RON CRUSAN
127 Horse Point Road, Post Office Box 162
Port Clyde, Maine 04855
207.542.0837
roncrusan@gmail.com
EDUCATION
- MA Humanities, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
- BFA Photography, Minor in Art History, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
- BA Studio Art, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Represented by Blue Raven Gallery, Rockland, Maine
2024 Blue Raven Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine
2023 Granite Gallery “ARTour”, Tenants Harbor, Maine
2022 Granite Gallery, Tenants Harbor, Maine
2021 Small Wonder Gallery, Camden, Maine
“BLOCKS”, Granite Gallery, Tenants Harbor, Maine
2020 Small Wonder Gallery, Camden, Maine
Mars Hall Gallery, St. George, Maine
2019 Small Wonder Gallery, Camden, Maine
The Wyeth Gallery, Port Clyde, Maine
2018 Bonnie Farmer Assemblage Art & Gallery, Rockland, Maine
The Wyeth Gallery, Port Clyde, Maine
2017 The Wyeth Gallery, Port Clyde, Maine
2016 Monsters! Union of Maine Visual Artists, Portland, Maine
The Wyeth Gallery, Port Clyde, Maine
2015 Open Studio, pop-up exhibition, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
2014 York Public Library, solo exhibition, York, Maine
The Subito Quartet, pop-up exhibition, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
2010 A Celebration of the Life & Work of Pablo Neruda, Expressiones Cultural Center, New London, CT
Above & Below, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
2009 Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, solo exhibition, Mystic, CT
Bulgaria: Then and Now, Hygienic Art Galleries, New London, CT
2008 Messages and Metaphors, Central Gallery, Old Saybrook, CT
The Written Word, Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, CT
2007 Sheltered, Central Gallery, Old Saybrook, CT
The American Way, solo exhibition, Golden Street Gallery, New London, CT
A Loose Association of Artists, pop-up exhibition, The Isaac School, New London, CT
51st Regional Show, Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, CT
Salon des Independents, Hygienic Art Galleries, New London, CT
2006 50th Regional Show, Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, CT
Salon des Independents, Hygienic Art Galleries, New London, CT
National Palace of Culture, solo show, Sofia, Bulgaria
Art Gallery Smolyan, solo show, Smolyan, Bulgaria
2005 49th Regional Show, Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, Connecticut
1998 Cork Gallery at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Plaza, New York
1997 Waterworks Visual Arts Center Regional Exhibition, Salisbury, North Carolina
Lee Street Clay Works, Salisbury, North Carolina
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina
1996 Waterworks Visual Arts Center Regional Exhibition, Salisbury, North Carolina
The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina
1989 Nudes from Life, Gallery 32, Virginia Beach, Virginia
1985 A Common Light, Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Westmoreland Museum of Art Invitational, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
1984 Westmoreland Museum of Art Invitational, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
1980 Accepted Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1979 Accepted Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County Community College, Youngwood, Pennsylvania
1978 Kennedy Gallery, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Washington and Jefferson University, Washington, Pennsylvania
1977 Accepted Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2021 Small Wonder Gallery, Camden, Maine
2020 Mars Hall Gallery, St. George, Maine and Small Wonder Gallery, Camden, Maine
2019 The Wyeth Gallery, Port Clyde, Maine and Small Wonder Gallery, Camden, Maine
2018-2019 Bonnie Farmer’s Assemblage and Art Gallery, Rockland, Maine
2016-2018 The Wyeth Gallery, Port Clyde, Maine
2007-2009 Central Gallery, Old Saybrook, Connecticut
1995-1998 Gallery 9, Banner Elk, North Carolina
AWARDS
2006 Awarded artist residency at the TWINS Art Center, Polkovnik Serafimovo, Bulgaria,
sponsored by the Griffis Foundation, New London, CT and the Orpheus Foundation,
Sofia, Bulgaria
1993 Artist delegation that traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam for the opening of As Seen By Both Sides,
American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War, sponsored by The Indochina Arts Project,
Boston, MA
CURATORIAL
- Juror for numerous art exhibitions and lecturer for numerous arts organizations for over 30 years.
- Curator of over 300 art exhibitions, most notably working with Sol LeWitt on a wall drawing installation
and Jaune Quick-to See-Smith on her solo exhibition and week-long associated programming.
ESSAYS and PUBLICATIONS
- Richard Brown Lethem, Figure=Abstraction, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 2014
- The Maine Photo Project at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 2015
- DeWitt Hardy, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 2015
- Alfred Chadbourn: Painting in Maine, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 2015
- At Home and Abroad: The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher
Pearse Cranch (1813-1892), Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2007
- Larry Dinkin: Painting to Silkscreen, an Interpretive Process, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2007
- femme brut(e) and From the Hand of the Composer, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2007
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Danforth Museum of Art, 2004
- New Visions: Small Works from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth Museum of Art, 2003
- Karin Rosenthal: Twenty Years of Photographs, Danforth Museum of Art, 2000
- Figure Fantasy & Illusion: Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth Museum of Art, 2000
- Andrew Stevovich: A Retrospective of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Danforth Museum of Art, 1999
- Heartland, Danforth Museum of Art, 1998
- Bob Timberlake: Celebrating 60 Years, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, 1997
- Landscape Trilogy, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, 1996
- three artists II, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, 1995
- three artists, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, 1994
- Marvin Saltzman: Landscape of the Mind and Eye, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, 1993
- The 1992 SOMAR Invitational, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, 1992
- Photography Remembered: A Selective View of the Robert W. Lisle Collection, The Chrysler Museum, 1990
- The Portrait in America, The Chrysler Museum, 1990
- Light Images ’90, The Chrysler Museum, 1990
- Vietnam: Old Images and New Feature article in Salisbury Post, Salisbury, NC April 10. 1994
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020-Present Principle, ART CENTRIC CONSULTING
2016-2020 ARTS ADMINISTRATOR for Linda L. Bean
- Director of Linda Bean’s Maine Wyeth Gallery
- Director of Linda Bean’s Wyeths by Water
- Manage Linda Bean’s personal art collection
2009-2016 OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Ogunquit, Maine
Executive Director and Chief Curator of Exhibitions and Collections
2004-2008 LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM, New London, CT
Executive Director/CEO and Chief Curator of Exhibitions and Collections
1998-2004 DANFORTH MUSEUM OF ART, Framingham, MA
Executive Director and CEO
Curator of Exhibitions and Collections
2000-2004 FRAMINGHAM STATE COLLEGE, Framingham, MA
Visiting Lecturer
1991-1998 WATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER, Salisbury, NC
Executive Director/CEO and Curator
1989-1990 THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM, Norfolk, VA
Assistant Curator of Photography