Selected Works

New York Grenade #2 , 2018
Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 61 x 38 inch
ID #112299
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Keith Richards,
Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 49 x 63 inch
ID #112218
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Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 63 x 49 inch
ID #112217
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Bull Chieftain, 2010
Screen print with diamond dust on linen , 62 x 48 inch
ID #111300
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New York Grenade #15, 2018
Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 61 x 38 inch
ID #112215
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Clint Eastwood, 2010
Screen print with diamond dust on linen , 62 x 48 inch
ID #111299
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Ali,
Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 40 x 30 inch
ID #111549
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Marilyn Superstar, 2015
Silver and Black Hand Pulled Acrylic Enamel Screen Print with Diamond Dust on Linen , 26.5 x 18.5 inch
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Andy Warhol NYC , 2018
Acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust screen print on linen , 62 x 48 inch
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Marilyn Crying, 2008
Acrylic Paint and Enamel Screen Print and Diamond Dust on Linen , 62 x 48 inch
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Kate Moss (capri blue), 2008
Acrylic Paint and Enamel Screen Print and Diamond Dust on Linen , 37 x 29 inch
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Kate Moss (love pink), 2008
Acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust screen print on linen , 37 x 29 inch
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Bowie, 2008
Screen Print on Canvas Aqua and Gold , 62 x 48 inch
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Marilyn Crying, 2011
Magenta Hand Pulled Acrylic Enamel Screen Print & Diamond Dust on Linen , 70 x 54 inch
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Russell Young (born March 13, 1959) is a British-American artist. Young studied photography, film and graphic design at the Chester Art College and later attended Exeter Art College. He moved to London and gained recognition photographing the early live club shows in the late 1970s of Bauhaus, R.E.M. and the Smiths. During this period, he shot portraits of Morrissey, Björk, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, New Order, Diana Ross, Paul Newman. In 1986, he shot the ‘Faith’ sleeve for George Michael. In the following ten years he directed more than 100 music videos during the heyday of MTV.
In September 2000, while living in New York City, he began to concentrate on art and to devote himself to painting.
Young is best known for his enamel, screen-print paintings on linen, which explore celebrity, rock and roll, death and history. His earliest notable works as an artist are his “Pig Portraits”, life-size Police mug shots of celebrities screened onto canvas. First shown in 2003 they proved a critical success and were exhibited in London and the United States. He followed this with his Fame + Shame series that explored American life as seen through the eyes of a young man growing up in England. Russell Young is interested in the places where the glamour of the American dream meets the darkness of crime, addiction, and death. He explores this in series such as “Dirty Pretty Things” (2010), in which screen printed images of notoriously tragic stars Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain are sprinkled with diamond flakes.
Young emulates Andy Warhol’s printing style, applying saturated color over screen printed images in which subjects appear blown up and grainy, as though printed on newsprint.
His work has been shown nationally and internationally including at Scope/Basel, Switzerland SCOPE Art Show and Art Miami, Florida.
Russell Young is a hugely successful artist his clients including The Getty’s, President Barack Obama, David Hockney, Elizabeth Taylor, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Abby Rosen.
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EXHIBITIONS
ART FAIRS

PALM BEACH MODERN + CONTEMPORARY | 2020
Jan 9 - 12, 2020

CONTEXT Art Miami | 2019
Dec 3 - 8, 2019

Texas Contemporary | 2019
Oct 10 - 13, 2019

Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary | 2019
Jan 10 - 13, 2019

CONTEXT Art Miami | 2018
Dec 4 - 9, 2018

Texas Contemporary | 2018
Oct 4 - 7, 2018

Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary | 2018
Jan 11 - Mar 15, 2018

CONTEXT Art Miami | 2017
Dec 5 - 10, 2017

Affordable Art Fair NY | 2017
Sep 13 - 17, 2017

Art New York | 2017
May 3 - 7, 2017

Art Wynwood | 2017
Feb 16 - 20, 2017

Texas Contemporary | 2016
Sep 29 - Oct 2, 2016

Art Southampton | 2016
Jul 7 - 11, 2016

Art New York | 2016
May 3 - 8, 2016

Art Wynwood | 2016
Feb 11 - 15, 2016
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Russell Young, New York Grenade #2 , 2018
Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 61 x 38 inch

Russell Young, Keith Richards,
Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 49 x 63 inch

Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 63 x 49 inch

Russell Young, Bull Chieftain, 2010
Screen print with diamond dust on linen , 62 x 48 inch

Russell Young, New York Grenade #15, 2018
Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 61 x 38 inch

Russell Young, Clint Eastwood, 2010
Screen print with diamond dust on linen , 62 x 48 inch

Russell Young, Ali,
Screenprint on Linen w/ Diamond Dust , 40 x 30 inch

Russell Young, Marilyn Superstar, 2015
Silver and Black Hand Pulled Acrylic Enamel Screen Print with Diamond Dust on Linen , 26.5 x 18.5 inch

Russell Young, Andy Warhol NYC , 2018
Acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust screen print on linen , 62 x 48 inch

Russell Young, Marilyn Crying, 2008
Acrylic Paint and Enamel Screen Print and Diamond Dust on Linen , 62 x 48 inch

Russell Young, Kate Moss (capri blue), 2008
Acrylic Paint and Enamel Screen Print and Diamond Dust on Linen , 37 x 29 inch

Russell Young, Kate Moss (love pink), 2008
Acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust screen print on linen , 37 x 29 inch

Russell Young, Bowie, 2008
Screen Print on Canvas Aqua and Gold , 62 x 48 inch

Russell Young, Marilyn Crying, 2011
Magenta Hand Pulled Acrylic Enamel Screen Print & Diamond Dust on Linen , 70 x 54 inch