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Russell Crotty—Globe Drawings
March 5– June
27, 2004
New Work Gallery
 This exhibition is Los Angeles-based artist
Russell Crotty’s first solo museum exhibition on
the east coast of the United States. It surveys Crotty’s
drawings on globes that range in size from eight to forty-five
inches in diameter. Suspended from the ceiling, the nine
hovering globes—made between 2000 and 2004—resemble
a small galaxy of planet like spheres that invert our notion
of scale.
The exhibition has particular resonance for South
Florida as MAM is commissioning the artist to create a new globe
of the night skies over the Everglades. This new work by Crotty
stands as a lasting tribute to Florida’s most unique natural
resource.
Russell
Crotty—Globe Drawings is organized
by Miami Art Museum as part of its New Work series of projects
by leading contemporary artists. The exhibition is curated
by MAM Curator Lorie Mertes and developed in cooperation
with Lynn M. Herbert, senior curator, Contemporary Arts
Museum in Houston.
In Miami, the exhibition is supported, in part, by
a grant from the Funding Arts Network.
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