AUCTION RUSSNA KAUR

Russna Kaur was born in Toronto and currently lives and works in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Kaur completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Waterloo in 2013 and a Master of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2019. Her work is held in numerous collections including the Audain Art Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Surrey Art Gallery, and the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art. Kaur is the recipient of the Takao Tanabe Painting Prize (2020) and the IDEA Art Award (2020). She was awarded the Gathie Falk Visual Arts Scholarship (2019), the University Women’s Club of Vancouver Graduate Scholarship (2017), and an Audain Faculty of Art Graduate Teaching Fellowship (2018).

Kaur’s large-scale and multi-surface paintings are developed through explorations of colour, text, digital sketches, and mixed media. Her paintings are often made up of several modular fragments, a choice that Kaur believes reflects her varied life experiences. Painting allows Kaur to piece all of these experiences together. The lines laid on top of her composition represent the common thread that weaves together all of life’s distinct moments. In After it is no longer visible in the sky, Kaur lays thickly painted lines of varying width atop a magenta background to create a piece that can take different forms depending on how its separate components are assembled.

After it is no longer visible in the sky 2022, acrylic, spray paint, sawdust, cut canvas on canvas and wood panel On verso signed and dated 68 x 48 in, 172.72 x 121.9 cm; 3 components various sizes

Value $10,000

Donated by the Artist, courtesy of W Projects Lot #03