ARTIST STATEMENT
My theme has been Psychedelic for two years. I firmly believe all the improvements we created in the 1960s and 1970s needs to be deeply replanted into our psyches. Equality of race, equality of gender, ecological concerns, along with spiritual and consciousness awakening. “Love IS where it’s at!”
Of course, during the psychedelic era, roughly 1967 – 1972, there was the drug culture of Timothy Leary vs. the natural high taught by Ram Das. My revisitation of this time period remained as it did during that period using no drugs, just a natural high using breathing techniques and listening to the music of the era.
Many of my pieces are ecological and philosophical. With science much further along now, there are some who see every living thing as conscious. Combining that with religious, spiritual, and philosophical concepts, I have attempted to depict such. In the end, I believe we are One.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Theresa Richardson Crubaugh was born and raised in Peoria, IL. She moved to Florida her senior year of high school due to several traumatic events. Her first art teacher was an ex-New York artist, who apprenticed under Norman Rockwell. In 1979, she sold her first painting. She graduated with a B.A. in Art from USF, where she had her first solo show. Photography continued throughout her life with freelancing, volunteering at a state park, and working at photo labs. Theresa went back to school for a B.A. in Classical Latin and taught Latin with multiple subjects. She got married in 2010 and was moved back to Illinois. With her teaching career ending, she began pursuing her first dream to work her way through the gallery system. In 2023 she became a member of Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. She hopes a solo show will be in the cards.
© Theresa Richardson Crubaugh