Originally from Nelson, JK Russ graduated from Auckland’s MIT Faculty of Creative Arts in 2001. Working predominantly with the medium of collage, she creates fantasy environments where hybrid humans merge with plants, birds, and other creatures. The impact of humans on the environment is evident in her recent work.

Installation of JK Russ’s ‘Hard Sell Future’ 12 panelled collage at PAULNACHE Tūranganui-a-Kiwa Gisborne, Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo by Tom Teutenberg.

Based in Las Vegas, NV since 2010, Russ has developed large-scale collage installations where visitors contribute to the completed work. As a residency artist with Art Production Fund, she worked with visitors to P3Studio at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas to build up a reverse-glass collage where bird women dominated a desert landscape.

JK Russ, Hard Sell Future (atrium installation) courtesy of Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga NZ, 2020.

Russ worked with the City of Las Vegas to create a large-scale collage from contributions of cards and notes for the touring Hearts4Vegas installation. Represented by PAULNACHE, her collage work has been shown at the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt, the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, NV, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas, NV and the Torrance Art Museum in California. ‘Hard Sell Future’ has been selected to feature in a major installation of her work at Tauranga Art Gallery scheduled for August 2020.

JK Russ pictured with her performers at the Delano Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. IMG courtesy of the artist.

JK Russ is represented in New Zealand by PAULNACHE.

catalogue

Hard Sell Future (original)
Year created: 2020
Medium: Collage (large scale)
Individually framed panels of hand torn and cut pieces of pre-printed paper
Image size: 12 @ approx. 500 x 400mm
Overall size: 2032 (H) x 1220 (W) x 30mm (D)
Exhibited: JK Russ, ‘Hard Sell Future’, Tauranga Art Gallery (Atrium) 2020; JK Russ, ‘Hard Sell Future’, PAULNACHE, 2022
Status: Available
Price: Contact the Gallery

Hard Sell Future (conversion)
Year created: 2022
Medium: Digital print
Dimensions: 118 x 71cm unframed
Limited edition: of 100
Label affixed: verso
Certificate of authenticity and numbered
Exhibited: JK Russ, ‘Hard Sell Future’, PAULNACHE, 2022
Status: Available

Price: NZD $150 ea. incl gst
(packaging and delivery within New Zealand)
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