The Disciple |
Russ Warren
Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Disciple| Russ Warrnen Les Yeux du Monde Gallery 841 Wolf Trap Road Charlottesville VA 22911 All rights reserved. Publication © 2021 All artwork © by the artist All text © by the gallery
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Cover The Disciple, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
The Disciple Russ Warren 6 March — 16 May 2021
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cover, page 26 The Disciple, 2020
u Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000 ..... Man with Cloud, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
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Dr. Fauci, 2020 u Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
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page 6 Mountain Dove, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
page 7 Bounty at Wolf Trap, 2020 u Oil on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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page 8 I Dreamed of Zeke and Sisyphus, 2020 u Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
page 9 Un Chien Andalou, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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page 10 Cognin, 2020 u Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
page 11 Pineapple Ascending, 2020 u Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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page 12 Queen Anne’s Revenge, 2020 u Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
page 13 Oh Tamayo!, 2020 u Acrylic, newspaper and collage on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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page 14 Deep into August, 2020 u Acrylic on canvas, triptych, 60 x 120 inches $20,000
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Detail, Deep into August, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches
page 16 Guitars and Melon, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
page 17 Guitars and a 10 Cent Moon, 2020 u Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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u Artwork included in the exhibit.
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Guitars and Lutes, 2020 u Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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page 19 Two Guitars, 2020 u Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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u Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000 page 21 Two Houston Rodeo Clowns Meet on the u Yellow Brick Road, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000 page 23 Surface Orbits, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000 page 25 My Beatin’ Heart, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches $9000
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page 26 The Disciple, 2020 u Acrylic and collage on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
page 27 The Matador, 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
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Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000 Big Still Life, 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
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Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000 page 31 Large Combine, 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
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Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000 page 33 Blue Muse, 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
..... page 34 Blue Nun, 2019
Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000 Blue Combine, 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
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page 38 u CIV, 2020, CXI, 2020, u CVII, 2020 and CXIII, 2020 India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches $2500 each
page 39 CIX, 2020 u India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches $2500
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India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches $2500 page 41 u CXII, 2020, CXV, 2020, CXV, 2020 and u CVII, 2020 India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches $2500 each
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India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches $2500 each page 43 CII, 2020 India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches $2500
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Bio Views of the Exhibition
Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000 page 37 Red Muse, 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 48 inches $15,000
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Man with Cloud, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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u Dr. Fauci, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Mountain Dove, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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u Bounty at Wolf Trap, 2020 Acrylic on canva 60 x 40 inches
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u I Dreamed of Zeke and Sisyphus, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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Un Chien Andalou, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Cognin, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Pineapple Ascending, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Queen Anne’s Revenge, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Oh Tamayo!, 2020 Acrylic, newspaper and collage on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Deep into August, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, triptych, 60 x 120 inches
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u Detail Deep into August, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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Guitars and Melon, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Guitars and a 10 Cent Moon, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Guitars and Lutes, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Two Guitars, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Artist Outstanding in his Field, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u Two Houston Rodeo Clowns Meet on the Yellow Brick Road, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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Red Bull, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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Surface Orbits, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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Golden Boy, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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My Beatin’ Heart, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40 inches
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u The Disciple, 2020 Acrylic and collage on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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The Matador, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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La Niña, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Big Still Life, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Blue Head, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Large Combine, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Red Combine, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Blue Muse, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Blue Nun, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Blue Combine 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Triple Combine, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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Red Muse, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 48 inches
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u CIX, 2020
India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches
Opposite Left to right, top to bottom u CIV, 2020 and CXI, 2020 u CVII, 2020 and CXIII, 2020 India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches
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CXIV, 2020 India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches Opposite Left to right, top to bottom u CXII, 2020 and CXV, 2020 CXV, 2020 and u CVII, 2020 India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches
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CV, 2020 India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches
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CIII, 2020 India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches
CII, 2020 India ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper; image 24.25 x 18 inches, sheet 30 x 22 inches
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Bio
Russ Warren was born in 1951. He grew up in Houston, Texas and began his training as an artist at the University of St. Thomas, Houston in 1969 under the tutelage of the painter Earl Staley. He received his BFA in 1973 from the University of New Mexico and his MFA in 1977 from the University of Texas in San Antonio. In the early 1970s Warren painted and exhibited in the Houston area and since then has had many important solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Whitney Biennial in 1981, the Venice Biennale in 1984 and the Corcoran and New Orleans biennials. Warren’s work is included in numerous museums and corporate collections and has been reviewed in art magazines and catalogues by critics such as Roberta Smith, Donald Kuspit, Barry Scwabsky and Carter Ratcliff. He exhibited with Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York and Chicago throughout the 1980s and continues to exhibit with Hodges Taylor in Charlotte and Les Yeux du Monde. Although Warren’s work has been characterized variously through the years as Neo-Expressionist, Magic Realist, Funky Figurative, and Mad-cap Surrealist, it always is his own mix of exaggerated and expressionist shadow, space, color, line, and iconic often humorous imagery. In this exhibition, The Disciple Warren pays homage to Pablo Picasso and Rufino Tamayo, two of his earliest artistic influences. He also chooses exclusively the vertical format for these paintings because, he explains it is “the same linear format and orientation as the viewer” and therefore is “more psychologically confrontational than the sublime and restful, peaceful nature of the horizontal as in ‘horizon’.”
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Colophon Design Anne Chesnut Photography Bill Moretz and LYDM Gallery Publisher Les Yeux du Monde Gallery Charlottesville VA
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