RUSSELL YOUNG
Russell Young’s Femme Fatale series features portraits of iconic, glamorous, and powerful women, each of whom has influenced the artist throughout his life and continue to inspire millions around the world.
Young depicts his admiration for these Femme Fatales through striking portraiture in his definitive style, which combines screenprinting hand-mixed colors on linen with his recognizable diamond dust signature. Each of these original hand-pulled works has been executed on a monumental scale to emphasize their larger than life status.
The
artist
underscores
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continuing
importance and relevance of these women, including Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor, given the cultural tensions and political discourse in contemporary society.
Femme Fatale
RUSSELL YOUNG Taylor, 2017 Crash Silver (Femme Fatale Collection)
screenprint on linen with diamond dust 71 3/4 x 55 in.
RUSSELL YOUNG
Bardot, 2017 Rocket Lavender (Femme Fatale Collection)
screenprint on linen with diamond dust 71 3/4 x 55 in.
RUSSELL YOUNG Hepburn, 2017 Electric Pink (Femme Fatale Collection)
screenprint on linen with diamond dust 71 3/4 x 55 in.
RUSSELL YOUNG
Loren, 2017 Hollywood Gold (Femme Fatale Collection)
screenprint on linen with diamond dust 71 3/4 x 55 in.
RUSSELL YOUNG Marilyn Crying, 2017 Storm Pink (Femme Fatale Collection)
screenprint on linen with diamond dust 71 3/4 x 55 in.
RUSSELL YOUNG Audrey Hepburn, 2010 b+w
screenprint on linen with diamond dust 38 x 30 in.
RUSSELL YOUNG
Marilyn Portrait, 2014 San Vicente Lavender Blue and Black screenprint on linen with diamond dust 27 1/4 x 20 3/4 in.
American Landscape is a collection of paintings that crackle with a brittle energy and narrate the fragility and duality of the American Dream. Russell Young questions the inherent fragility of a nation born of conflict and bloodshed, a country both young in history and heart that promises everything and fears nothing. America is a country that in less than 100 years went from clawing gold from its mountains to putting a man on the moon, and continues to push any and all boundaries, always striving toward that next achievement, and then the next.
American Landscape
RUSSELL YOUNG
Wave, 2015 (American Landscape Collection) indigo pigment screenprint on felt in 6 panels 74 x 120 in.
RUSSELL YOUNG
Mountain, 2015 (American Landscape Collection) indigo pigment screenprint on felt in 6 panels 74 x 120 in.
RUSSELL YOUNG
Magnificent Seven, 2015 (American Landscape Collection) indigo pigment screenprint on felt in 8 panels 93 x 120 in.