Ken Crost Digital Fine Art

Education:

• Southern Illinois University, Photography Classes

• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Photography Classes

 

Professional Training:

• Studied with Ben Wilmore and Scott Kelby, renowned Photoshop experts

 

Professional Experience:

• Digital Imaging and Photography Services:

  • Oracle

  • J.D. Edwards

  • PeopleSoft

  • Great West Life

  • Health Dialog

  • Vicon Motion Systems

• Design Projects:

  • Posters, postcards, and magazine ads for galleries and theaters in Denver

 

Entrepreneurial Ventures:

• Founder, Before/After (2003 - 2010)

  • Specializing in photo restoration

  • Featured in “Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching” (Second Edition) by Katrin Eismann

 

Exhibitions and Awards:

• Juried Shows in Denver:

  • Space Gallery

  • CORE New Art Space

  • Lakewood Arts Council’s Black and White show

  • Next Gallery (Best in Show: “Universe” and “Dianna SXV2267”)

  • Photographers Gallery

  • Tenn Street Coffee & Books/Gallery (Best in Show: “Bleacher Bums”)

  • Circle 8 Gallery (Two-man show)

  • Artists on Santa Fe (Artist of the Month)

  • Gallery Obscura

  • Edge Gallery

  • Curtis Art Center

  • Kanon Collective (Annual Bibelot Show)

  • Redline (2012 - One Square Foot show, May 2014 - Intersection show)

  • ExhibitionsWithoutWalls.com (Abstract show: “Golden Rain”)

  • ScienceOnline Science Art Show (1st Science Art Show: “Big Bang”)

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• Other Notable Exhibitions:

  • Denver Modernism show (“Sprites”)

  • Littleton Museum’s Eye of the Camera Exhibition (“Speed Racer #2”)

  • Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder (Bike Art show: “Speed Racer #2”)

  • T. Bell Photographic Studio|Gallery (2016 Month of Photography: “Mr. Estrada”)

  • Boulder Art Association’s 2016 Labor Day weekend art show (“Q6”)

  • Spark Gallery’s Smartphone Art Show (“Ancient Ones”, “Legs”, “Beams”)

  • Littleton Museum’s “Own an Original” show (2021: “El Cuenco #10”, purchased for permanent collection)

  • R Gallery, Boulder (Circles and Squares show: “Isolation of Red 1”, Negative Space show: “Into the Wild”)

  • PACE Center, Aurora (Alternative Facts: Photography by Any Means show: “Sprites”)

  • Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA (Human Faces and Figures 2022 - Online Exhibition: “Dotsy is Here”)

  • Pocket Star Gallery, Athens. Greece, The Art of the Poem show, November 2022. Gallery now closed.

  • Pocket Star Gallery, Athens. Greece, The Illusion of Solitude show, April 2023. Gallery now closed.

  • National Association of Digital Artists, (Telling Stories Online exhibition starting October 2024)

  • Palm Art Gallery, Studio City, CA. (Interplay of Shadows, Light, and Colors, Page 5, November-December 2024)

  • Palm Art Gallery, Studio City, CA. (Landscapes of the Mind, January-February 2025)

  • ​Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Electron Salon, Starting January 9, 2025 to February 1, 2025​

  • Grey Cube Gallery, The Yellow Show - Online, Merit Award - November 2025

  • Fusion Art, Everything Abstract Show - Online, Honorable Mention, November 2025

  • National Association of Digital Artists - Fantasy and Imagination Show - November 2025

 

Gallery Past Memberships:

• Artists on Santa Fe Gallery - Denver CO

• Next Gallery - Denver CO

• Kanon Collective - Denver CO

• Color and Light Gallery, Madrid, New Mexico

 

Collections:

• Littleton Museum - 2021: “El Cuenco #10”

• Baker’s Art Center, Liberal, KS

 

Publications:

• Featured in “Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching” (Second Edition) by Katrin Eismann

• Shoutout Colorado, Online Magazine, May 2024 - SHOUTOUT COLORADO

• CanvasRebel, Online Magazine, October 2024 - CanvasRebel