Christopher Russell

Marcuse-InstallShot

Tanya Marcuse and Christopher Russell installed at IAP


 

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Inspired by visits to Henry Mercer’s Fonthill in Bucks County, PA, Christopher Russell began producing architectural ceramics in 1991, first for his own loft and then for private clients. His custom tile projects have been featured in the New York Times, New York Newsday, Food & Wine, and Tile and Stone. His sculptural ceramics have been exhibited at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; the Clay Center, Philadelphia, PA; and Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY. He participated in the Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Residency Program in Sheboygan, WI, and was a visiting artist at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Edgecomb, ME. Christopher Russell received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1983. He lives and works in New York City.

 

ABOUT THE WORK
Russell’s most recent project, After the Golden Age is comprised of multiple components including fruit, birds and obelisks. The elements have historical references to European decorative arts and monuments as well as natural history. Russell is using a new glaze that mimics the feeling of stone.

Presently Russell is completing a commission for the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Arts for Transit who selected his design proposal for the 9th Avenue Brooklyn Station. The commission includes cast bronze ornamental gates and finials in the shapes of magnified, bee-covered honeycombs and flowers. The motifs of bees and birds and thistles have been carried over from his earlier ceramic work shown here in 2009 and at Wave Hill in 2008.

 

Read his interview with Ferrin Contemporary’s Associate Alexandra Jelleberg HERE.


 

Christopher Russell is represented by Julie Saul Gallery.

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