Dan Gluibizzi
This month, Russo Lee Gallery debuts a year-long exhibition program with The Office, in which we will host a series of month-long exhibitions of work by invited, unrepresented artists in the region curated by gallery art consultant, Eva Lake. In celebrating our 30th year in business, we are utilizing a central office space which was originally used by Laura Russo, the Gallery’s founder, as an exhibit space to broaden the arts conversation in the community, reflecting the nature of a vibrant, fluid and fast-paced art world.
Dan Gluibizzi will be the first artist in The Office, presenting Friends and Strangers. Gluibizzi, while based in Portland, Oregon, has an international reputation. He has illustrated for the New York Times and has received press from Wired, Juxtapoz, White Wall Magazine, The Observer, Print Magazine, Beautiful Decay and New American Paintings. His watercolors concentrate on the human form, face and condition, often culled from the amateur/selfie - sourced Internet. Voyeuristic yet somehow innocent, they have a warm and playful feel.
If you post a nude selfie on the Internet, Dan Gluibizzi might find it and turn it into art. Commenting on the endless abyss of images we consume, along with the ]ubiquitous nature of selfies, he explores amateur adult sites and nudist blogs for the perfect image for his collages, which he uses as source material to create quietly powerful, anonymous figurative watercolors.