Biography:

born in brooklyn, new york, during a blizzard.

Helen is an artist, registered architect, visiting professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, and mother. She has provided commentary for NPR, Metropolis Magazine, and The New York Times.

She received her fine art and architecture degrees at Parsons School of Design in New York, and Princeton University. Please click here to see Helen’s architectural portfolio.

Noted Shows, Publications and Collaborative Exhibitions:

TKTS Booth, The Van Alen Institute, New York, 1998

House Rules, The Wexner Center, Ohio, 1996

House Rules, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996

Prince Charles on Architectural Education: NPR, 1995

“30 Artists: 30 and Under”, The NY Times Magazine,1994

New Park: New Ideas, The Urban Center, New York, 1992

Riverside South: NPR, 1992

Selected Upcoming Solo shows:

2012  (June through August)

The Defoor Art Center - Forum Gallery, Atlanta

Selected Upcoming Two and Three Person shows:

2012  (February and June, 2012)

Correcting for Drift, Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta

Living Color, Poem 88, Atlanta

Painting Show, One Twelve Gallery, Atlanta

2013 (Spring)

Works: Helen and Ron Crawford, Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta

Selected Two and Three Person shows:

2011       

Radial ArtSpace, Drawings, Atlanta

HomeGrown Gallery, Decatur, Georgia

2010       

Radial ArtSpace, Drawings, Atlanta

Selected Group Shows:

2011       

HomeGrown Gallery, Decatur, Georgia

Radial Art Space, Atlanta

2010       

HomeGrown Gallery, Decatur, Georgia

Radial Art Space, Atlanta

Art for the Soul, Atlanta

Art in the Afternoon, Avondale Arts Alliance, Atlanta

Spotlight on Art, The Trinity School, Atlanta

The Temple, Atlanta

OCP Auction Jubilee, Atlanta

2009       

Art for the Soul, Atlanta

2008       

Art for the Soul, Atlanta

Corporate Collections:

CBS News, Washington DC

Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta

Selected Private Collections:          

Atlanta, Connecticut, New York, Maine, Washington DC

  

Books:        

Saltz, Jerry; Art Studio Door Signs, Ed. Terry Ward, Art and Junk 2010

Bibliography:

The Decatur Minute:  January 2011

Jen Sign Creatively: Art in the Afternoon, 2010

Avondale Arts Alliance: June Artists,  2010

Katherine Tyrell: “Making a Mark”, April, 2010

The NY Times Magazine, “30 Artists: 30 and Under”, 1994

Herbert Muschamp, “A Park as Not Just Another Pretty Space”, The New York Times, 1992

Interviews:

Hyperallergic, December 2011

Praeterita, August 2011

Awards and Research:        

1998       

TKTS Booth Design: Top 20, Van Alen Institute, New York

1996

Building Community: A New Future for Architectural Education and Practice, Carnegie Foundation, Member of research team      

Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize, Princeton University.

1993

Princeton University Full Fellowship, Princeton Univ. (1993 to 1996)

1992

Sigma Cum Laude, Parsons School of Design, New York