In his review of Cran's 2009 exhibition entitled "Bright Spiral Standard" at Toronto's Clint Roenisch Gallery, "The Globe and Mail"s art critic Gary Michael Dault described Cran's exhibition as a "dazzling sojourn in sophisticated visuality" and "fun" with its "shimmering, graphically delicate but exacting paintings." Dault said that Cran's allusive work borders on visual satire in which Cran gleefully references, analyses, demystifies and skillfully manipulates different genres and styles including still life, portraiture, and abstraction informed by Pop Art, Photo-realism, and Op Art. One painting "Sailor" was a product of nine years from inception in 2000 at the Emma Lake Artist's Workshops to its completion for this exhibition.