Ingrid Croce
Art // Memory
Inspiration
THREE OF MY FAVORITE: DREAMSCAPES COLLECTION
36 x 36 in | Mixed media on wood | 2018
Hekeani
30 x 40 in | Mixed media on canvas | 2018
Ouroboros
12 x 12 in | Mixed media on wood | 2019
A Tear in Time
MEET INGRID “Ingrid Croce’s artwork revels in the richness of life intensely lived.”
MEMORY AS MUSEThe sweetness in the bitter fruit, music pouring from a moving-down-the-highway van, a hummingbird determined to survive: these memories are my muses. With jazz flooding my San Diego studio, I create mixed media art that maps seventy-two years of surviving & thriving. In my head, it’s all layered — and it all exists at the same time.
AN AMERICAN FOLK ICON
“INGRID’S ART COMMUNICATES WHAT’S IN OUR MIND’S EYE, WITH A VOICE THAT CANNOT BE HEARD - ONLY SEEN.”
Margery Fischer Winter, Vogue 
FEATURED COLLECTION
Through the Agony and the Ecstasy, We Eat
A moratorium of time, Through the Agony and the Ecstasy, We Eat honors the intrepid entrepreneurs, chefs, builders, and artists who collaborated in the mid-1980s to craft San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter.
TOTES AND LIMITED EDITION PRINTSHigh image quality and premium detail
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CONVERSATION SERIESEavesdrop on Ingrid’s interviews with friends. “Like the best folk music, I sing the stories of other people’s lives. I hope my friend’s journeys inspire you as much as they inspire me.” IC
RUBY MAZUR
Ingrid chats with Rolling Stone’s “Mouth and Tongue” artist Ruby Mazur about pulling off the greatest scam in rock n’ roll history . . .
RUBY MAZUR Conversation Series
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Ingrid goes backstage with “The Boss,” bearded men, and booted women . . .
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Conversation Series
CONNIE NELSON
In head-to-toe denim and a streak of blue winking in her hairdo, the statuesque Texan Connie Nelson drops into Ingrid’s Bankers Hill home to share stories of life on the road . . .
CONNIE NELSON Conversation Series
Through the Agony and the Ecstasy, We Eat Collection
36 x 48 inches | Original Work
DESCRIPTION
Mixed media on canvas | 2015
A moratorium of San Diego time, this series, Through the Agony and the Ecstasy, We Eat, honors the intrepid entrepreneurs, chefs, builders, and artists who collaborated in the mid-1980s to craft San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter.
Drawing from personal history, Ingrid Croce captures the Much Muchness of the era. Through layering, the burgeoning Gaslamp district emerges as novel, urban space. The fanciful chandelier with the cheap cane chair; the rubble with the grandeur. Found materials - including historically-preserved Croce’s Restaurant & Jazz Bar wallpaper - evoke the idealism of the Downtown environment.
In Through the Agony and the Ecstasy, We Eat, Croce invites the viewer to consider our city’s legacy. To enjoy late-night conversations between dreamers - to delight in the striving, the imperfection, and the ambition behind the Gaslamp’s utopian vision.
DIMENSIONS
36 x 48 inches
AUTHENTICATION
Signed by artist.