Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Jim Russell
Look Back
Painting
2020
Original ink on paper unframed
11"x14"
Look Back gives the viewer agency in a surveillance context, a risky proposition without knowing who is on the other side the camera.
“The Climate of Untruth series was commenced in late February this year, and is my response the fear of Covid-19 pandemic and our increasingly skeptical relationship with social media, politics and power.”
Work by
Jim Russell
Drawing and Painting
“My work channels the photographic authority, nostalgia and the graphic power of black and white images in order to ask critical questions about media, relationships, power and Canadian identity. I...” [More]