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RUSSELL T. GORDON (1936 - 2013)FINE FELLOW FEDORAMIXED MEDIA; SIGNED AND TITLED TO LABEL VERSO39.75" x 31.75" - 101 x 80.6 cm.Provenance:Waddington and Gorce, Montreal, QCNote:RUSSELL T. GORDON (1936 - 2013)"I believe that images, like words, are in themselves meaningless, and are resurrected in context. For me, abstract images are redefined in new settings and materials, thereby changing their significance and, at the same time, reminding us of their meaning in other situations. This is not indeterminacy or equivocation: Each situation is a solid and concrete reality that changes Across time and experience."- Russell T. Gordon -Russell T. Gordon was born in 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he received his BaChelor of Fine Arts at Temple University with a basketball scholarship. He received a double Masters Degree (Arts and Fine Arts) in 1967 from the University of Wisconsin. He initially taught fine arts at the University of Utah, and the University of California, Berkeley, before settling in Montreal, Quebec in 1974. Gordon taught painting and drawing in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University until his retirement in 1998. Gordon exhibited extensively throughout North America and Europe, and his works are found in major public, corporate and private collections in Canada and the United States. He passed away in Montreal in 2013.Selected Corporate, Private and Public CollectionsAchenbach Foundation, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco AT&T, Chicago British Museum, London, England Carnegie Corporation of New York Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio Claridge Collection, Montreal, QC Concordia University, Montreal, QC Fasken, Martineau, Dumoulin of Montreal Helsingborgs Museum, Denmark Honolulu Academy of Art, Hawaii Miami-Dade Public Library, FL Mills College, Oakland, CA Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN Musee d Art Contemporain, ( Lavalin Collection), Montreal, QC Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA New Jersey State Museum, Trenton North Western University Museum, Evanston, IL Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phila. PA Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL Rosewald Collection, Philadelphia, PA Sacramento State College, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CASmithsonian American Art Museum The Library of Congress Smithsonian Institution The University of Utah Museum of Fine Arts Walker Art Center, Minnesota Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans Selected Solo Exhibitions2010Over Easy - Métaphores en series, Stewart Hall Gallery, Pointe Claire, QCOver Easy - Métaphores en series, McClure Gallery, Westmount, QC2006 Wooster Art Space, N.Y. Monotypes: Carrere Court Series 2003 215 West 125th Street, Exhibition Program 2000 Theo Waddington Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Han Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC 1998 Han Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC 1992 Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, QC 1991 Musée Régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, QC 1990 Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, QC 1989 Alan Short Gallery, Works on Paper, Stockton, CA 1988 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL, (Lakeside Studio Gallery) 1987 Miami-Dade Public Library, Russell T. Gordon: Prints and Drawings, Miami, FLTheo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, QC Joy Moos Gallery, Russell T. Gordon: Works on Paper and Canvas, Miami, FL1986 Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, QC The Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1985 Theo Waddington Gallery, Toronto, ON oy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL 1983 Miami-Dade Public Library, Works on Paper, Miami, FL University of Utah, Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, QC 1982 Miami-Dade Public Library, Russell Gordon: Works on Paper, Miami, FL Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles and traveling Theo Waddington Gallery, New York, New York 1980 Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, QC (Paintings) Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, QC (Drawings) 1979 Theo Waddington Gallery, Toronto, ON 1978 Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1977 Braunstein Gallery, New York, New York Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1976 Theo Waddington Gallery, Montreal, QC 1975 Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1974 Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1973 Gallery Alliance, Copenhagen, Denmark 1972 På Trudstolpegard, Kunst, Hallen, Sakskøbing, Denmark Ars Studio, Arhus, Denmark 1969 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Selected Group Exhibitions2005 Utah Museum of Art, African American Masters, Salt Lake City 2004 Wooster Art Space, New York, New York 1995 Kraushaar Galleries, Summer Group Show, New York, New York Louis Stern Fine Arts, American Color, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Lakeside Studio at Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois 1990 Isobel Neal Gallery, Mixed Media on Paper, Chicago, Illinois 1988 Musée Régional de Rimouski, The Artist in the Garden, Rimouski, QC Theo Waddington Gallery, Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois 1987 Weissman Gallery, Concordia University, Recent Acquisitions, Montreal QC Monterey Peninsula Museum, The Artist and the Myth, Monterey, CA Chicago New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago, Illinois 1986 Lakeside Studio, Drawings and Ceramics, Lakeside, Michigan Museum of Science and Industry, Black Creativity, Chicago, Illinois 1985 Navy Pier, Chicago International Art Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois Triangle Artist Workshop, Pine Plains, New York Museum of Science and Industry, Black Creativity, Chicago, Illinois 1984 Theo Waddington Gallery, Paper as a Medium, Toronto, ON Bank of America Plaza, Selections from the Bank of America Corporation Art Collection, New York, New York 1982 Hastings Gallery of Art, Selected Works by Five Twentieth Century American Artists, University of California, San Francisco, CA Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Afro-American Abstraction, Los Angeles CA 1981 Miami-Dade Public Library, Carnival of Critters, Miami, FL 1980 Palo Alto Cultural Canter, The Controlled Gesture: An Aspect of Bay Area Abstraction, Palo Alto, CA 1975 Oakland Museum, Bay Area Artists Exhibition, Oakland, CA Mills College Art Gallery, Selections from the American Print Collection, Oakland CA 1974 First biennale Internationale of Madrid Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA San Franciso Museum of Art, M.I.X. Graphics I: Prints, San Francisco, CA Mills College Art Gallery, Art Faculty Show, Oakland CA 1973 Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, Extraordinary Realities, New York, New York Ars Studio, Young Artist from Around the World 2, Copenhagen, Denmark Cincinnati Art Museum, San Francisco Bay Area Printmakers, Cincinnati, Ohio 1971 University of Utah Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah Civic Arts Print Gallery, CA Society of Printmakers, Walnut creek, CA San Francisco Museum of Art, Poetic Fantasies, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, Black American Artists, New York, New York 1970 Oakland Printmakers Invitational, Oakland, CA Selected Awards and Grants2006 Rockefeller Foundation: residency at Bellagio, ItalySelected LinksRussell T. GordonInterview with Russell T. Gordon