Ilana Crispi is a San Francisco based artist with an interdisciplinary practice incorporating ceramic arts with local histories and geologies. She has mined urban soil for gold, shared it with neighbors, sculpted it into ceramics, and built ephemeral monuments in the landscape. Her site-specific installations invite engagement and investigate ideas of power, access, and perception and the ways in which we experience our environments. Crispi has been the resident artist at the Rochester Folk Art Guild, Montalvo Arts Center, the de Young Museum and Can Serrat. She has shown at museums, galleries, and alternative sites in the USA, Mexico, Spain, Portugal and China. She is Assistant Professor of Art at San Francisco State University.
