Ford Crull at M-13.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article) From: Art in America | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: Henry, Gerrit | COPYRIGHT 1997 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Ford Crull - at 45 one of the bad boys of New York art who still sees a future in contemporary painting - dimmed his experimental luster not a bit in this latest show. Painterly phantasmagoria is Crull's stock-in-trade: canvases are variously surfaced in high-impasto snowy whites, awesome embroideries of blood-red and stoic orange, or stratospheric blue-grays. All make eerily festive grounds for huge extraterrestrial blooms, random patternings of fleur-delys, animals seemingly from...