Russell T. Gordon: Over Easy
Maurice Forget
McClure Gallery (September 2010)
84 pp 35 col. ill. 11 x 9 in softcover
978-0-9865933-0-7
$24.95 Can. $28.95 U.S. (20 euros)
Russell T. Gordon is an African-American artist who has lived and worked in Montreal for over thirty years. This first monograph offers a critical survey covering work from the early figurative paintings of the 70s with their California funk aesthetic to today’s elegant large abstractions. Gordon’s work collides full on with the formative influence of jazz and mirrors the improvisational approach of Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. The publication includes an essay and an interview exploring the influences and life experiences that shaped Gordon’s approach to artmaking. In English and French.
