Today and every Friday in April and May from 4-6 p.m. Hugh Crawford will be in the gallery at the Old Stone House to talk about his show of photographs, Essence and Accident. There will be wine and cheese.

All the photographs are for sale.

Hugh Crawford's photographs of urban landscape, rural ground, trees and water are passionately formal evocations of the serindipitous and accidental in rural California and Brooklyn, NY. His close studies of airplanes and trees have the intricate and expressionistic quality of a Jackson Pollack. In Crawford's pictures of Coney Island in the snow, the faded amusement park is transformed into a moonscape of fake palm trees and the scrappy relics of a bygone era. His extreme close-ups of water reveal an abstract world of mood and motion that are meditative and supremely seductive.

The Where and When

Essence and Accident: Photographs by Hugh Crawford
The Old Stone House
Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope.
April 1 – June 30, 2009.