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FASO Collector Recommends: Liana Russwurm
Biography
Artist Statement ~ HOMME
“This painting will haunt my memories while warming my heart”
This comment, from Colin Mitchell, Editor at Standard Guide Advocate, captures the essence of my artistic aspirations. This unsettling dissonance provokes important conversations about perceptions of identity through a sociological façade.
Rendered within the core of my work, media and contemporary culture define feminine notions of beauty, vulnerability and sexuality using the materiality of veiled imagery.
White Orchid is best described as a figurative still life. It is the first painting of a series where the focus will be contemporary men set within a visual narrative telling their story reflected through both the objects and the subject. Influenced directly from time I spent in Italy as a student and the work of Caravaggio, particularly his portraits of young men. Using chiaroscuro lighting, musical instruments, flowers, plants, fruit, vegetables and other pieces are added creating a still life reminiscent but the models are chosen for their unique individuality and sense of strength with no barriers of age, nationality or body type.
Working figuratively my work questions the status quo on perceptions of beauty through staging scenes, using models, props and lighting I utilize digital images as sketches to develop a hard copy to use for a visual reference for each painting. This series is unique as it if the first time I am ‘standardizing” the work through sized, frame and table which will make up the base of each piece.
BIO
Liana Russwurm was born in 1966 in Elmira, Ontario. After graduating OCAD University in 2007 she spent four years recuperating from a work place accident, which eventually led her to purchase an old church in Alvinston Ontario where she could focus primarily on painting. Her work has been displayed in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Italy and Ireland. Her art is owned in public and private collections across Canada.
She is best known for her ongoing series Dime Museum, The paintings Dance of the Dead (2008, oil on panel), The Judy (2012, oil on panel) and Americana (2013, oil on panel). Americana won Peoples Choice Award at the Judith and Norman ALIX Gallery 2013 Juried Art Show. Her painting Beak (2013, encaustic on panel) from her series Façade won best in the show at the First Annual Petrolia Playhouse Juried Art Show.
White Orchid (2018, oil on panel) was chosen as a part of the International Biennial Portrait Competition in 2019 at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wausau, Wisconsin. This painting is the first painting in the series she is currently working on for an exhibition called Homme, which with open at the Judith & Norman ALIX Art Gallery in the fall of 2022.
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