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Russell Young (born 13 March 1959) is a British-American artist best known for large silkscreen paintings using imagery drawn from recent history and popular culture. Young's artistic output includes painting, screen printing, sculpture, installations and film.
Russell Young was born in 1959 in Yorkshire, where he was immediately put into a foster home, then a nunnery, and was adopted before reaching the age of one. No one knew who exactly his birth parents were, though there were rumors his mother was fourteen, and his father was from Italy.
Russell Young is best known for compelling, larger-than-life silkscreen paintings appropriated from recent history and popular culture. Alluding to the great Pop artists of the past, he reinvents bold, sometimes brutal imagery while bearing witness to the ambition and glamorous excesses of twenty-first-century America.
Russell Young, born in 1959 in Yorkshire, is a British-American artist best known for his large scale silk screen paintings examining cultural icons, the nature of fame, and the souring of the American Dream.
Russell Young is a American-British Pop artist known for his large-scale silkscreen paintings of cultural icons. View Russell Young’s 834 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Russell Young, born in 1959 in Yorkshire, is a British-American artist best known for his large-scale silkscreen paintings examining cultural icons, the nature of fame, and the souring of the American Dream.
Russell Young was the first American contemporary artists to ever be exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, with his work being met with critical acclaim by its Chinese audience as well as the rest of the world with over 15,000 visitors viewing the exhibition in the opening week.
Photographer, printmaker, and fine artist Russell Young confronts American glamour with a pop-art edge. Growing up orphaned in the UK, Young lied about their age at 15 years old to gain admittance to Chester Art College and Exeter College of Art to keep himself off the street.
Russell Young, (b. 1959) is a British-American artist best known for examining cultural icons, the nature of fame, and the American Dream through his large-scale silkscreens. His earliest breakthrough was his photography of George Michael for the sleeve of the album Faith in 1987.
Russell Young is an internationally acclaimed pop artist best known for his compelling larger than life screen print images from history and popular culture. Russell Young was born in Northern England in 1960. From an early age he was powerfully drawn to the idealized drama of the American dream.
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