Crystalle Lacouture
Overview
Photos by Lisa Neighbors
Crystalle Lacouture is an artist based in Boston and North Adams, MA. She received her BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Skidmore College, where she received the Pamela Weidenman Award for Excellence in Printmaking. She has been a Resident Key Holder Artist at the Lower East Side Printshop and has attended residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center (Michael Mazur Printmaking), Surf Point Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Vanguard Mastheads, Contemporary Artist Center, and Room 83 Spring. In addition to her full-time studio practice Crystalle is a curator at Tourists, a hotel near Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA. She was recently profiled in Boston Art Review and interviewed on the podcasts, “I Like Your Work” and “Artist Mother Podcast”. She exhibits her work throughout New England and New York and is represented by Praise Shadows Gallery.
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Exhibitions
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Shaping Fragments
Group Exhibition 11 Jul - 10 Aug 2024Prints and multiples by Chloe Alexander, Polly Apfelbaum, Jeffrey Gibson, Yaron Michael Hakim, Crystalle Lacouture, Louise Nevelson, Yuri Shimojo, Frank Stella, Yu-Wen Wu.Read more
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Evening's Evening
Solo exhibition by Crystalle Lacouture 20 Oct - 26 Nov 2023Evening's Evening by Crystalle Lacouture presents an entirely new body of work comprising unique block prints, oil on canvas paintings, and a new set of her highly praised MAMA Drawings...Read more -
A New Devotional
Two-Person by Crystalle Lacouture and Kevin Umaña 7 Jan - 6 Feb 2022Boston-based Crystalle Lacouture and Kansas City-based Kevin Umaña maintain artistic practices that are rooted in abstraction, color, and memory. The exhibition features a series of Lacouture’s MAMA paintings: gouache and...Read more
Videos
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Can Arrival, the Hotel Art Fair in the Berkshires, Change the Game?
Brian Boucher, artnet, June 18, 2025 -
New art fair Arrival brings collectors to the bucolic Berkshires
Barbara Reina, The Art Newspaper, June 13, 2025 -
An art fair of a different vibe opens in North Adams
Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, June 13, 2025 -
A New Art Fair, Arrival, Ditches the Basel Frenzy for the Berkshires’ Calm
Daniel Cassady, ArtNews, June 9, 2025 -
Are Prints Booming? Two New York Fairs Show the Medium’s Strength in the Market
Daniel Cassady, ArtNews, April 7, 2025 -
Art Spiel: Boston Exhibitions in October 2024
Andrew Fish, Art Spiel, October 17, 2024 -
A Summer Preview of the Arrival Art Fair Blossoms in the Berkshires
Erica Silverman, Whitewall Magazine, August 19, 2024 -
Artist Crystalle Lacouture Commissioned for New Wall at WAM Installation, Opening Fall 2024 at The Worcester Art Museum
Worcester Art Museum, August 6, 2024 -
Aspen Art Fair: Residencies, Prizes, and Programs
Maddy Brown, Flaunt Magazine, August 2, 2024 -
A Chic Berkshires Hotel Will Host an Invite-Only Art Fair Next Summer
Brian Boucher, Artnet News, July 12, 2024 -
A new art fair will arrive in the Berkshires in 2025
Douglas Mason, The Art Newspaper, July 8, 2024 -
Dallas Art Fair wraps up its 16th edition with strong sales
Maxwell Rabb, Artsy, April 9, 2024 -
Early sales at the Dallas Art Fair prove even a solar eclipse can't overshadow Texas's hot market
Carlie Porterfield, The Art Newspaper, April 5, 2024 -
Dallas Art Fair 2024: What to See
Angella D'Avignon, Wallpaper*, April 5, 2024 -
Crystalle Lacouture centers loss and care at Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Cate McQuiad, The Boston Globe, October 31, 2023 -
Visits and Vigils: Crystalle Lacouture’s Material Memories
Jessica Shearer, Boston Art Review, October 13, 2023 -
Praise Shadows Art Gallery Opens Its 2022 Program With a Duo Show
Eli Anapur, Widewalls, December 27, 2021
