FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2023
FAME: Russell Young brings his acclaimed international art series to the southern hemisphere for the first time
The artist debuts his iconic, diamond-dusted silk screen paintings with Gullotti Galleries in Perth, Australia
Perth, AUS – British-American artist Russell Young brings his international art series FAME to Australia for the first time, exhibiting at Gullotti Galleries in Perth, on view November 16 – December 15, 2023.
Young is best known for his large scale silk screen paintings examining the cultural phenomena of fame and the promise (and souring) of the American Dream.
Young’s acclaimed silk screen series FAME has a rich history. It was first exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai. The series then headed to London, where it made history exhibiting in the windows of luxury department store Harrods. Young is the first and only artist since Harrods was founded in 1849 to be given this honor. The series was then exhibited inside Harrods as well as a 100 painting exhibition at Halcyon Gallery. Since then, the series has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto.
Now, for the first time, FAME makes its premiere in the southern hemisphere with Young’s first ever solo exhibition in Australia at Gullotti Galleries. These silk screen paintings depict icons in one-of-a-kind hand-mixed pigments with tactile layers of diamond dust, many of which are hand-pulled on a silk screen printing press that once belonged to the late Andy Warhol, revealing Young as a “voluntary keeper and interpreter of some of the most interesting and subversive images ever recorded.”
Young will be in attendance for the VIP opening premiere in Perth on November 16, 2023.
“FAME is an interwoven story of an American timeline and a cast of iconic characters who embody a cultural golden age.”
– Russell Young
Details
FAME
On view: November 16 – December 15, 2023.
VIP Opening Premiere
Thursday, November 16, 2023
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Gullotti Galleries
28 Napoleon Street, Cottesloe
About Russell Young
Russell Young, born in 1959 in Yorkshire, is a British-American artist best known for his large scale silk screen paintings examining cultural icons, the nature of fame, and the souring of the American Dream.
His earliest breakthrough was his photography of George Michael for the sleeve of the album Faith in 1987. Young photographed many music stars throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including Morrissey, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, REM, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Diana Ross, Paul Newman, Björk, and many others. He went on to shoot over 100 music videos for leading artists during MTV’s height in the 1990s, which brought him to the United States.
Young eventually moved to California, where he began his current practice with his sold-out show Pig Portraits in Los Angeles in 2003. The many series that have followed, including his ongoing Heroes + Heroines and WEST, demonstrate his visceral, analog processes and signature use of diamond dust. He has exhibited across the world in numerous galleries alongside masterclass artists, institutions, and cultural figures. These include museum exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Cornell Art Museum, Polk Museum of Art, and the Goss-Michael Foundation. His genesis NFT debuted and sold on SuperRare in 2022.
Young’s work is included in many prominent private and institutional collections including those of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, David Bowie, Drake, Angelina Jolie, David Hockney, Kayne West, Brad Pitt, and others, as well as The Getty Collection in Los Angeles and The White House Collection in Washington, D.C. His works have crossed the auction block at all of the world’s major auction houses, including Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips.
He currently lives in Southern California.
Website: www.russellyoung.com
Instagram: @bankrobbercalifornia
Twitter: @_russellyoung