Sally Rusty

Russell Altice Case

I started out at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago working with Elizabeth Rupprecht. She was a direct student of Hans Hoffman. (and later I worked with William T. Williams, a student of Al Held and also a student of Hoffman)

My work within this lineage was informed by spatial and color field formal construction with lots of squares flying around. Though retinal painting became how my paintings "looked."

Frank Stella's Working Space had made a strong case for perspective and volume and so like Kerry James Marshall I decided to hang the objects back on Cezanne's grid. Those objects that Hoffman had knocked off.

I finished my formal studies with Lennart Anderson in NY. (himself a student of Edwin Dickinson alongside Al Held at the Art Student's League-- and I am delighted to live in a city that hosts Dickinson's masterpiece The Cello Player) This led me to pursue a more Venetian lineage. This was a line of gestural colorists, soft southern European edge painters from Velasquez and Titian to Chardin, Corot, Degas, Sickert, Morandi, and then for me Lennart.

2001-2003 MFA - Brooklyn College School of Art
2001 Terra Fellow
2000-2001 Post-Baccalaureate - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1993-1997 BFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Dissertation “Western Influences on Zen Buddhism and Zen Modernism”
1992-1993 New Orleans Centre for Creative Arts

2013 Finalist BP British Portrait Award
2012 Collection of Eugene Ruffin, Carlsbad, CA
2011 Collection of Paul Tudor Jones, Greenwich, CT
2010 Permanent Display at Yoga Moves “Corpse Poses” SF, CA
2009 India Song House, Mysore India
2008 Royal Academy of Portrait Painters
2006 Annual Exhibition of the New English Art Club, London
2005 Images of Organic Farming, Mall Galleries, London
2005 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, selected by David Hockney
2005 Red Mountain Gallery, Ouray, Colorado
2004 Pause, Brighton, UK
St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY
Collection of Dan Cameron, senior curator New Museum of Contemporary Art, Manhattan, NY
Collection of Charles Fears, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY
Brooklyn War Memorial, Graduate Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Terra Museum of American Art, Giverny, France
Gallery Two, Post-Graduate Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Art in Windows, Miracle Mile, Chicago, IL
1998 Museum of Traditional Art, Seoul, South Korea,
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