RUSSELL CROTTY

Russell Crotty makes ink drawings of nighttime skies based upon his own astronomical observations. Merging two and three dimensions, he draws on globes of various sizes, inverting our notions of planet and sky. We become boundless observers of a contained universe.

Crotty also makes 2-dimensional drawings and largescale books. Sometimes the works include anecdotal text and notations from his field expeditions, exhaustively descriptive and intentionally verging on bad poetry and self-parody.

North of Santa Barbara, South of Crescent City, 2009


Little Hot Creek, 2009


Jupiter, 10, 2004


NGC 7000, The North American Nebula, 2004


Grey Bluffs, 2009


The North Slab, 2008


The Islets Off Belmullet, 2008


West of Central, 2008


Venus Over High Glade, 2006


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