Lily Margarita Crawford (b. 2003) is an artist originally from Chico, CA, and currently based in San Francisco, CA. She primarily makes oil paintings and large mixed media works on paper that allow her to deeply explore her fascinations with the human form in movement and as a living vessel. She received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing at California College of the Arts, and her work has been exhibited at Van Der Plas Gallery in New York City and at the Novack Gallery at CCA.
The living vessels I create begin as anatomical maps in which I am thinking about the seen and unseen aspects of the human body. These vessels are seen in convergence with land, the cosmos, and my observations of motherhood. I am constantly zooming in and out of a micro or macrocosmic lense, in turn creating a rhythmic dance between the physical and existential. I frequently depict the body's acts of resistance and creation (menstruation and lactation), I see these bodily acts as being interwoven with the world's ongoing resistance movements; shedding the harmful and unnecessary and giving life to the nurturing roots of humankind.