Project Description
Russ Cox
Cox’s oil paintings evoke the sensory feeling associated with place, nature and experience. Works evolve from a process of applying layer upon layer with multiple glazes to create movement, translucency and depth. These works are deeply meditative, becoming more complex as they unfold.
Artist’s Statement:
I endeavor to create paintings that evoke a sensory feeling associated with place, nature and experience. Paintings evolve from a process of successive applications of line and color created with broad intuitive gestural movements, then applying layer upon layer of multiple glazes to create subtlety, translucency and depth. A painting becomes completed for me if it reaches a point of evoking an experiential feeling, with multiple viewers connecting with their own individualized interpretation.
As a process painter, one who mixes spontaneity of expression with reflective development of each painting, my work broadly falls within three themes of often overlapping but abstract experience: works that evoke a memory sense of experience of the natural environment; works that evoke a connection to personal action and movement; works that splash with color, texture and line, evoking a reactive feeling followed by visual movement throughout the work. Generally, I prefer to work on larger pieces so the viewer feels she is walking into the painting, with details that unfold the closer she gets. This is achieved by using a combination of old techniques of glazing and layering while also incorporating contemporary staining, field, splatter, hard edge, and bold color techniques. The bubbling found in many paintings is one that I’ve developed over the last decade, vacillating from a central to subtle element. I paint and rework each piece until the work resonates a feeling of a place, experience or wonder that I appreciate.
Available Work
Russ Cox ‘Daybreak’ Oil on Canvas 48″x60″ $7200
Russ Cox ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Oil on Canvas 48″x60″ $7200
Russ Cox ‘Casco Bay Rockweed’ Oil on Canvas with Handcrafted Spalted Wood 59” x 98” $9500
Russ Cox ‘Tendril’ Oil on Canvas with Handcrafted Thomas Moser Cherry Wood 94” x 98” $18,500
Russ Cox ‘Atlantic Garden’ Oil on Canvas with Handcrafted Spalted Wood 69” x 100” $9500
Russ Cox ‘Upper Field’ Oil on Canvas 96” x 36” $9500
Russ Cox ‘Lower Field’ Oil on Canvas 60” x 36” $6500
Russ Cox ‘Spring Light’ Oil on Canvas 40” x 40” $4900
Russ Cox ‘Lupin’ Oil on Canvas 36” x 48” $5800
Russ Cox ‘The Bluff’ Oil on Canvas 24” x 36” $3200
Russ Cox ‘Reid State Park’ Oil on Canvas 48” x 30” $4200
Russ Cox ‘Alatus’ Oil on Canvas 60” x 36” $6500
Russ Cox ‘All The Places You’ll Go’ Oil on Canvas with Handcrafted Spalted Wood 39” x 51” $7200
Russ Cox ‘Asian Pen Untitled’ Oil on Canvas 30”x40” $3200
Russ Cox ‘Pollen Tracks’ Oil on Canvas 36” x 48” $5200
Russ Cox ‘Marseille’ Oil on Canvas 48”x72” $9975
Russ Cox ‘Day Off’ Oil on Canvas 40”x60” $7150
Russ Cox ‘Genèse’ Oil on Canvas 48”x72” $8925
Russ Cox ‘Thaw’ Oil on Canvas 76”x 54” (Diptych) $13,125
Russ Cox ‘Party On The Wharf’ Oil on Canvas Scroll 48”x80” $6550
Russ Cox ‘Uncovered Oil on Canvas 48”x36” $4410
Russ Cox ‘Clouds’ Oil on Canvas 40”x60” $5460
Russ Cox Breakthrough 48”x72” Oil on Canvas $8200
Russ Cox ‘Untitled’ Oil on Canvas 36″x60″ $4965
Russ Cox ‘Untitled (River)’ Oil on Canvas 48”x60” $7200
Russ Cox Water Rush Prototype One 36”x60” Oil on Canvas $9040
Russ Cox Rockweed 134”x84” Oil on Canvas $32,000
Russ Cox “Change of Season” Oil on Canvas 72″ x 48″ $10,500
Russ Cox ‘Autumn Rhythm” Oil on Canvas 36”x60” $4650
Russ Cox Blue Rain 36”x36” oil on canvas $2310
Russ Cox ‘Surf’ Triptych 72×144″ Oil on Canvas $30,000
Russ Cox ‘Casco Bay Islands’ Oil on Canvas 36″x24″ $2,950
Russ Cox ‘Whitewater 1’ 96×48″ Oil on Canvas $13,250
Russ Cox ‘Rhapsody’ Oil on Canvas 60”x40 $5460
Past Work
Russ Cox Resurgam Triptych 40”x140” Oil on Canvas SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Resurgam In Winter’ Triptych Oil on Canvas 88”x30” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Summer Meadow’ Oil on Canvas Scroll 60”x 74” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Day Break on Casco Bay’ Oil on Canvas 54”x38” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Seaweed Dance’ Oil on Canvas Scroll 48”x 74” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Ocean Mist’ Oil on Canvas 54”x36” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Graffitti’ Oil on Canvas 60″x48″ SOLD
Russ Cox Festival Oil and China Marker on Canvas 72”x48”x2” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Meadow’ Oil on Canvas 36”x48” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Morning Breaking’ Oil on Canvas 30”x40” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Sunspot’ Oil on Canvas 48”x60” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Dance’ Oil on Canvas 48”x60” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Sea Urchins in the Sunlight’ Oil on Canvas Scroll 60”x 74” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘At the Beach’ Oil on Canvas 48″x60″ SOLD
Russ Cox Rockweed III 48”x60” Oil on Canvas SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Rhythm I’ Oil on Panel 16” x 20” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Mouth Of Maquoit’ Oil on Canvas 72”x36” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Whitewater Surfacing’ Oil on Canvas 40”x60” SOLD
Russ Cox Morning Run on the Eastern Prom 48”x48” oil on canvas SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Untitled (Marsh)’ Oil on Canvas 48”x60” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Yellow Rhythm’ Oil on Canvas 18″x24″ SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Bacchanal’ Oil on Canvas 17″x21″ SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Below the Surface’ Oil on Canvas 60″x48″ SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Edge’ 36×72″ Oil on Canvas SOLD
Russ Cox Fish Feed 36”x96” Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Finale’ Oil on Canvas 48”x60”SOLD
Russ Cox Stained Glass Triptych 4’x13′ Oil on Canvas SOLD
Russ Cox Seventeen Flowers 36”x96” oil on canvas SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Rhythm II’ Oil on Panel 16” x 20” SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Spring Meadow’36×60″ Oil on Canvas SOLD
Russ Cox Tango Oil on Canvas 72”x48”x2” Framed SOLD
Russ Cox Morning Mist 48”x48” Oil on Canvas SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Japanese Maple’ Oil on Canvas 48″x60″ SOLD
Russ Cox Marine Blue 48”x36” Oil on Canvas SOLD
Russ Cox ‘Vernal Pool’ Oil on Canvas 27.5″x41.5″ Private Collection
Russ Cox ‘Shoreline’ 48×60″ Oil on Canvas SOLD
Russ Cox Dans le Salon 48”x48” Oil on Canvas $2310
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Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions:
2021 – 511 Congress Street, “Portland Artists”, featured artist, Portland, ME
2020 – New England Ocean Cluster, “Atlantic”, solo show (Covid delay to May), Portland, ME
2020 – Casco Bay Artisans, “New Works”, solo show, Portland, ME
2019 – New England Ocean Cluster, “The Bay”, resident artist show, Portland, ME
2019 – Ethan Allen, “Water Riot”, solo show, Portland, ME
2019 – Casco Bay Artisans, “Summer Show”, group show, Portland, ME
2018 – West Gallery, River Arts, “Summer Abstracts”, solo show, Damariscotta, ME
2018 – Casco Bay Artisans, “Expressions”, featured artist, Portland, ME
2017 – University Gallery, University of New England, “Maine Expressions”, solo show, Biddeford, ME
2017 – Maine College of Art, “Create”, group show, Portland, ME
2017 – River Arts, “Artist’s Choice”, Damariscotta, ME
2016 – Casco Bay Artisans, “Foliage”, solo show, Portland, ME
2016 – Maine College of Art, “Create” and “Collect”, concurrent group shows, Portland, ME
2016 – River Arts, “Maine Blues” and “Artist’s Choice”, separate group shows, Damariscotta, ME
2015 – Maine College of Art, “Create” and “Collect”, group shows, Portland, ME
2015 – Casco Bay Artisans, “Summertime”, group show, Portland, ME
Continuing Education:
Maine College of Art, Continuing Studies Program from 2013 – Present, Portland, ME
Florence Academy of Art, Studio Program, 2015, Florence, Italy
