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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PRESS

February 8 – March 24, 2024

Opening Reception: February 8, 5-7 pm

In The Expanse of the Celestial

Maya Frodeman Gallery,
66 S Glenwood Street,
Jackson Hole, Wyoming

This small solo show of new panoramic drawings plus one globe drawing focuses on locations in the coastal ranges near Ojai California. The magic of these celestial views is embellished with text expressing our universal connections with the cosmos.

CATALOG on ISSUU

February 14 - April 1, 2024

Opening Reception: February 17, 5-7pm

Day Pages

Chan Gallery
Pomona College Studio Art Hall
370 Colombia Avenue
Claremont, CA

Day Pages is a group exhibition that looks at artists' process and exploration in the form of working drawings, notes, tools, and sketchbooks. Curated by Mercedes Teixido and Stas Orlovski.

January 5, 2023 - February 9, 2024

Opening Reception: January 5, 5-10 pm

Time-Being: Scientific, Philosophical and Mystical Perspectives

Wonzimer
341 South Avenue 17, Los Angeles

A group show curated by Khang Bao Nguyen. This exhibition invites the viewer to perceive the featured artworks in light of certain scientific, philosophical, and mystical views on the nature of time-being.

October 23 - December 1 2023

Los Angeles Sees Itself

Biola University
13800 Biola Ave, La Mirada, CA

A group show curated by Carl Berg.

8 July to 19 August 2023

An Astronomy of Dreams

Hosfelt Gallery
San Francisco, CA

This solo show centers on Crotty's iconic night sky globes along with new panoramic nocturnal landscape drawings. The imagery explores extraterrestrial phenomenon from his favorite terrestial locations, embellished with written ruminations of his personal and peculiar perspective.

February 4 to July 2023

Southern California Contemporary Art: Gifts from the Stuart and Judith-Vida Spence Collection

Laguna Art Museum
LAGUNA BEACH, CA  

Judy and Stuart Spence’s history of giving to Laguna Art Museum now constitutes a significant 119 artworks by California artists and has become an important part of the museum’s collection. These gifts span California Conceptualism, West Coast Pop and Los Angeles’s Lowbrow art movement with works from the 1970s to the present.

November 4, 2022 to July 9, 2023

A Point Stretched: Views on Time

San José Museum of Art
San José, CA

A Point Stretched: Views on Time presents artworks that stretch, warp, and compact the viewer’s sense of time. By highlighting works that endeavor to conceive of time in unusual, mutable, and unfixed ways, the exhibition challenges the histories we tell and the expectations we hold for the future.

October 21, 2022 to March 19, 2023

Terra Firma

New Museum Los Gatos | Los Gatos, CA

In Terra Firma, a group art exhibition guest curated by Marianne K. McGrath, artists explore our relationship with the land and present unique interpretations of meaning and connection through diverse media, including drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, video, and sound.

October 1, 2022 to June 19, 2023

Parallax: Framing the Cosmos

The Frances Young Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY

Parallax: Framing the Cosmos presents outer space as a backdrop for understanding ourselves, interrogating both individual quests for unique places in space and culturally specific myths, including the US nationalist fantasy of conquering the moon and stars on behalf of “all mankind.” The exhibition offers interdisciplinary insights into and meditations on the particular and the universal, the past and the future, the eternal and the mutable, the intimate and the infinite...

September 3 to December 31, 2022

Infinity on the Horizon

Georgia Museum of Art
The University of Georgia
Athens Georgia

Inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe, this exhibition highlights modern and contemporary objects in the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection by prominent and lesser-known artists. The notion of “Infinity on the Horizon” sparks a dialogue about the use of abstraction to expand our understandings of the landscapes around us.

June 19 to September 11, 2022

Drawing Down the Moon

HAMMER MUSEUM
Los Angeles CA

This group exhibition operates at the crux of a lunar spectrum, between the lure and mystery of the unattainable moon and the eternal quest to conquer the moon in its material form. Drawn primarily from institutional collections in Los Angeles, the survey leads visitors through a panoply of objects dating from antiquity to the present.

June 9 – August 1, 2022

NOCTURNES: REFRAINS FROM THE BACKCOUNTRY

Porch Gallery
Ojai CA

Russell's second solo show at Porch presents a range of drawings in the form of his signature globe drawings, classic landscape panoramas, and a large bouldering book and prints... all contemplating the natural wonders of California, especially the backcountry expanding out from Ojai.

REVIEW in ARTILLERY MAGAZINE

February 4 to May 8, 2022

Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection

Griffin Art Projects
North Vancouver, British Columbia

Ranging from drawing, painting, photography, installation and sculpture, Gerd Metzdorff’s collection was drawn together over a period of more than forty years. Originally derived from Metzdorff’s modest savings of the per diems provided to him by the airline where he was employed as a steward, he purchased work by some of the most important European and Canadian artists working today, often starting at the beginning of their careers and developing lifelong friendships with them.

October 23 to November 24, 2021

Where We Are

Hosfelt Gallery
San Francisco CA

In a sprawling group exhibition marking this moment in history (and celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hosfelt Gallery) the work of 34 artists is employed to reflect on the zeitgeist of the year 2021. What defines the spirit or mood of this particular point in time?

October, 2021

Russell Crotty’s California Homegrounds

Birdwell Beach Britches
Blog In California #023

An article by Jamie Brisick

SEPTEMBER 21 to NOVEMBER 30, 2021
ONLINE-EXCLUSIVE EXHIBITION

Uncommon Ground

Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Los Angeles CA

An online-exclusive group exhibition of works on paper available online. The exhibition brings together the work of 17 artists, most if not all of whom are better known for their work in other art forms, such as painting or sculpture, but also actively made or make drawings or works on paper.

September 10 to October 10, 2021

A West Coast Vernacular

Over Under Room
Pilgrim Surf + Supply, Brooklyn NY

A small solo show of works on paper. The Over Under Room is a gallery and project space associated with (and situated in the lower level of) Pilgrim Surf + Supply, Brooklyn NY.

June 12th to July 10th, 2021

Differential Ontology

Wonzimer
Los Angeles CA

Differential Ontology is a group exhibition that investigates how the sense of self is constituted in relation to otherness. Notions that define the self as wholly self-contained and isolated are thus called into question. Curated by Khang Nguyen.

October 30, 2020 to September 19, 2021

South East North West:
New Works from the Collection

San José Museum of Art
San José CA

Reflecting the high-tech interests, lively cultural diversity, and innovative spirit of Silicon Valley, this exhibition features artworks by 30 artists from 11 countries, from internationally renowned figures to those working in California and the Bay Area as well as emerging practitioners. The exhibition highlights a dynamic array of paintings, sculptures, photographs, works on paper, and new media acquired by SJMA in the last five years. A Crotty globe drawing from their collection is in this exhibition.

October 9 to 11, 2020

Joyride:Ojai

various outdoor locations around Ojai

"Science Camp," a collaborative installation with Laura Gruenther. This "drive-by" group exhibition was created and curated by Cara Bonewitz to meet a pressing desire for meaningful ways to engage with art during the coronavirus pandemic.

February 7 to March 21, 2020

Russell Crotty:
Coordinates Unknown

Tayloe Piggot Gallery
Jackson Hole WY

An exhibition of recent work from several of Russell's ongoing series with astronomical and science fiction related themes. This will be Russell's first exhibition with Tayloe Piggott Gallery, who specializes in modern and contemporary art.

February 6 to May 2, 2020

THE QUIET SHOW

ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY
Portland OR

Featuring a selection of 20 process-oriented artists whose transcendent artworks evoke stillness and contemplation. The Quiet Show offers a respite for deeper engagement and reflection from our increasingly fast-paced, technological society. The exhibition highlights landscape, minimalism, abstraction and text-based artworks in paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs and photographs.

February 6 to March 31, 2020

FAULTline Art Show – The County Experience

Bartolini Gallery
Marin Civic Center
San Rafael CA

An exploration of the artists and important art movements that have grown out of the beautiful Marin County art scene over the last 80 years. Organized by independent curator and Marin County Cultural Commissioner Jennifer B. Wechsler.

February 5 to April 11, 2020

FROM BACON TO ZELLER: WORKS ON PAPER

Michel Soskine Inc.
Madrid Spain

Including works on paper from Bacon, Balthus, Freud, Giacometti, Gris, Grosz, Hockney, Michaux, Picasso, Zeller and others.

October 20, 2019 to January 25, 2020

Russell Crotty: Paintings Distant and Perilous

Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Los Angeles CA

The solo exhibition features extensive work produced over the past four years, along with a selection of rare, seminal ballpoint pen drawings on paper-coated suspended globes. Crotty describes this body of work as a "different take on astronomy" – obsessively documenting celestial phenomena blended seamlessly with references to landscape, mapping, astrophysics, and space exploration.

REVIEW in ARTNET NEWS

REVIEW in ARTILLERY MAGAZINE

REVIEW in Wall Street International Magazine

Review in What's on Los Angeles | Pick of the Week

2020

The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos in Art

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Review in Voice SB | Experience the Cosmos at SBMA

October 17, 2019

Space and Wonder: A Conversation with Russell Crotty

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Russell Crotty in conversation with Michelle West, curator of "The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos in Art," at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

2019

'I Like Drawings': A Conversation with Todd Hosfelt

SquareCylinder | Northern California Art

2019

STARGAZERS: INTERSECTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART & ASTRONOMY

Orange Coast College
Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion
Costa Mesa, CA

On exhibition in Stargazers: the collaborative installation piece by Russell Crotty and Laura Gruenther entitled "LOOK BACK IN TIME" ~ originally exhibited at the San Jose ICA in 2016. This group exhibition ran concurrently with the grand opening of the new PLANETARIUM at Orange Coast College.

REVIEW IN ARTILLERY MAGAZINE

REVIEW in ART & CAKE

2018

Universal Images: Artist RUSSELL CROTTY DRAWS FROM HEAVEN AND EARTH

805 Living Magazine

Link to online issue | pages 68 + 70

VIEW ARTICLE AS PDF

2017

ECLIPSE

Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

ART CENTER'S EXHIBITION WEBSITE

2015

ANOTHER GREEN WORLD

Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Crotty, Manglano-Ovalle and Our Fragile World | KCRW

2013

BALLPOINT PEN DRAWING SINCE 1950

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

Ballpoint Catalog

Making Cutting-Edge Art with Ballpoint Pens / Artnews

2013

THE BERGFELD ARRAY

Commission for the Collection of Craig & Kathryn Hall
at Hall Wines, St. Helena, CA

HALL ARCHITECTURE & ART | Russell Crotty

2010

SURFER MAGAZINE

Searching For Russell Crotty

2010

SEASCAPES AND SURF WORKS

Hosfelt Gallery | San Francisco, CA

Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest | ArtScene

2009

SURF WORKS FROM 1988-2008

Shoshana Wayne Gallery | Santa Monica, CA

Russell Crotty at Shoshana Wayne Gallery | Artweek

2009

NUEVA YORK, EL PAPEL DE LAS ULTIMAS VANGUARDIA

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain

2008

ART IN EMBASSIES PROGRAM

U.S. Embassy in Beijing

West Meets East | State Magazine, U.S Department. of State

2008

FIELD GUIDES AND GLOBE DRAWINGS

Galerie Ulrike Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany

2008

ARTISTS' FELLOWSHIP

The Ballinglen Arts Foundation | Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland

2006

RUSSELL CROTTY : BOOKS AND CHARTS

CRG Gallery, New York, NY

2005

RUSSELL CROTTY

La Criee Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France

2005

MESSAGES AND COMMUNICATIONS

The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

2004

RUSSELL CROTTY : GLOBE DRAWINGS

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

The Universe at the Tip of His Ballpoint Pen | The New York Times

2002

RUSSELL CROTTY

Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Russell Crotty and Jess von der Ahe at Hosfelt Gallery | Artweek


SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Centre Georges Pompidou
Musee National D'Art Moderne, Paris

Valencia Arte Contemporaneo e Inversion, S.L.
Valencia, Spain

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY

New York Public Library
New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, CA

Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA

Achenbach Foundation
San Francisco Fine Arts Museum , CA

Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego, CA

High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA

Miami Art Museum
Miami, FL

Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, NJ

The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Kansas City, MO

San José Museum of Art
San José, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara, CA

Laguna Art Museum
Laguna, CA

ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
Tempe, AZ

Arkansas Arts Center
Little Rock, AR

Des Moines Art Center
Des Moines, IA

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Cornell University, NY

The Ballinglen Arts Foundation
Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland



Russell's parents inspired and nurtured his art making. His mother Jean Crotty Guthrie was a talented art jeweler and his father, Harry Crotty was an accomplished mid-century sculptor. Jean and Harry were involved in the creation of the Mendocino Arts Center in Mendocino, CA in the 1960's.


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