Work samples

  • Container
    Container
    Interior Closet View of Container
  • Container
    Container
    Entropy
  • Excavation
    Excavation
  • A Matter of Taste
    A Matter of Taste
    Taste as Pollution

About L.A.

Baltimore City

L.A. Crawford is a multidisciplinary artist currently based out of Baltimore Maryland. Found objects, construction materials, and casts of architectonic forms are assembled together to create an amalgamation of meaning and critic how contemporary culture adopts its lineage from historical forms of suppression. Crawford received their B.F.A. from University North Carolina at Greensboro in painting (2017) and M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Art from Maryland Institute College of Art (19). They… more

Fabrication of Memories

How time is layered through space, place, memory and process.
  • Excavation
    Excavation
    2019 21"x 36" Screen print
  • Park Guell
    Park Guell
    2019 11"x 17" Screen print
  • Gaudi's Garden
    Gaudi's Garden
    2019 11"x 17" Monoprint Screen print
  • Wyndburn
    Wyndburn
    2017 20"x10" Spray paint, Pastel and Ink
  • Untitled
    Untitled
    2017 26"x48" Latex Paint, Pastel
  • Perspective
    Perspective
    2017 8”x6” Pastel
  • Untitled
    Untitled
    2016 8”x6” Pen, Ink, Gold Leaf
  • Layers of Siena
    Layers of Siena
    2016 8”x6” Pen, Ink, Gold Leaf
  • The Red
    The Red
    2017 35”x 26” Spray Paint, Transfers, Flocking, Ink

Taste as Pollution

The linear historical narrative's ultimate tethering to past aesthetics.
  • A Matter of Taste
    A Matter of Taste
    2018 5’x 3”x 5’ Acrylic Paint, Wallpaper, Spray Paint, Cement
  • Windows
    Windows
    2018 4’x 9”x 64” Mixed Media
  • Windows
    Windows
    View from rear 2018 4’x 9”x 64” Mixed Media
  • Windows
    Windows
    Interior View

Container

From Nowhere to Now Here, the flattening of the Suburban utopic vision
  • Container
    Container
    2019 16'x 48"x 92" Canvas, Popcorn Ceiling Texture, Sponges, Plaster, Wallpaper Transfer, Tang
  • Container
    Container
    2019 16'x 48"x 92" Canvas, Popcorn Ceiling Texture, Sponges, Plaster, Wallpaper Transfer, Tang
  • Container
    Container
    2019 16'x 48"x 92" Canvas, Popcorn Ceiling Texture, Sponges, Plaster, Wallpaper Transfer, Tang
  • Container
    Container
    Hallway View 2019 16'x 48"x 92" Canvas, Popcorn Ceiling Texture, Sponges, Plaster, Wallpaper Transfer, Tang
  • Container
    Container
    Closet View 2019 16'x 48"x 92" Canvas, Popcorn Ceiling Texture, Sponges, Plaster, Wallpaper Transfer, Tang
  • Container
    Container
  • Container
    Container
    2019 16'x 48"x 92" Canvas, Popcorn Ceiling Texture, Sponges, Plaster, Wallpaper Transfer, Tang
  • Container
    Container
    2019 16'x 48"x 92" Canvas, Popcorn Ceiling Texture, Sponges, Plaster, Wallpaper Transfer, Tang
  • Container
    Container
    Exterior Closet View 2019 16'x 48"x 92" Canvas, Popcorn Ceiling Texture, Sponges, Plaster, Wallpaper Transfer, Tang

Form over Function

Exploration of patterned simulacrum.
  • Ebb
    Ebb
    2016 Ceramic
  • Flow
    Flow
    2016 Ceramic
  • Ebb & Flow
    Ebb & Flow
    2016 Dimensions Variable Ceramic
  • Historic Entropy
    Historic Entropy
    2018, 30"x9"x3" Ceramic
  • Power Structures
    Power Structures
    2018 28"x28"x7" Ceramic
  • You've Been Here Before
    You've Been Here Before
    2017 4’x 45”x 5’ Plaster, Bills and various mail detritus from Highfield House Community, Linoleum Tile, Spray Paint
  • You've Been Here Before
    You've Been Here Before
    2017 4’x 45”x 5’ Plaster, Bills and various mail detritus from Highfield House Community, Linoleum Tile, Spray Paint