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Elizabeth Russell
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My work consists of abstract oil paintings, watercolors, collages, and sculptures that explore light, colour, proportion and gesture.When I am working, I draw specifically from distinct early memories of being in, near, or on the waters of the Atlantic seashore. The reduced shapes and colour relationships in my work relate to expansive views of water and sky, the simple resolute gesture of the horizon, and a marine experience of light, shadow and shape.
While these memories and open spaces serve as a touchstone for the internal logic to my visual language, the work itself is mainly about the act of painting. When I am working, I am most concerned with the fundamental questions that have always occupied painters and that are often resistant to language: why, how, when, what.
My work is a departure point for an experience that is completed by a viewer’s own history and colour memories.
Elizabeth Russell was born in Rockport, Massachusetts. Lives and works in Berkeley and San Francisco.
Elizabeth Russell est née à Rockport, Massachusetts. Vie et travaille à Berkeley et San Francisco.
ÉDUCATION
2016
Master de Beaux Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1998
Licence d'Arts en Studio Art, Peinture, Connecticut College, New London, CT 1996 Insituto Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020
forthcoming, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA 2018 Heatseeker, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA,
2017
Shape Logic,NADA NewYork,NY
2016
Other Echoes, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
2004
Four Paintings, The Urban Mercantile, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION
2019
Work on View at The Wing, San Francisco, CA
2017
12 Artists at 1240, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Takeover, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
Transformed, Borderline Art Collective, San Francisco, CA
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure / Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA Gala Alumni Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016
Papercuts, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure / Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fused Space and Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA Textstyling, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
2015
Ghost in the Hay, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
Revolving Door, a 3:1 Project, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA Open House, NYSRP Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Resonant, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Painting Expelled, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Textile-ish, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
2014
The Walls Fall Away, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012
(Re)Modified, Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas CA
Miniatures, The Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA 2011 Modified, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, CA
2010
Glimpse, Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA
2009
Cross Pollination, Fine Art Base, Sand City, CA
Found Objects, Fine Art Base, Sand City, CA
2007
Owning Pink, Lauryn Taylor Fine Art, Carmel, CA
2006
Home & Away, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Points of Origin, Lauryn Taylor Fine Art, Carmel, CA
Holiday Show, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA 2005 Launch Party / Silent Auction, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Part of the Magic, Williams–Sonoma, Brisbane, CA
2004
Adaptation, Sandbox Studio, San Francisco, CA
2003
Trannie: Rhetorics of Identity in Transition, White Box:The Annex, New York, NY
After Matisse/Picasso, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
HONORS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / AFFILIATIONS
2018
Cuttyhunk Island Artists Residency, Gosnold, MA
2016
Charter Resident, Minnesota Street Project Studio Program, San Francisco, CA
Westcliff Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO
Travel Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2015
Maloof Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO
1998
Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Distinction in Art, Jane Bell Prize Honorable Mention, Dean’s List High Honors,
Connecticut College, New London, CT
TEACHING
2018
Visiting Critic, California College of the Arts, MFA Open Critique
2017
Visiting Critic, California College of the Arts, Karla Wozniak and Michelle Murillo’s Interdisciplinary Critique
2016
Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, Kim Bennett’s Twin Histories, Hybrid Futures: Painting and Textiles
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Modern Arts, Beth Mangini, California College of the Arts
2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2D Color Translations, California College of the Arts
2010
Sustainability and the Arts Workshops: Natural Dyeing, Papermaking, Prospecting Local Clays. University of
Massachusetts & Bioneers Conference, Dartmouth MA
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