Grey Crawford
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Grey Crawford (born August 9, 1951) is a conceptual artist. He was born, lives and works in Los Angeles, California.[1][non-primary source needed]
Born in Inglewood, Los Angeles County, Crawford grew up in a small community in Claremont in the neighborhood of hard-edge painter Karl Benjamin as well as the painter John McLaughlin who lived not far away in the Dana Point beach area.[2][3][non-primary source needed]
Crawford started his classical training in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York in 1972, where he had close contact with Betty Hahn, Nathan Lyons, Michael Bishop, and Les Krims, among others.[4]
He returned to California as a graduate student in 1975 to continue his studies at the Claremont Graduate School.[4] Lewis Baltz had just departed the faculty but the influence of his neutral photographic documentation practice was still very noticeable. Besides, artists from a variety of disciplines were active during these years in Claremont as teachers and visiting lectures, like Michael Asher, Mowry Baden, Michael Brewster, Judy Fiskin, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Leland Rice, Paul Soldner, Harrison McIntosh, John Mason, and Ed Moses.[5]