Artists

Artist Bio

Lynn Crawford is an art critic and fiction writer. Her criticism has appeared in Art in America, Tema Celeste, Metro Times, Zing, Parkett, Modern Painters, American Ceramics and The Brooklyn Rail. Her books include Solow, Blow, Simply Separate People and Fortification Resort, a collection of sestinas responding to the work of visual artists. A new novel, Simply Separate People, Two has just been published by Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions as part of her Art X Detroit project. She is a founding board member of Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. www.lynncrawford.net

ArtX Project Description

Title: Simply Separate People, Two
Medium: Book Launch & Reading
Year Created: 2011
Description: Lynn Crawford published Simply Separate People (a novel Harry Mathews described as "bewitching and original") in 2002. Her next collection, Fortification Resort, was an oulipean inspired series of sestinas responding to visual art seen in the Detroit area. Now, with Simply Separate People, Two, she returns to the novel form. This book is full blown, character driven and includes her reworking/re-imagining of texts by Ernest Hemingway, Henry James and Virginia Woolf. According to the writer Peter Markus, Crawford "is a dead-on inventor of human dislocation. Her people, separated as they are from both themselves and the rest of the world, are skinlessly rendered by a writer who reminds us of who we are inside our own skins."