The Flower People and the Banana People Battle It Out in the So-Called Modern World
posted by Russell @ 1:12 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2009
About Me
- Name: Russell
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Russell C. Smith / Collage and Mixed Media Artist / Artist Statement Combining humor with the human motivations that live within us all, my collage and mixed media art is made to linger in the viewer’s mind. Using the medium of pasted paper and mixed media, I am interested in touching on the underlying feelings and findings we carry inside us. Collage is about the constantly transforming world we find ourselves in, the times we live in, and the new century we find ourselves in. Looking through multiple lenses, collage references the past and pulls back a curtain on the present in a way that pauses our digital modern lives. For a time, we can step into an alternate version of the world and find our place inside it. In a series of quick jump cuts and intuitively connected images, collage is how the modern world sees itself. My collage and mixed media pieces are informed by years of life drawing, connecting to art, books, and movies at a young age, years of viewing every type of visual art, writing, reading, and engaging in the cultural now. I studied life drawing at the Art Students League of New York from 1978-1980, and took classes in Chinese brush painting in New York City.
Reading Links
- Powells Books
- Village Voice Books
- The New York Times Book Review
- City Lights Books
- The Booksmith
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- St. Mark's Bookshop
- Strand Book Store
- SF Site
- Tattered Cover Book Store
- Reading Frenzy
- Cody's Books
- Locus Online
Art and Museum Links
- Flickr/Russell C. Smith Photographs
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Tate Modern
- Collageart.org
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Online Picasso Project
- Kurt Schwitters Sprengel Museum Hannover
- Bodleian Library University of Oxford
- The British Museum
- The State Hermitage Museum
- Banksy
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Picasso National Museum Paris
- The Pompidou Centre
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Picasso Museum Malaga
- Tokyo Art Beat
- A 1 Mail Art Archive
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- The Whitechapel Art GAllery
- The Andy Warhol Museum
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Roq La Rue Gallery
- Imagekind/Russell C. Smith Collage Art
- Squidoo Lens/Russell C. Smith
- Darrell Kirk Photography
BlogTown
- Boojazz!
- Starhead Boy
- Lance Hofstad Photography
- Collage Clearinghouse
- PowellsBooks.Blog
- Junc Gallery
- Pavel Zoubok Gallery
- Art Biz Blog
- EmptyEasel
- Eye Level
- Artforum Diary
- Artworld Salon
- FutureModern
- NEWSgrist where spin is art
- Art News Blog
- We Make Money Not Art
- Artopia
- CultureGrrl
- Port
- e-flux
- The Cool Hunter
- Modern Art Obsession
- Art Blogging LA
- BAD! Kitty Art Studio
- Absolute Arts
- The International Museum Of Collage, Assemblage And Construction
- The Map Room
- BoingBoing
- Edward Winkleman
- Fallon and Rosof's Art Blog
- Rebecca's Pocket
- Art To Go
- New Art
- Runaway Moon
- A Look At Art & Design
- GalleryDriver Art Blog Aggregator
- Concerning Photography
- lines and colors
- Bookshelves of Doom
- Google Blog
- Londonist
- Monsters A Go-Go
- Hankblog
- Guardian Unlimited Culture Vulture
- Seattlest
- SF Signal
- Bookdwarf
- Shaken & Stirred
- Finding Wonderland
- Long Bets
- Gothamist
- Incoming Signals
- Expecting Rain
- Burry Thoughts
- Graham Joyce
- Paperback Writer
- Dr. Frank's What's It
- Seth's Blog
- Gaping Void
- MetaFilter
- 52 Projects
- Neil Gaiman Journal
- Artdish Blog
- The Robot Co-op
- Betterhumans
- Imagekind Blog
- Modern Art Notes
- Her Third Eye Opens, and the Dark Princess Discove...
- Sway
- Room Number 7 In The Memoryville Hotel
- Undersea Garden
- Shiny
- Blue Leaf River
- DoubleFlower&PlayingCard&Stamp
- Sayonara To Swirlyville
- Wondering Woman
- Orange Poppies, Blue Sky
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