Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Jim Russell
Hall of Mirrors
Painting
2020
Original ink and pencil on paper unframed
11"x14"
This is a preliminary for the larger scale version Hall of Mirrors. It is based on a screen grab from television coverage of Mark Zuckerberg's interrogation by US Congress regarding Facebook's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its direct impact on the election of Donald Trump.
“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.”
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]