Criss-Cross
From left to right, zig-zagging back and forth: Jon Thogmartin, George Woodman, Fred Worden, Gloria Klein, Marilyn Nelson, Clark Richert, Richard Kallweit, Arnold Wechsler, Craig Fuller, Dee Shapiro, Charlie Di Julio, Elizabeth Hutchinson. Present but not pictured: Tony Bechara, Phyllis Rosenblatt, Mary Ann Unger (Boulder Art Center, Nov., 1979, Criss-Cross Pattern Project and Conference)
Criss-Cross was an artists cooperative that formed in Colorado in the early 1970s.
Having evolved out of Drop City, the 1960s artists' community, C-C focused on issues surrounding "pattern and structure" and became associated with the 70's art movement "P&D"(Pattern and Decoration).
In 1974, the five founders, Gene Bernofsky, JoAnn Bernofsky, Richard Kallweit, Charles DiJulio and Clark Richert, artists and filmmakers from Drop City, regrouped in Boulder, Colorado to start the new artist's cooperative. C-C's purpose, like the Drop City purpose - the Criss-Cross purpose was to function in a "synergetic" interaction between peers to create experimental artistic innovation. Between 1974 -1980 the participants in Criss-Cross expanded to include filmmaker Fred Worden, University of Arkansas painter/printmaker Marilyn Nelson, and New York artists Gloria Klein, George Woodman and others.
Informal gathering of Criss-Crossers and friends at the Spring Pattern Project, April 1979, NYC. Includes Phyliss Rosenblatt, Richard Kallweit, and Gloria Klein. Art by Mary Ann Unger displayed on the wall.