José Víctor Crowley

José Victor Crowley is a Mexican painter who specializes in abstract informalism. He is classified as a member of the Generación de la Ruptura, and his influence is strongly based on his experience in Europe at the beginning of his career. Self-taught, his career has spanned over fifty years, becoming a member of Mexico’s Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 2006.

Life Crowley, was born in Mexico City in 1935. As a child his inclination to draw and paint was evident, with his father teaching him how to make colors, pigments, binders and all the special effects which has influence in his career to give him the skills.

When Jose Crowley was young his maternal grandmother and uncles who were artists taught him but he did not have any formal training. After graduating college, he traveled to Europe in 1958 and 1959. In Paris he search and found a group of abstract informalist style painters, who publicly defended traditional French painting techniques and styles. His experience with this group has been a significant influence on his work to this day, where he took the real ideas of this tendence to make mixing paints in beautiful abstract and color contrast paints. He currently lives in Tlanepantla in the Mexico City metropolitan area. His works can be found in a number of notable public and private collections including those of the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Gaimusho Economic Cooperation Bureau in Tokyo, CINESTAV del Instituto Politecnico Nacioanal, Mexican embassy in Japan, Museo de Arte Moderno in Quito, Ecuador, the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México and the Royal Theatre in Marrakesh. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, and served on the organization’s board. He has also exhibited with the institutions various times including an event for Mexico’s Bicentennial "Cumbre Latinoamericana "held at Hospicio Cabañas

Artistry He is classed with the Generación de la Ruptura but more he classifies his work as abstract informalism.

His work reflects is interest in recreating human thoughts and emotions. In his style of painting, the colors are key to expressing emotion, rather than a figure. His work aims to capture emotions in undefined forms based on nature. Crowley says that abstract informalism is more emotive, more directed at feelings rather than something cathartic from the painter.