Squaresites

Bruce Russell is currently painting a major new series of works on a square format, his painterly themes deriving from places of fable and myth. These works will feature in Russell's upcoming one-man show at the Beardsmore Gallery in London (21March - 21 April 2007).

Bruce Russell
Circles and Diamonds 2004-2006

Bruce Russell exhibited his new Circles and Diamonds paintings in two major one-person exhibitions in February and March, 2006. The Diamond Series paintings were shown at the new Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, 1-23 February 2006, and the Circle Series were exhibited at the Leinster Gallery, Dublin, 1-17 March 2006.

The 16 page catalogue in full colour with essays by Chistopher Horrocks and David Ryan is available from Frari Books for £5 plus £1.50 post and packing. Please email books@frari.co.uk or ring +44 (0)20 8390 9851.

Diamond Series and Circle Series

The new Diamond and Circle Series will be shown at the in New Orleans in Spring 2007 (pending the hurricane recovery programme), alongside a major 50 year retrospective of New Orleans native Kendall Shaw, one of the founders of the New York Pattern and Decoration movement of painters in the late 1970s.  This movement was reported and reproduced in Britain in early Artscribe issues, and strongly influenced and encouraged an emerging generation of British abstract painters challenging the hegemony of late modernist reductionism, as well as political, conceptual and text-based work.

A major essay by Bruce Russell and published by Frari Books will accompany this show. Russell is also curating a version of the show to come to the UK in 2007-8; this will coincide with [meta-] co-curated by the noted painter and critic David Ryan, updating and extending Russell's “5x20” show into a touring survey show and catalogue of current middle-generation abstract painters in the UK.

Diamonds

Circles

Zarzuela, oil on canvas, 2005

Offa, oil on canvas, 2005

Congeries

The Congeries Series was produced over two years 1999-2001 and introduced many of the graphic, map and chart-influenced motifs which have been developed in the Diamond and Circle Series.

Congeries

Accra, oil on canvas, 1999

GMT: Glyphs, Morphs and Tropes

This is the current monograph on Bruce Russell's work, designed by Charles Ryder and David Wood, with a major critical essay by Chris Horrocks, produced in 1999 to accompany his one-person show at Beardsmore Gallery.

GMT Catalogue
GMT No. 36 Cuban Heel
(detail) oil on canvas 1999

5 x 20
five abstract painters:
twenty years on

5 x 20 was a major touring survey show of the five painters selected by James Faure Walker for the 1979 Hayward Annual. It juxtaposed one work by each artist – Faure Walker, Jenny Durrant, William Henderson, Russell and Gary Wragg – from that show with new works produced 20 years afterwards in 1999. The show and accompanying catalogue was curated by Bruce Russell, with essays by Faure Walker and Chris Horrocks. The show toured to Oldenburg, Germany and New Orleans, USA.

5 x 20 Catalogue