Brandon Spicer-Crawley

A versatile and improvisational artist, Brandon Spicer-Crawley (b. 1980) works with a wide range of material, including wood collage, ceramic, calligraphy ink, paper sculpture, and acrylic paint pen. His style is both free-form and carefully crafted, with recurring motifs of letters, police officers, and squiggly lines. Creating dynamic compositions of abstract shape and figurative forms, Spicer-Crawley develops an electric series of marks emanating outward, creating vibrating, dynamic spaces. 

In 2019, Spicer-Crawley had his first solo exhibition at Little Berlin Gallery in Philadelphia, and displayed a collection of original drawings, paintings, and sculptural work. He was also selected as one of ten artists in the international Sprocket Mural Works competition to design and paint a mural on a wall in Harrisburg, PA. Installed in August of that year, it is a 15 x 30 foot permanent installation in the historic midtown district. In 2021 Spicer-Crawley was invited to continue the mural with an additional 44 foot section stretching further across the wall.

Spicer-Crawley has worked in the studio at Center for Creative Works in Wynnewood, PA since its start in 2011. He lives with his family in West Norriton, PA. 

ALLEN YU

Allen Yu (b. 1998) makes drawings in marker and colored pencil that are vibrant and technically precise. Some favorite subjects include fruits, the Philly Phanatic, and candy. In his spare time, Yu collects brochures and schedules, enjoys reading, drawing, and traveling on SEPTA (South Eastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority). His favorite food is chicken. 

In 2023, Yu traveled with his family to South Korea. His most recent body of work is inspired by the public transportation there, including buses, commuter trains and subways. He is eager to exhibit his work in Seoul in the future. Yu lives in Bucks County, PA with his family.

Yu has consigned work with Galerie Bonheur in Saint Louis, Summertime Gallery in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Design Store. He has exhibited at NADA NYC, Outsider Art Fair NYC, and Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital in Paoli, PA. His drawings have been mentioned in The New York Times and New York Magazine’s The Strategist. Yu works at CCW’s Philadelphia studio four days a week.

Clyde Henry

Clyde Henry (b. 1986) is a multimedia artist who works on paper, ceramic, wood, music, and textile. With a distinctive mark-making process that revolves around the figure (particularly images of his family), Henry skillfully translates his artistic energy to any material he works with. In 2018, a two-person exhibition at CCW’s Gallery 241 featured a site-specific wall mural that Henry designed, incorporating painted passages and ceramic objects.

Henry has worked at Center for Creative Works for over ten years. His work has been exhibited locally in galleries at Haverford College, Pressure Club and Spillway Collective in Philadelphia, as well as at the Outsider Art Fair and Summertime Gallery in New York. His work is part of the collection at the YOWIE boutique hotel in South Philadelphia. In 2022, Henry had his first solo exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia. He lives in Yeadon, PA.

Jenny Garrity

On any given day, Jenny Garrity (b. 1979) will invariably be found drawing, seated with her nose so close the surface of the page it seems as if she herself is emerging from it, part of the family of gnome-like figures she creates. With delicate, hair-thin lines, forms develop from the accumulation of mark, each topped with a domed, bald head and faint facial features, full of expressive force. In her own private, self-contained way, Garrity has conversations with these little communities she creates, often seeming to chat with them while they come to life, populating her page. 

Garrity’s work was featured at the Curious Objects exhibition at Rago Auction House, an auction with a focus on self-taught, vernacular, and folk art, as well as the Outsider Art Fair in NYC. She lives with her family in Narberth, PA.