About

Porch Gallery Ojai presents Russell Crotty: Remote and Curious Worlds.

Since the early 1990’s, Russell Crotty has made significant contributions to contemporary drawing, especially with his distinctive ballpoint pen drawings on paper-coated suspended globes and within large-scale books. His work engages astronomy, landscape, mapping, surfing, and coastal studies, along with an idiosyncratic commentary on the natural and manmade worlds.

A serious amateur astronomer, Crotty has obsessively and enthusiastically documented the night sky and celestial phenomenon, utilizing his own small array of …