Bio

Adie Russell is a multi-media artist currently based in Kingston, NY. Her work in drawing, painting, photography, and video has been exhibited in the United States and abroad with solo exhibitions at the Leeds College of Art in Leeds, UK, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock in Woodstock, NY. Other exhibition venues include The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz where her work is in the permanent collection. She has participated in residencies at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, La Cipresssaia at Montagnana in Italy, at the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA, and Salem Art Works, Salem, NY. She is the founder of Strange Untried a new project engaged in facilitating and supporting artistic collaboration www.strangeuntried.com

Statement

My work engages with perception and the mechanisms by which we recognize and identify. Using found imagery as source material I look for ways to confound that mechanism, lingering in the space between representation and abstraction, foreground and background, landscape and portrait, the visible and the imagined. I am dedicated to artmaking that resists singular interpretation. It is important to me that the artwork lives in relationship to the viewer and allows for communication by exchange. My goal ultimately is to define a space that is fluid and conducive to repeated encounters, evoking experiences born out of a dialog between the work and the landscape of personal meaning produced by the looking.