenitente, 1999, red chalk on paper, 22½ x 16 inches |
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![]() The Samaqueca, 1999, conté & oil on bark paper, 30 x 22½ inches |
![]() Self Portrait, Dead, 2003, sumi on paper, 23 x 30 inches |
Gallery I, University of Arkansas at Little Rock May 19 - July 3 |
![]() Driveway III, 2003, sumi & pastel on paper, 30 x 23 inches |
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May 17 - July 17, 2002, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock |
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West Pathway Road, Late Afternoon, 2000, ink on paper, 6 x 9 inches |
Cox Creative Center, Little Rock, AR May 9 - June 22, 2002 Although I didn't actually grow up in Arkansas, I had several drawings and linocuts in this first showing of the Central Arkansas Library's new collection, curated by Arkansas Art Coordinator Reita Miller. |
![]() Leonardo Pisano, Fibonacci, 2000, linocut, 7 x 5 inches |
![]() The Red Cloud (A Man Following a Woman), 1998, oil on wood, 36 x 48 inches |
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The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, Arkansas February 2 through May 12 This invitational show featured the human figure as seen from several angles by several Arkansas artists. My painting, The Red Cloud and four other smaller works were included. |
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Eye & Headlights, 1987, pastel, 22½ x 30 inches About Face October 5 through November 11, 2001 at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock |
![]() A Man Pissing, 2001, charcoal & pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches |
![]() Dawn, 2000, linocut, image 1¾ x 2¼ in. |
April 1 through May 26 at the Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
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Portfolio One: Arkansas Masters
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The Storm, 1992, oil on linen, 48 x 36 inches |
Myth, Memory and Imagination, an exhibition of works drawn from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, which opened October 15, 1999 at McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, and was shown at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock from January 26 to March 18, 2001, includes two of Judy's many works by Warren Criswell, The Storm, 1992, and View From Ward Motel, 1983. The exhibition was shown at the North Dakota Museum of Art in 2001 and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in 2002. ![]() View from Ward Motel, 1983, watercolor on paper, 6 x 9 inches |
![]() Incubus, 1998, oil & beeswax on plywood, 36 x 28 inches |
Incubus, Warren's ripoff of Fuseli's The Nightmare, was included in the exhibition Appropriation: Art About Art, 1999, in Gallery 1, Fine Arts Building,University of Arkansas at Little Rock. |
| This painting, Therapy I: The Voyeur, received a Delta Award in The 42nd Delta Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, July through September, 1999. |
![]() Therapy I: The Voyeur, 1999, oil on wood, 20 x 24 inches |
![]() Double Indemnity 2, 1999, charcoal, oil & beeswax on paper, 48 x 36 inches |
This drawing received the Juror's Award in the 25th Prints, Drawings and Photographs Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center through June 20, 1999. The juror for the competition was art historian Nannete V. Maciejunes, Senior Curator of The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. She is a scholar of Charles Burchfield, George Bellows, Alice Schille and others. |
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the 41st Delta Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1998, but got only a lousy Honorable Mention by juror Peter Frank, editor of Visions art quarterly and art critic for the Los Angeles Weekly. |
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"Criswell & Edwards," works by Warren Criswell and Larry Edwards of Memphis, Fine Arts Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR 1997 Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR The Year of Scheherazade, Walton Arts Center, Fayettville, AR "Selections from the Permanent Collection," Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR 1996 The Delta," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Representation of Self, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR Wild Imaginings, Transformative Dreams & Perfect Calm, Russell Senate Office Building, Office of Senator David Pryor, Washington, DC Paintings from the Heart of America, Hotel Maritim, Magdeburg, Germany; University Galerie, Wernigerode, Germany; Hotel Esplanade, Jena, Germany; Castle Museum, Quedlinburg, Germany; Circle Galerie, Neckarwestheim, Germany; Info Galerie, Ahaus, Germany; International Symposium for Artists, Wernigerode, Germany 1995 The Delta Art Exhibition, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Prints, Drawings and Photographs, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Art Against the Odds, The Collector Art Gallery, Washington, DC Arkansas Contemporary, Amerika Haus, Frankfurt, Germany; Haus Bremen, Bonn, Germany; Chranach Haus Galerie, Lutherstart Wittemberg, Germany; Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Erfurt, Germany 1994 Arkansas Contemporary, The Hotel Berlin, Berlin, Germany; The Bremen World Trade Center, Bremen, Germany ; Festival of the Arts, Hot Springs National Park, AR; The Major Arcana, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR Fantastic and Imaginative Art: Drawings and Objects from the Permanent Collection, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR 1993 Second Art Galleries Fair R.O.C., Taipei, Taiwan Arkansas Artists, The Collector Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR International Miniature Prints, Susan Teller Gallery, New York, NY; Small Works on Paper, Foundation of the Arts, Jonesboro, AR; Third Annual Painting & Drawing Invitational, Hendrix College, Conway, AR; Trappings, Hot Springs Arts Center, Hot Springs, AR; The Arkansas Collection, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR; The Delta Art Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Biennial Arkansas Exhibition, Arts & Science Center, Pine Bluff, AR; Annual Arkansas Exhibition, Hot Springs Arts Center, Hot Springs, AR 1990 The Inner Eye: Mood, Myth & Mysticism, Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; The Governors Exhibit of Arkansas Arts, Convention Center, Little Rock, AR |
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Criswell on the move Artist's 'Six Moments' |
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Article by Leslie Newell Peacock in The Arkansas Times May 15, 2008 |

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by Jessica Crenshaw in realLIVING, an Arkansas Times Publication pages 18 & 19, February 2006 |
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by Trenton Lee Stewart by Warren Criswell Published by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX |
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"Warren Criswell of Benton has achieved national success in his ventures as an artist" by Larry Stovall in the Tri-Lakes Edition of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Sunday, April 24, 2005 |
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2001 About Face, by Townsend Wolfe, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 2001 (ISBN 1-884240-25-9). Exhibition catalog of selections from the great collection .of Curtis and Jackye Finch, including two works by Warren Criswell. (See Group Exhibitions above.)
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2000 Simple Printmaking by Gwen Diehn, Lark Books, New York (ISBN 1-57990-158-1). Three Criswell linocuts are reproduced in this beautiful book. 1999 "Love's losses played for laughs," by Jerry Cullum for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia; Weekend Preview, Friday, January 29, 1999; page Q8. This review is a brilliant first take on Criswell's paintings at Raymond Lawrence Gallery by a sharp-eyed writer. Jerry Cullum is senior editor of ArtPapers, a magazine of contemporary art. |
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| Grand Prize, Junior Service League of Northwest Arkansas, 3rd Annual Art Competition, The Year of Scheherazade, Walton Arts Center, Fayettville, AR (Juror: Ruth Pasquine; work: King Shahryar in the Wilderness) |
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Jurors award, purchase award. 5th annual Small Works on Paper Exhibition, Arkansas Artists Registry, Jonesboro, AR Juror: Katherine Carter; work: The Pool
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