Marilyn Crying Diptych, acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust on linen, 2011, courtesy of the artist

RUSSELL YOUNG

The Goss-Michael Foundation will premiere a new exhibition by prominent artist and photographer Russell Young. The exhibition will open to the public on March 7, 2012 and continue through April 1, 2012.

The Goss-Michael Foundation, a nonprofit organization, exists to educate, engage and inspire audiences by presenting exhibitions of British Contemporary art, provide vast resources, educational programs and scholarships to aspiring artists.

Earlier exhibitions have featured Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Sarah Lucas, Marc Quinn, Nigel Cooke and Michael Craig-Martin.

It was 20 years ago that British photographer Russell Young first lent his eye to celebrity culture. The assignment was photographing George Michael for the sleeve of an album called “Faith”. That job launched a career and soon Young was shooting musicians like Morrissey, Bjork, Springsteen, Dylan, REM, New Order, The Smiths, Diana Ross, Paul Newman and many other celebrities. The next natural step was directing music videos; Russell directed a hundred music videos during the heyday of MTV.

Ten years into his career, Young started painting, but his work remained private. Until 2003, when Young showed his first series – and first sold out show of paintings – called Pig Portraits, about the glamour in the dark side of crime, fame, sex, drugs, rock and roll.  On the heels of the first series came Fame + Shame, a visual celebration of the inevitable fallout of resulting chaos that comes from the three decades of cultural excess. Dirty Pretty Things one of the first diamond dust prints reflects Young’s love for light after growing up in the leaden skies of Northern England. One of the most famous images is his Marilyn Monroe in “Living Well is the Best Revenge.”

In 2010, Young endured an eight-day coma, pneumonia and ARDS: all induced by the H1N1 flu virus. He emerged from his near-death experience with severe memory loss and an incredibly weak body. During his long recovery he began to examine his life and his surroundings in a whole new way. Young left the hospital and had to learn to breath, write, draw, think and walk for the second time in his life. So enough, Young came again to paint. This time, freed from the domestication of the ‘picture world,’ as a feral boy, filled with a new, rough energy of violence, sex and power. With the Helter Skelter  series, Young learned to dance with this energy, crossing into the subconscious.

The GMF is proud to present this exhibition which will highlight Young’s most famous works including the above mentioned.

“My work is sort of soundtrack to my life, loves, experiences and influences. My method of working is to search, destroy and create. The images of this series have been collected from newspaper cuttings, e-bay, long correspondence with police departments throughout the world or even given by celebrities themselves. The idea to create “anti-celebrity” portraits was probably a reaction to my former career. However, they turned out to be even more beautiful and iconic. There is undeniably this attitude that is very real, in your face, a beauty that is hard to ignore. My art is a sort of soundtrack to my life, loves, experiences and influences. These would be my heroes that are missing from Art History.”

Russell Young has risen to become one of the most collected and sought after artists of our time. Celebrities and the most discriminating collectors like Abby Rosen, the Getty’s, Elizabeth Taylor, David Hockney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, David Bowie and President Barack Obama have added Russell’s works to their collections. His larger than life screenprint images from history and popular culture are compelling, daunting, and undeniable.

Russell is married to actress and presenter Finola Hughes, they have three young children Dylan, Cash and Sadie, Russell lives and works in New York and California.

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The Goss-Michael Foundation was founded by George Michael and Kenny Goss in June 2007. The Foundation offers the public a rotating schedule of exhibitions derived from Goss and Michael’s private collection of British contemporary art as well as other institutions. These exhibitions serve as a challenge to preconceived art notions and strive to set a new standard in artistic awareness by providing visitors with fresh and fascinating art experiences. Through these experiences, the Foundation hopes to generate new perspectives and conversations on the creative methods of contemporary artists. Locally, the Foundation is dedicated to contributing to Dallas’ thriving artistic community and enhancing the public’s familiarity and interaction with contemporary and emerging British artists. The Foundation fosters young artists in Dallas, and throughout Texas through numerous scholarships and art education programs.

The Goss-Michael Foundation Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:00am-6:00pm, Saturday 11:00am-4:00pm, Monday by appointment only. There is no charge to visit the Foundation.

A fundraising party and one-night-only showcase of the lifesaving work
UNICEF does for children around the world.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012

7:00 PM

Jenna Bush Hager

Honorary Chair

Joyce Goss

Chair

The Goss-Michael Foundation
1405 Turtle Creek Boulevard | Dallas, Texas 75207

unicefusa.org/experiencedallas

The U.S. Fund for UNICEF is excited to premiere The UNICEF Experience to the Dallas-Fort Worth area after its successful launch in Atlanta in May 2011. It is a one-of-a-kind event, designed to engage the community around UNICEF’s global work while raising funding to support its lifesaving programs. At the event, interactive exhibits will showcase our work and allow guests to experience what children in developing countries face and what UNICEF does to help.

- Carry water buckets as heavy as those carried by women and children in the developing world
- Contribute to a “wishing well” that will supply water pumps to countries most in need of safe water
- Shop for lifesaving Inspired Gifts including First Aid Kits and Protein Biscuits
- Write messages of hope for the world’s children

Cocktail Attire

540 W. 26th Street & 201 Chrystie Street, New York

For their first gallery exhibition in  New York since 2004. artistic duo Gilbert & George will take over both Lehmann Maupin’s Chelsea and Lower East Side locations to present their newest series London Pictures. The enormous works with titles such as Arrested, Attack, Bomb, Child Killer, Lover, Missing, Suicide, and Terror take their names from newspaper headlines and as  a whole portray the sorrow and humanity of city life. The exhibition will be presented in partnership with Sonnabend Gallery who will hold a concurrent exhibition of works from the London Pictures series.

Tracey Emin and Amy Winehouse_ What’s Love Got to Do with It_ » AICA USA

January 2012

…might be good

December 2011

Dallas Morning News

McEwen, former obit writer for the Daily Telegraph talked about his transforming that job into art by writing elaborate obits about well-know people who were still alive.
“If it’s in print, it’s real,” McEwen said. He liked the idea that people would wonder, for a split second, if Bill Clinton was really alive.

“These obits are melancholy but not morbid,” he said.

Over the years McEwen has become an expert at graphite, using the material in his sculptures of everyday things.

“Like an ATM … every thing I choose is some kind of object that is generally rooted and thread into our daily life. You know, everyone knows what an [AMEX] card looks like. You take something very familiar that we all know and make it yours,” McEwen said. “It makes you feel alive.”

McEwen was born in London in 1965 and attended Oxford in 1987 where he received his bachelor’s in English literature.

He then studied at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Cali.

He lives and works in New York City.

Stay tuned for more updates.

February 18, 2012

Student Art Contest,  titled HUMAN it -Arian, submissions are due by February 18, 2012. Winners will be announced March 3, 2012.

 Russell Young exhibition

March 7, 2012 – March 31, 2012

 Adam McEwen exhibition

April 13, 2012 – July 28, 2012