Doug Russell
Assistant Professor, Drawing
B.F.A., Columbia College, 1990.

M.A., University of Iowa, 1995.

M.F.A., University of Iowa, 1996.


drussell@uwyo.edu • 307.766.3295 • FA 116

Doug Russell, Assistant Professor of Drawing at the University of Wyoming, has recently been included in the "31st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition" at Bradley University; "Evidence and Residues: An Investigation of Contemporary Drawing" at Indiana State University; and "Drawing No Conclusions" at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Michigan.

He has also shown at The Morgan Gallery, The Late Show Gallery, The Michael Cross Gallery, and Hudson Home in Kansas City; at The Chait Galleries Downtown in Iowa City; and at Baseline Gallery and Workshop in St. Louis, as well as numerous other spaces nationally and internationally.

From 1999 to 2005 he lived in Kansas City teaching at Central Missouri State University, Maple Woods Community College, and the Kansas City Art Institute. Previous to 1999 he held a two-year teaching position at Uludag University in Bursa, Turkey. He holds an MFA in printmaking/drawing from the University of Iowa and a BFA in painting/drawing from Columbia College.

Shifting between drawing, painting and three-dimensional constructions his work explores the tensions of transparency and opacity, rootedness and mobility, freedom and entanglement, surface and depth, and legibility and the erosion of form. 

Empire Drawing #1

17" x 14", Graphite, Prismacolor pencil, Oil Pastel on Mylar, 2008.

Empire Drawing #2

17" x 14", Graphite, Prismacolor pencil, Oil Pastel on Mylar, 2008.

Empire #1

36" x 40", Acrylic, graphite, Prismacolor pencil on panel, 2008.

Empire #2

36" x 40", Acrylic, graphite, Prismacolor pencil on panel, 2008.

Another Nature #7

30" x 22", Black Prismacolor Pencil on Paper, 2007.
 

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