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THE ART MARKET
RUSSELL CONNOR
Oil on Canvas
Collection of James Nicholson
2009
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"One of the pleasures of living in Manhattan is the sidewalk gallery on the Upper West Side -- not painting and sculpture, but a splendid panorama of fruits and vegetables, set out, in tantalizing display, stacked in front of produce markets. What if, I thought, one were to take details of still life paintings by famous artists, put them in boxes, stack them up together on one canvas, as if they were for sale on the sidewalk? I enjoy time travel, moving around in art history, paying homage to artists I admire, with humor whenever possible. This demanded to be called The Art Market."
 
Video: In Performance -- In a show called "Toys From My Attic," I read from my essay Attila and the Press. Like my painting, the essays play with history, hoping to somehow shed a little light on today.
Video: Peter Hoving’s new 13 minute video essay about my work, The Haunted Studio of Russell Connor, was selected for the 26th Festival of Films on Art (2008), Montreal.
Special Gallery: The Haunted Studio. This series is an homage to the extraordinary artists in whose intimidating shadow I work and play. Beginning with self-portraits of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Cezanne, and others, it now expands to include familiar faces from famous paintings, saints, cardinals, popes, kings and just ordinary people.
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