Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Jim Russell

Horror

Painting
2020
Original ink on paper unframed
11"x14"
This image based on a screen grab from the horror film Train to Buhan, which documented the attempted escape via train from a zombie pandemic. This film was referenced heavily on social media at the beginning of the pandemic.

“The Climate of Untruth series was commenced in late February this year, and is the artist's response to the fear of Covid-19 pandemic and our increasingly skeptical relationship with social media, politics and power.”

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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]