Masks

Crooms presented two exhibits at Passaic County College.  The first one in 1982, celebrated his masterly “Masks”.  Crooms displayed work executed with what he calls “Street Medium” in 1985.  He uses spray paint and dayglow paint to develop ideas previously sown in the self- contained medium of the mask.  Crooms’ statement on Apartheid is spread out on a large, unstretched canvas, as a specter of a man is visualized in the act of leaping over a dangerously hot zone trying to escape the hands that attempt to catch him.   Written by Danielle Rubel, Curator – Passaic County Community College Cultural Affairs Department Art Exhibit.  “I Talk to My Ancestors”, January – March 1985.