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Artist Statement:
Artist Statement
I use color like a knife.
Segmenting dissecting
redefine, constantly searching
for what makes a shape or
look. What makes something
that defines a figure or
portrait. What subjects look
like? Most of my work is
based off of celebrities and
figures in the press. All of
my subjects come with certain
preconceived notions attached
and I search these out through
the use of color, texture or
light.
I work in oil paint,
specifically for it tonal
quality. The pure pigment
used with and archival medium,
applied to a snow-white
ground, achieves a certain
level of light penetration
that makes my work seem like
stain glass in full sunlight.
That theme of light
penetrating seems to travel
throughout my work. Whether I
am painting objects or like my
most recent work concentrating
on figure and portraits.
I use light to define the
color and to make a skeletal
structure to break open the
emotional connections of
subjects and viewers. If you
examine someone and see the
colors that dance across their
skin as light passes over and
through it, you will
understand where my painting
is coming from. It is just a
moment a glance into that ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Dominic Ribaudo, St. Louis, MO
Gordon Petty, Memphis, TN
Wanda Burge, Malden, MO
Jean Sentell, Quilan, MO
Mr. And Mrs. Joesph “Chip”
Smith, Stealle, MO
Robin Clow, Atlanta, GA
Bill Gould, Atlanta, GA
Mr. And Mrs. James McManus,
Atlanta, GA
Lelia Bowie, Jersey City, NJ
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Commissions:
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Exhibitions for Shannon Russell:
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Shannon Russell
3495 Kennedy Blvd. <405
Jersey City, NJ 07307
Home and Fax 201 659 3374
Cell 551 208 4166
EDUCATION
University of Missouri-Columbia BFA program
SHOWS
2008 Naked and Naughty, Jersey City, NJ
2008 Celebrating the American Sensibility, Jersey city, NJ
2007 Rock Soup Studios, "Basel" Miami, FL
2007 "Awakening" Mana Fine Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2006 "Voices" Mana Fine Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2005 “One American Dream” Grace Van Vorst, Jersey City, NJ
2004 “Do you Have Something to Say”, Grace Van Vorst, Jersey City, NJ
2003 Gallery 110, “selected New Faces” New York, NY
2001 Left Hand Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Gwynette County Gallery, “Yellow Brick Road”, Gwynnett, GA
Auroa Gallery “portraits”, Atlanta, GA
Mean Street Gallery, “Fall”, Atlanta, GA
2000 Diversity Out Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Candy Factory Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Mean Street Gallery, “Spring Juried Show”, Atlanta, GA
1999 CTS, “violence/Shelter/Sanctuary, Atlanta, GA
Fulton County Arts: Main Street East Gallery, “The Edge of Today”, Atlanta, GA
Candy Factory Gallery, “Drawings”, Atlanta, GA
Means Street Gallery, “Fall Extravaganza”, Atlanta, GA
City Hall East Gallery, “Visions of Religion”, Atlanta, GA
City Hall East Gallery, “New Faces”, Atlanta, GA
City Hall East Gallery, “Juried Summer”, Atlanta, GA
Mean Street Gallery, “New Paintings”, Atlanta, GA
Block Candy Factory, “Beginnings”, Atlanta, GA
Block Candy Factory, “Lace”, Atlanta, GA
Mean Street Gallery, “Summer Heat”, Atlanta, GA
COLLECTIONS
Dominic Ribaudo, St. Louis, MO
Gordon Petty, Memphis, TN
Wanda Burge, Malden, MO
Jean Sentell, Quilan, MO
Mr. And Mrs. Joesph “Chip” Smith, Stealle, MO
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