About the Gallery
With more than 20 years of gallery experience, Ian Russell works tirelessly to bring you art that inspires imagination and celebrates established and emerging artists. Since 2007, Ian Russell Gallery of Fine Art features greater than 40 local, national, and international artists making a home in historic downtown Prescott.
NEW ARTIST: David Groenjes
David Groenjes makes sculptures with junk that brings life to the lifeless. Sculpting with recycled materials is more than just conservation, the familiar parts and pieces of the sculpture create a connection with the viewer that would not be achieved by the subject alone. When put together properly, these colors, textures, and shapes form a relationship. It’s an incomplete puzzle that is finally finished with a long gaze, an inquisitive thought, and a big smile.
NEW ARTIST: Tai Taeoalii
Tai Taeoalii is a U.S. born Samoan/Dutch artist that grew up in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah during the 1980s. He’s stated that growing up bi-racial in that environment potentially led to his self-identification of an outcast. Afflicted with his cultural identity angst, he experienced some turbulent teenage years, but was fortunate to discover “the arts” were the remedy for expressing his frustrations. Through his artistic explorations he realized his auto-didactic ability, leading to experimentation with a variety of art-forms, including graffiti, tattoo, music & film and though he received numerous awards for his accomplishments in filmmaking, no medium has captured and retained his affections as strongly as drawing with a ballpoint pen, resulting in it being his central focus for most of his career as an artist.
New Artist: Ans Carnes
Ans is a figurative oil painter from Bavaria, Germany living in the mountains outside Prescott, Arizona. She paints bright and contemporary wildlife portraits that aim to capture movement and energy. Large, colorful hummingbirds in motion are her signature series.
‘I’m fascinated by hummingbirds because they’re so unique: they’re tiny, shiny and elegant, at the same time they are remarkably resilient and can be quite feisty. The combination of brilliant beauty and attitude makes them great models for uplifting paintings.
