Video: Art Dealer Craig Krull | Celebrating A Life In The Arts

Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Craig Krull Gallery at Bergamot Station Arts Center, this video traces Krull's history in the LA art world. A native Angeleno, his connections and relationships run deep. His support, representation and educational efforts on behalf of Southern California artists and culture have been his consistent passion since high school. Krull studied locally at CSULB and UCLA, and learned the gallery business as Director of three entirely different galleries. He opened his first space, Turner/Krull Gallery on Melrose in 1991.

At that location, he focused on photo based media, exhibiting key figures of LA's photo community such as Anthony Hernandez, John Divola, Jo Ann Callis, Robbert Flick, Lewis Baltz, Edmund Teske and others. His program also explored conceptual applications of photography as exemplified in the group show, "Action/Performance and the Photograph."

In 1994, he became a founding gallery at Bergamot Station Arts Center, where he continues to this day. The gallery program moved beyond photography and now encompasses all media, including an ongoing devotion to the art of the LA Chicano community. This video touches upon highlights of those decades, and specifically addresses personal stories of a few artists with whom Krull had close relationships, Julius Shulman, Peter Alexander, Carlos Almaraz, Don Bachardy, James Fee, Alexis Smith, Llyn Foulkes, Phranc and Michael Deyermond. A film by Eric Minh Swenson. (Film number one-thousand nineteen-hundred and eight in the series.)