Jim Russell
Greeting
Painting
2020
Ink on paper
60"x48"
An indigenous hostess welcomes people to the Indians of Canada pavilion.This effort is designed to create more questions than answers . It is a critical view of the degree of denial of history, socialization, alienation and conformity that the modernist EXPO required.
“Greeting is part of a series of 22 pieces for my Ahead By A Century series about EXPO 67.”
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]