Steef Crombach
HOLO mountain fire, 2019, Muslin, beeswax, dye, great stuff, 72 x 50”
CowboyKiller, 2019, Found fabric and great stuff, 38 x 42”
Monkey’s land, 2019, Great stuff and gesso, 27 x 39 x 19”
Oh YEAH, 2019, Great stuff and gesso, 39 x 39 x 15”
Loose Leaf bed sheets, 2019, Hotel sheets and fiber reactive procion dye, king size
Steef Crombach (b. 1992) was born in Maastricht in the South of the Netherlands. Crombach earned her B.F.A from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague in 2014. Her work, 'Wat een zonde', won the 'KABK talent invest' prize. With the funds of this prize, she was able to research into American patterns, objects, colloquialisms, and concrete cultural manifestations in Austin in 2015. Since that time she has been visiting the United States for extended periods of time to curate, teach, exhibit, and research. In March 2018 Crombach officially relocated to Austin. She organized and curated the nine-artist exhibition 'Expedition Batikback' at Co-Lab Projects. She was the first recipient of Big Medium's artist in residence at The Line Hotel. Her work 'Piet' was selected by the Dutch king to be on exhibition at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam and she is a recipient of the renowned 'Contribution young talent' grant from the Mondriaan Fund in the Netherlands.