Meg Cranston

 
Meg Cranston (born in 1960 in Baldwin, New York; lives and works in Venice, California) has shown internationally since 1988. She has been the recipient of a New School of Social Research Faculty Development Grant, an artist grant from the Penny McCall Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a faculty research grant from the Center for Asian American Studies at UCLA.
Meg Cranston's work often combines text and imagery from popular culture. With Kippenbergeresque energy and wit, Cranston has been investigating anthropological and physical issues in sculptures, installations, paintings, or drawings. Recent shows have featured, for instance, drawings and sculptures of bad teeth and their imagined physiognomic significance, a large composite photograph of an average-size American, and a performance about the life of Marvin Gaye…
 
Meg Cranston - Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph on Californian artist, including essays and interview.
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