Lisa Russell uses thick strokes of paint on small-scale canvases to create interlocking yet flexible arrangements. A range of rectangular shapes in delicate pastels and punchy jewel-toned colors coalesce as bodies in space. Smooth swipes of the palette knife generate tangible tension with ridges of buttery impasto, indications of brushwork, and passages of modulated color. Her surfaces feel like frosting on a cake as she creates these mini but mighty compositions.

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EDUCATION
MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston MA
BFA Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA

EXHIBITIONS
2022 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 Back to Nature, Attleboro Arts Museum, MA
Thick, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
New Editions: Printmaking Exhibition, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
Annual, Attleboro Arts Museum, MA
Purely Abstract, Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Small Works, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge MA
2-D Works, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence RI
2020 Art and Poetry, on-line Edition 55, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
On the Surface, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
Nature Themed, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
Prize Exhibition, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Jessica Roscio, Danforth Art Museum
Attleboro Member, Attleboro Art Museum, MA
Schein Fall Salon, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Drawing the Line, Dallas Metro Arts Contemporary, Plano, TX
Juror: Beth Welch, Louisiana Arts and Science Museum
2019 National Prize, CAA Kathryn Schultz, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2-D Exhibition, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
RI State of the Arts, URI Providence Campus, Providence, RI
MGNE Exhibition, RI Society Gallery, Slater Memorial Park, Pawtucket, RI
CAA Spectrum, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Schein Fall Salon, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2018 Here and Now, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nature, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro MA
Still-life: Captured Moments, University Place Gallery, Cambridge MA
Exhibition, Artist of the Year Award, University Place Gallery, Cambridge MA
5th Monotype/Monoprint, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA
CAA Fall Salon, Katheryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge MA
Pressing Matters, Monotype Guild, Lynn Arts, MA
2017 Catamount Film and Arts, Arts Connect Catamount Arts, Johnsbury, VT
Juror: Andrea Rosen, Curator Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT
Flower, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Small Wonders, Monotype Guild of New England , Hopkinton Center for the Art, Hopkinton, MA
2-D Works, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence RI
Mary Schein Fall Salon , Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge MA
Salon Des Refuses, Galleries at Kimball Jenkins Estate, Concord, NH
2016 Painterly Interplay: Perception and Reality, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Lisa Russell, Edwina Rissland, Roz Sommer
Blue, University Place Gallery, Cambridge MA
Fourth, Monotype Guild of NENG, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Winter Break, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Salon, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Red Biennial, CAA, Cambridge, MA
2015 14th National Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Caitilin Doherty, Curator and Deputy Director Curatorial Affairs,
Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan
CAA at 70 - Celebrating 70 years of Award Winning Art University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Frank Roselli, Soprafina Gallery, Jurors Award
Rhode Island State of the Arts, URI Providence Gallery, Providence, RI
Printed, Painted, Folded or Torn: Paper Work, Art Colony Cultural Center, Gloucester, MA
Off the Wall, Danforth Art Museum, Danforth, MA
Juror: Katherine French, Director Emerita Danforth Art Museum
Currents Works, Bannister Gallery, Providence, RI
2014 Reconfiguring Abstraction: Lisa Gabrielle Russell and Mary Bucci McCoy,
FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
Chiaroscuro, Research House for Asian Art, RHAA, Chicago, IL
Salon, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
See the Light, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Refused, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2013 Small Works, Invitational, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Juror: Katherine French, Museum Director
Intonations & Reverberations, Weir Art Center, Wilton, CT
12th National, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Toby Kamps, Curator Modern & Contemporary Art, Menil Collection
2012 Distillation: Lisa Russell/Mary Bucci McCoy, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Glue Paper Scissors, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Drawing the Line, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Frank Roselli, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
Off the Wall, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Juror: Cody Hartley, Director Gifts of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Scratching the Surface, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2011 Crossing Currents: Feminism Now, Hera Gallery, Providence, RI
Off the Wall, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Juror: Susan L. Stoops, Curator Contemporary Art, Worcester Art Museum
Community of Artists, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Green-Between Yellow and Blue, Jurors’ Award, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Juror: Kate McNamara Director, Boston University Art Gallery
2010 Off The Wall, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Juror: Jen Mergel, Curator Cont. Art, MFA and Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, ICA
Abstraction Now: New Trends in Abstraction, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA
NorthEast Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Cheryl Brutvan, Curator Contemporary Art Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
Red: It’s more than a color: metaphor, feeling, idea or hue, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Carl Belz, Director Emeritus, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
CSU Group Painting, Directions Gallery, Colorado State University, CO
2009 Northeast Prize, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: William Stover, Curator Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Passion for Still Life and Interiors, Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV
Flower Power, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2008 Opposites Attract, Arts Alliance Center, San Jacinto College, Houston, TX
Juror: William Stover, Curator Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Out of the Blue, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Small Works, Virginia Museum Fine Art, Richmond, VA
National Small Works, Arkell Museum, NY
Painting as Presence, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Der Zeitgenosse, Contemporary, Gallery of Art, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
2007 National Prize, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Thomas Lentz, Harvard Univ. Art Museums
Massachusetts Artists, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
Juror: Raphaela Platow, Curator, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
38th National, Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
Juror: Jan Ernst Adlmann, American Assoc. of Museums
Renegade Artists Group, Art Center of Estes Park, CO
2006 Small Works, Attleboro Museum, MA
Juror: Nancy Whipple Grinnell, Curator, Newport Art Museum, RI
National Woman’s, Impact Artist Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Winter, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2005 Blue, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Director Curatorial Affairs, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Between 1 and 1, Galerie Vclava Spaly Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Group of 12, Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO
Selected Works Permanent Collection, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2004 31st Annual, Mazur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Juror: Randall Griffey, Curator of American Art, Nelson Atkins Museum, Missouri
Off the Press, Faxon Art Gallery, Falmouth, MA
Dimensions, Associated Artists, Winston-Salem, NC
Drawing from Perception, Juror’s Award, Wright University Art Galleries, Dayton, OH
2003 International Juried, New Jersey Center for Visual Art
Juror: Anne Umland, Assistant Curator Painting, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Annual National, Gallery West, Alexandria, VA
Juror: Joann Moser, Senior Curator, National Museum American Art, Washington, DC
Passion, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: William Stover, Assistant Curator Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Fuller Art, 1st place award, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
2002 LaGrange National, Chattachoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
World in Black & White, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Fredericksburg VA
New Orleans National, Poydras Plaza Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Juror: Kaywin Feldman, Director Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Paintings: solo exhibition, Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI
Inward - 4-person, Invitational, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
2001 National, Phoenix Gallery, NYC
Juror: Feresheteh Daftari, Assistant Curator Paintings/Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Red, Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Harry Cooper, Associate Curator Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA
Small Works, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT
Juror: Richard Klein, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT
28th Annual, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Juror: Michael Klein, Curator Microsoft Art Collection
Small Works, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Unframed & Out of the Box, Brickbottem Gallery, Somerville, MA
Museum Annual, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Temporal Reflection, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol College, Bristol, MA
2000 Winter 2000, 2nd Place Award, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA
Sanctuary 2000, Rothschild Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
National Small Works, Gallery On the Green, Canton, CT
Juror: Judy Kim, Assistant Curator Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Valdosta Works on Paper XII, VSU Gallery, Valdosta University, GA
Juror: Les Reker, Director of Collections, Columbus Museum of Art, OH
National Prize, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juror: Carl Belz, Director Emeritus, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
Extending Perception, First Place Award, Hunger Artist Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1999 Painting With Oils, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
26th Annual, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Juror: John Bullard, Director New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
17th Annual, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
Juror: Beth Handler, Curator Painting, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
International, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts
Juror: Lisa Dennison, Chief Curator, Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Paperworks, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
Juror: Richard Field, Curator of Paintings, Drawings, Yale University Art Gallery
1998 Priva B. Gross, QCC Art Gallery, City University of NYC
Juror: Marilyn Kushner, Curator Prints & Drawings, Brooklyn Museum of Art
173 Exhibition, National Academy Museum, NYC
Drawings: solo exhibition, Galerie Petite, Halifax, MA
Recent Works, Fuller Museum Art, Studio Gallery, Brockton, MA
Drawn to Abstraction, Ellison Center for Arts, Duxbury, MA
1997 After Hours, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Recent Paintings: solo exhibition, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Faculty Exhibition, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Then & Now, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA
Twelve Inches Square, Fletcher/Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA
1996 Works On Paper VIII, VSU Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta State University, GA
Juror: Tim Close, Executive Director, Albany Museum of Art, GA
Print & Drawing, The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA
Juror: Janet Bishop, Andrew Mellon Curator, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Priva B. Gross, QCC Art Gallery, City University of NYC
Juror: Paul Cummings, Curator of Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Drawing Biennial, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
Juror: Thomas Armstrong, former director Whitney Museum American Art, NYC
ARC Drawing, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Painting & Drawing: solo exhibition, Fuller Museum of Art, Studio Gallery, Brockton, MA
1995 Landmarks, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Juror: Claire Bell, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NYC
American Drawing, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary
Juror: Thomas Armstrong, former director Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
76th Exhibition, Presidents’ Award, Museum of Fine Arts, Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA
Juror: Trevor Fairbrother, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Halpert Exhibition, Catherine Smith Gallery, Boone, NC
Annual, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
1994 Museum National, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
National Juried, Viridian Gallery, NYC
Juror: Diane Waldman, Senior Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Works on Paper, Karr Arts Center, New York Institute Technology, NY
Juror: Lisa Phillips, Curator Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
75th National, Museum of Fine Arts, Vincent Smith Art Museum
Juror: Lisa Messinger, Curator 20th Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Printwork, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY
Juror: David W. Kiehl, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Pacific States National, University of Hawai’i at Hilo
Carnegie Art Center / First Award in Painting, Carnegie Art Center, NYC
W & J Painting, Olin Fine Arts Gallery, Washington, PA
Provincetown Art Museum National, Provincetown Art Museum, MA
1993 Gallery Artists, Bravos Art Gallery, Georgetown, MA
Selected Faculty, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
National, Gallery 84, 50 West 57th Street, NYC
1992 New Directions, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY
Juror: Laura Rosenstock, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Impressions: Prints and Photography, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
753629 Group, Brickbottem Gallery, Somerville, MA
VWA/WCA, Zone Art Center, Springfield, MA
Bravos Gallery Invitational, Bravos Art Gallery, Georgetown, MA
4th International Print, Somerstown Gallery, Somers, NY
1991 Faber Birren Color, Stamford Fine Art, Stamford, CT
Juror: L. Rosenstock, Assistant Curator Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Painting & Drawing: solo exhibition, Lillian Immig Gallery, Boston, MA
Gallery Artists, Zulo Gallery, Medfield, MA
VAU Selected Review, Boston Visual Artist Union Gallery, Boston, MA
Five Painters Represent, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Art & Artists, Mugar Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
1990 Lennart Anderson Selects, First Street Gallery, NYC
International, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Four Person Exhibition, Ariel Gallery, NYC
1989 Faber Birren Color, Stamford Fine Art, Stamford, CT
Juror: Charlotta Kotik, Curator Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
Recent Works, Art Intentions Fine Art Gallery, Hanover, MA
Woodstock Gallery of Art, gallery representation, Woodstock, VT
Calgene Contemporary Fine Arts, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
1988 Small Works, Schoharie Arts Council, NY
Juror: Deborah Wye, Assistant Curator, Museum Of Modern Art, NYC
Faber Birren Color, Stamford Fine Art, Stamford, CT
Juror: Lisa Dennison, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Painting & Drawing: solo exhibition, Ticknor Space, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1987 Container, Bromfield Gallery, 36 Newbury St., Boston, MA
Recent Work: solo exhibition, Fuller Museum of Art, Studio Gallery, Brockton, MA

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 “Inside Art with Michael Rose”, Bannister Gallery, GoLocal Prov, RI
2020 Stay Inspired, Shelter in Place, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco CA
2019 Lightning Strikes II, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco CA
“Studio Visit”, Volume 44, Open Studios Press
Juror: Francine Weiss, Curator, Newport Art Museum
2018 Studio Visit, Volume 41&42, Open Studios Press
Juror: Lisa Crossman, Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum 
2012 “Distillation: The Purity of Paint”, The Providence Phoenix, Greg Cook, April 17.
“Artists Love to Paint, But Also Love the Paint Itself,” Providence Journal, Bill Van Siclen, April 12.
 2011 “Crossing Currents: Feminism Now”, The Providence Phoenix, Greg Cook, March 9. 
2010 “New Mastery at RIC”, The Providence Phoenix, Greg Cook, September 22.  
2009 “Allegorical Expressions”, The Providence Phoenix, Greg Cook, September 11. 
2002 “Variation On a Theme”, Providence Journal, Bill Van Siclen, March 2.
 2001 “BCC Brings Together Work of Four Female Artists”, Standard Times, David Boyce, December 13.
 1992 “Artists’ Views: The 756329 Group”, Critics Tip, The Boston Globe, Christine Temin, June 11.
“Woman’s Caucus to Show at Bravos Gallery”, Georgetown Record, September 24. 
1991 “Shows at Clark and Holy Cross Are Worth the Trip to Academia”, Worcester Guide, Krys Lloyd 
1989 “Quiet Art Exudes Intensity”, Boston Herald, Nancy Stapen, February 24. 
1988 “Color Back in Art’s Forefront”, The Advocate and Greenwich Times, Carol Everingham

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1998–present Professor of Fine Art, Painting, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
1992-98 Adjunct, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 
1992-93 Adjunct, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
 1996-98 Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art courses taught through Fuller Museum of Art 
1988-90 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
 1993-98 Adjunct, Simmons College, Boston, MA
 1984-98 Faculty, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA 
1987 Lincoln DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA