Career
During the 1990s Crossman worked as an artist and illustrator in London, United Kingdom. Following a year as a fellow of the Fulbright Program in the United States, Crossman was sponsored by the British Council to represent the United Kingdom at the 2002 New York ArtExpo. Moving permanently to the States in 2003 Crossman became the invitational artist for the 2007 Spoleto Festival United States of America, an exhibition which featured large-scale figurative and political pieces. Crossman"s work was subsequently exhibited at the University of South Carolina, the Tallahassee International and the Katzen Arts Center at the American University in Washington, District of Columbia. In 2005 he was granted awards by the George Sugarman Foundation and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.
Following an exhibition examining the Iraq War from a European perspective, the New York Times commissioned two op-eds from Crossman in 2003, one of which was cited by Senator Carl Levin on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company"s Scarborough Country as "a timely call for balance" in the American debate regarding the Iraq War.
Crossman’s 2009 exhibit State of Shock, which examined violence in American public life, was the subject of several stories in the local media due to its depiction of real-life political figures, and it was met with organized protests when it opened in Charleston, South Carolina. Crossman was subsequently voted Artist of the Year in Charleston’s City Paper. State of Shock was brought to New York by Eye Level Art in 2010 to coincide with the midterm elections.
