Maui resident Carla Crow has achieved her highly respected multi-media professionalism through twenty-five years of art experimentation, development and exhibitions of her artwork.

In addition to her accomplishments as an artist, Maui artist Carla Crow has a wide range of related experience as a gallery director, exhibit curator and invited juror for numerous art-related events. She has also served as an advisor and juror to help launch an annual Teen Hawaiian Art Exhibit sponsored by the County of Maui and the Hana Culural Center & Museum. She moved to Maui in 1984, moving to Hana in 1990.

Carla's technique often involves decorative geometry. She prefers a limited palette, sometimes using only one color besides her basic black. Symmetry plays an important role in her compositions, suggesting order and balance.

She invites viewers of her work to ascend to a "second level" allowing what they see to coalesce with what may be stored in their conscious and unconscious memory. Thus, while her work may be based on a specific theme, or may include symbols borrowed from ancient cultures, what the viewer sees is a highly personal interpretation.

Carla Crow has earned statewide and regional recognition for her unique personal vision expressed through acrylic paintings on both canvas, bark paper and state-of-the-art digital printing on archival papers. Her continuing experiments in the use of handmade bark papers are prompted by her research into Hawaiian and Polynesian art and traditions.

Born in Chicago in 1946, art has always been an influence in Carla Crows life. The artist has traveled extensively through Europe and across the mainland. She studied painting and jewelry making, and then later took up photography while managing an art gallery in Kansas.

Some of Carla Crow's original paintings were selected by the Hotel Hana-Maui to be used as the matrix for a very limited edition of Giclee prints to decorate the guest suites. If you would like to see these prints, click below: