Russell Young is a pop artist of international acclaim. He creates larger than life silkscreen paintings of images from history and pop culture. He hones the quality and texture of the original image and then enlarges to an uncomfortable size. Color plays a key role washing his subjects in faded pinks, yellows, blacks, silvers and blues.
“My creative process is the culling of images from newspapers, historical archives and the people who witnessed these events. With these paintings, I take this process and show you how different cultures view America; which in itself is worthy of attention.”
His series are:
PIG PORTRAITS
Pig Portraits is about the glamour in the dark side of crime, fame, sex, drugs and
rock and roll.
fame, shame and the realm of possibility
A series of paintings exploring American history from the last thirty years, seen through my eyes, as a young man growing up in England. These gritty, bare, pop-iconographic screen-prints are of historic events; my heroes and heroines shown the way I want them seen; glamorous in the dark side of the crime, fame, sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. Elizabeth Taylor in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, Jimi Hendrix, Man Landing on the Moon; The Vietnam Conflict, The Magnificent Seven, Black Power of the 1968 Olympics, Marlon Brando and The Sex Pistols.
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