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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 instant when the light danced on the flesh of another human being.

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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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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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