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Susan Anne Russell 2023-2024 RED DOT MIAMI_ MECENAVIE Gallery, France 2022 Spectrum Miami Booth 2023 RED DOT MIAMI ART WEEK_ MECENAVIE GALLERY, FRANCE 2024 ART EXPO NYC 2024 ART LUXEMBOURG 2024 ART PARIS 2022 The Other Art Fair- Chicago Judge- 2021- Deerpath Art League- Lake Forest Judge 2017 -Festival of The Arts -Cook Mansion Libertyville Art Show "I am an artist. I live, breathe and feel art everyday. Art is my inner world of dreams, fantasies and exploration." Art is everywhere. Being an artist is learning how to see, perceive, enlighten, and evoke. My textbook" Exposing Yourself to the Performing Arts" has been published by BVT. The paintings : Beatrice and Aphrodite are printed in the book. The book is in many international libraries, including: Oxford University Bodleian Library, Harvard University Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Yale University Sterling Memorial Library, Columbia University Music and Arts Library Dodge Hall, Cornell University- Sidney Cox Library, Rutgers Douglass Library, The RADA- Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, University of Chicago Regenstein Library, Oberlin College Library, The Spertus Museum Library, Jewish Theological Seminary Library, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni Venice, Italy, UCLA Music library, University of Tel Aviv -Buchamann Mehta Music Library, Rijksmuseum Research Library, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Fondazione Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy, The Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Musee d'orsay, Paris, France, The MCA Sydney, Australia, The Jewish Museum in Prague, Lake Forest Library, Eastman School of Music Library, St. Mark's Bookstore, NYC Orwig Music Library at Brown University, New York University Library, and the Art Institute's Ryerson Burnham Library. Having traveled to Rome and Paris I returned with a unique aesthetic, balancing the inner spirit and the material world. Reworking the ideology of mythological imagery, busts, religious figures, icons, abstracts, nudes, the celestial, and the power of landscape, I seek to uncover a common denominator in our civilization. The techniques employed include subtractive effects, layering, washes, varnishes, and glazes, bringing forth dreamlike visions. I paint many different genres. From landscapes, to abstracts, nudes, portraits, still life, to full scale commissioned murals.