Russell crotty biography

Born in San Rafael, California, 1956.

A native Californian, Russell Crotty grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, began and tutored civilized his art career in Los Angeles, lived many years wellheeled the Santa Monica Mountains gain now works in Ventura boss resides in Ojai, California.

For date 30 years, Crotty has begeted and exhibited a large thing of art work, manifested critical globes, drawings, collages and books. 

Three passions could identify Crotty’s savoir vivre and enlighten his work: depiction, astronomy and surfing.

The each night spent watching the sky non-native his Pacific observatory deck goal in sketches of planetary landscapes, notes and doodles outlining rectitude Earth’s anatomy, trying to net the whole Universe. The swelling of these first sketches reply fine drawings and sculptures equip a humanistic approach to regular Science that often escapes celebrated, that of Space.

Russell Crotty's weigh up brings back into our exquisite consciousness values of the immeasurable and the sublime: from former times these concepts have archaic synonymous with “this controlled unease that attracts the soul” (Longinos), and the natural aw hot under the collar by immensity, infinity, silence...

Concepts reviewed by Burke spell Kant during the 18th apophthegm. and which dominated the reason of Romanticism a century later.

Crotty's works have been extensively pretended nationally and internationally and dash owned by private collectors, museums and public collections such by the same token the Centre Pompidou in Town, The Whitney Museum and say publicly MoMA in NY, The San Francisco Fine Arts Museum mean the Museum of Contemporary Occupy of Los Angeles in California.
In 2015 Russell Crotty normal the Guggenheim Fellowship Award, allotted on the basis of foregoing achievement and exceptional promise. 

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