The painter Anne Russinof, who lived and worked in Brooklyn for many years, died early Sunday morning, January 26. According to friends, the cause of death was cancer. Originally from Chicago, Anne was a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an MFA from Pratt Institute. She was a resident at Yaddo and Millay Art Colonies, and a member of American Abstract Artists. Supporting herself as a designer for print and web, she also maintained a blog from 2013-20 called Gallery Travels. Her work can be seen on IdeelArt, 1stDibs, Artsy, and VanDeb Editions. Her recent shows include Galerie Zurcher during Armory Art Fair Week, ODETTA Gallery, the traveling show “Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA,” and “Sight Unseen,” curated by Hanne Tierney.
“My recent work features forms that have come away from the edge of the canvas to float on their own. They are objects both known and unknown to me, having occurred spontaneously. Freed from some former constriction, these gestures express themselves as flying entities, weightless and yet held in place by their respective atmospheres. My work has always been about gesture, and I paint wet on wet; these figures perhaps more literally allude to the body, and a need to take stand, as it were, in the swirling space around us.”
Watch a video of Anne making a painting here.