Westside : Muralist Cronk Gets Public Service Award
The side of a building in Venice may not be a high-priced art gallery. But, for a public artist, it’s not bad exposure.
Ask muralist Rip Cronk.
Cronk, whose nine public paintings adorn buildings and walls across Venice, received the Venice Boardwalk Community Service Award on Thursday. Cronk’s best-known work includes “Venice Reconstituted” and “Venice on the Halfshell”--both parodies of Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus.”
The Venice Boardwalk Assn., a group of restaurateurs, merchants and residents, presents the community service award periodically to local artists and performers. Recipients receive hundreds of dollars worth of gift certificates to local stores and restaurants
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