Today is Friday and Hugh will be at the Old Stone House from 4-6 p.m. if you want to drop by. Hint hint.
You
are cordially invited to the opening of Essence and Accident:
Photographs by Hugh Crawford at the Old Stone House on April 28, 2009
from 6-8 p.m.
Hugh
Crawford's photographs of the city, rural ground, trees and water are
passionately formal evocations of the visually serendipitous landscape
of rural California and Brooklyn. His close studies of airplanes and
trees have the intricate and expressionistic quality of a Jackson
Pollock. In Crawford's pictures of Coney Island in the snow, the faded
amusement park site 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.
Crawford has been taking photographs since he was a child growing up on
a walnut farm in Northern California. He studied photography and
received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the California
Institute of the Arts. His editorial work has appeared in Rolling
Stone, New York Magazine, Tattler and Newsweek. His fine art work has
been exhibited in numerous galleries in NYC and San Francisco. A
recipient of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, he was also a
artist-in-residence at ArtPark in Buffalo, NY. He is currently at work
on a book about Polaroid photographer Jamie Livingston. His photos can
be seen daily on the No Words Daily Pix feature of Only the Blog Knows
Brooklyn.
A freelance photographer and computer software developer, Hugh lives in
Park Slope with his wife, Louise Crawford, and their children, Henry
and Alice.
The Where and When
Essence and Accident: Photographs by Hugh Crawford
Opening Party on April 28th from 6-8 p.m.
The show runs through June 30th
The Old Stone House
Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope.
For information and directions
The gallery is open on weekends and by appointment:
(contact hugh @hughcrawford.com).