SOLO EXHIBITION
Russ's first solo exhibition in eight years, Dream States and Detritus, is scheduled to open on August 30 in the Harry Krug Gallery at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, KS. The show will run through October 17. Read the press release here.
OHIO EXHIBITIONS
Russ's digital print, "Somatic Bystander Delayed by Peripheral Visions," will be included in the Butler Institute of American Art's 76th Midyear Exhibition, which will run from June 24 – August 19.
His two newest etchings, "Punishing Circus Disturbance" and "A Surgical Diversion From Times Gone Bad," will be on view in Hand Pulled: Ohio Printmakers at ArtSpace/Lima. This exhibition will run from June 16 – July 28.
OTHER EXHIBITIONS
The aforementioned "A Surgical Diversion from Times Gone Bad," was accepted into the 32nd Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink Gallery in Fort Wayne, IN. The show runs from April 13 – May 23, and the print was purchased by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art for their permanent collection.
Twenty of his prints and paintings were part of an extensive three-person exhibition entitled Portraiture: Three Twists at the Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene, OR. The show ran from February 24 through March 23, 2012. The other artists were Frank Moro and Mike Sirl. (View the exhibition postcard here.)
Two works, "In Praise of Mechanics" and "Playing Too Long With Dolls," were on view at the 27th International Exhibition in the University of Texas at Tyler's Meadows Gallery. The show ran from January 17 through March 9, 2012.
REVIEW
The Portraiture: Three Twists exhibition (mentioned above) was reviewed on March 14 in the "Viz City" segment of the News at Noon program on KLCC 89.7-FM—the NPR affiliate in Eugene, OR—by hosts Terry Way and Sandy Brown Jensen. A podcast of the entire show is available, and the "Viz City" segment can be heard here:
LOOKING AHEAD!
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Two of Russ's paintings were solicited for inclusion in an extensive international resource book, Modern Vintage Illustration, by Martin Dawber. Dawber is the author of several books on art, fashion and style, including Imagemakers, Pixel Surgeons, and the Big Book of Fashion Illustration. Modern Vintage Illustration examines cultural and art historical references in contemporary art and illustration and will include a Foreward by British critic and "design guru" Stephen Bayley.
The book will be released in early September and is available For preorder on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.