Artist Josephine Crawford paints from her heart. Her theatrical canvases mirror her love for music and dance, the excitement of crowds, cafés and nightlife. Her dancers are earthy maidens at home in forests and fields as well as behind the footlights. Josephine is a colorful expressionist painter using oils, acrylics, oil pastels and prints to share her energy and love of life.

Josephine danced professionally for twenty years in Europe and the United States, and designed costumes for many shows in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. While dancing in Italy she studied painting, and continued her studies after she came to the U.S.A at the Art Institutes of Chicago and San Francisco.

Josephine has had twelve one-woman shows:
  • 1982 Cal Poly
  • 1986 Cuesta Collage
  • 1987 Art Center (Gray Wing)
  • 1988 Cal State Bakersfield
  • 1989 Parker Street studios
  • 1991 Cal Poly (McFee gallery)
  • 1993 LA-Santa Fe Gallery
  • 1994 SLO Library
  • 1999 Berkeley Street, Santa Monica
  • 2003 eAfrica Gallery, SLO
  • 2004 McConnell Gallery, SLO
  • 2005 Steynberg Gallery

Work in private Collections in California, Florida, New York and Canada.

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