Russell Crotty
CATALOGS & PUBLICATIONS
2011
Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Drawn / Taped / Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York (virtual catalog)
2010
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection,
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Surfrider Foundation: Art for the Oceans, Surfrider Foundation, San Clemente, CA
I am the Cosmos, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (virtual catalog)
2009
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
New York / New Drawings, 1946-2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
Art and Text, Black Dog Publishing, London, England
2008
Landscapes of the Mind: Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Beijing, ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State
to:Night, Contemporary Representations of the Night, The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
2007
The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing: The Primary Means of Expression, Black Dog Publishing, London, England
The Temptation of Space, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
ArtWorks: The Progressive Collection, Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., New York, NY
Copro/Nason Fine Art; A Catalogue Raisonne, Last Gasp, San Francisco, CA
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK; traveled to CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporian, Bordeaux, France
New Directions in American Drawing, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; traveled to Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN and Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2006
Russell Crotty, Marquand Books, Seattle (August 2006); essay by David Frankel
Off the Shelf; New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Books, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2005
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon Press Inc., New York, NY
Drawing from The Modern, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
LA Artland, Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, Black Dog Publishing, London, England
Russell Crotty, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris with La Criee Centre d’Art Contemporain de Rennes, France
a very liquid heaven, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2004
A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, CCA Wattis/ICI, NY
Blue Sky: Visionaries, Romantics, Dreamers, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2003
Perspectives #138: Russell Crotty, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Lynn Herbert
Russell Crotty: Globe Drawings, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Daina Augaitis
Bigger Than Us: Russell Crotty and Kelly McLane, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Michael Duncan
2002
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA QNS, New York, NY
Lab Results: Three Artists’ Residencies in the Sciences, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensborough, NC
Personal Plans, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Christina Veigh
Drawing on Space, The Drawing Room, London, England; Kate Macfarlane
Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2001
The Universe: A Convergence of Art, Music, and Science, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Panoramas, Kunstmuseun Thun, Switzerland; Madeleine Schuppli
By Hand: Pattern, Precision and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; essay by Mary Kay Lombino
2000
Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Sea and the Sky, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA; Susan Stewart, Patrick Murphy & Richard Torchia
1999
Seven Wonders of the World, Book Works, London; Matthew Higgs guest curator
WDAYANO?, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Noel Korten
1997
Stoked: a History of Surf Culture, General Publishing Group, Los Angeles, CA
Mars Microprobe Mission Flip Book, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
STOPSTOP 1997, Glasgow, Scotland
1996
The Power of Suggestion, Notation and Narrative in Contemporary Drawing, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; Cornelia Butler
1994
Russell Crotty, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
Love in the Ruins, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1993
Hybrid Magazine, London, England, project page: “Visual Feature,” April
Picture Book, London, England, cover and pull-out, Issue #2
Works of Peace: 111 Artists, Galerie Bhak Young Duk, Seoul, Korea
1992
Drawing Show, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
1990
Frontier Tales, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
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2009
Campbell, Clayton; "Russell Crotty at Shoshana Wayne Gallery," Artweek, April, p.16
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2008
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2007
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2006
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2005
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2004
Sheets, Hilarie M.; “The Universe at the Tip of His Ballpoint Pen,” The New York Times, May 2, p. 44
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2003
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2002
Solomon, Deborah; "The 2nd Annual Year in Ideas / Pencil Revivalism," December 15
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Saltz, Jerry; “Good on Paper,” The Village Voice, New York, October 30
Smith, Roberta; “Retreat From the Wild Shores of Abstraction,” The New York Times, October 18, p. E31 & E33
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2001
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Drohojowska-Philip, Hunter; “Drawn to the Power of the Night Skies,” Los Angeles Times Calendar, March 4, p. 63-64
Myers, Holly; “Amateur’s Love of Astronomy Shines Through Sky-Scapes,” Los Angeles Times Calendar, February 16, F28
Myers, Holly; “By Hand Embraces Inconvenience,” Los Angeles Times, September 19, F3
Cheng, Scarlet; "Look Ma, No Computers," L.A. Weekly, August 26, pp. 52-53
2000
Dunne, Aidan; “When the Sky’s Not the Limit,” The Irish Times, August 12
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Harvey, Doug; “Godawfulism,” L.A. Weekly, November 16
Hughes, Robert; “A Flawed Ex-Paradise,” Time, December 11
Mckenna, Kristine; “California Dreaming,” Los Angeles Magazine, November
Muchnic, Suzanne; “Inspired Leaps From the Lab to the Studio,” Los Angeles Times, August 27
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1999
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1998
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1997
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1996
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1994
Crowder, Joan; "From the Pros to Emerging Artists," Santa Barbara News-Pess, April 22
Duncan, Michael; “L.A. Rising,” Art in America, December, p. 72
Kandel, Susan; “Doodling Everything,” Los Angeles Times, November 24, p. f20
Isaacson, Phillip; “Artists Make Their Marks at Baxter,” Portland Press-Herald, September 25
Shepley, Carol; “Paper and Ink, Doodles and Ideas,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 20
1993
Wilson, William; “’Biennial’ Uses Humorous Paradox,” Los Angeles Times, October 9
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1992
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1991
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1990
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1988
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1985
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