Russell Stephenson is a native Texan who has spent much time in the Texas Panhandle, West Texas, and South Central Texas. He has earned a BFA in Sculpture, and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking. Russell has been an active participant in the San Antonio art scene, showing work and teaching in the community. His work has been awarded locally and he has an extensive exhibition record in and throughout San Antonio and across Texas. He is represented throughout Texas, including Laura Rathe Fine Art in Houston/Dallas, Process Art House in Amarillo, and Anarte Gallery in San Antonio
Russell Stephenson is interested in the exploration of color, texture, imaginary environments, and expressionistic abstraction. His work evolves throughout a number of techniques to explore intuitive design strategies, and emotive imaginary landscapes and environments. His current studio work involves a hybrid technique of sculpture, painting, and printmaking into work he calls ‘Intuitive Abstract Realism’.
My work is created with loosely rendered and intuitively controlled marks, which simulate infinite illusionary environments. These environments are based on personal experiences, internal places, and translating sound into visual occurrences. I consider these works to be imaginary landscapes, atmospheres and objects that are both created out of expressionism, while conversely leaning more towards systematic formulation. My work is concerned with texture and perception as well as surface and color. Overriding themes in my work involve abstracted imaginary landscapes, flawed or fallen nature, urban decay, and meditations on transcendence.
As a record of collective experiences, the marks and movements are at once fueled by automatism, and intuitionism. My works serve as a living journal, and transcendental artifacts. My range of materials grows with necessity, and accessibility.
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