Biography:
Annette Rusin is a visual artist located in DUMBO, Brooklyn a neighborhood between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. Her artistic practice includes sculpture, installation, and works on paper. She has used unorthodox drawing tools and manipulated wall surface layers to explore ritual, vanity and conformity in the man-made, ready-made world.
She began her career in the arts at Rhode Island School of Design where she recieved a Bachelor of Architecture and spent a year studying architecture in Rome. After RISD, she relocated to Philadelphia to work for Robert Venturi. Rusin spent approximately 6 years working for various architectural firms, notably James Stewart Polshek in New York City.
As a young architect, Rusin discovered the small transfer drawings of Paul Klee and became fascinated by the irregular, fibrous line that resulted from his process. This, combined with her love of drawing and drafting, inspired her to refocus on her work as a visual artist. "As strange as it might seem, that line and how it was made - is fundamental to my work as a visual artist. It's an element that I repeatedly return to in my artwork," she says. After obtaining her MFA in painting at Hunter College in New York City, Rusin went on to develop a hybrid pintmaking/transfer drawing technique on vellum paper that earned her residencies at MacDowell and Millay, among other prizes, grants, and awards.
Annette Rusin
has exhibited nationally and had her work acquired by private and corporate collections. She was awarded a 2009-2010 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship and had work on view in the A.I.R. Gallery Biennial curated by Lilly Wei in March 2009. She was invited to exhibit twenty works on paper from her Cosmetic Dreams Series at the International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale in Incheon, Korea, August 2009. Rusin had her A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship solo show, Road Work at A.I.R. Gallery during the month of September 2010 and created Road Work Interventions to coincide with the 2010 DUMBO Arts Festival. She will be featuring a large-scale work on paper at the 2011 Sofia International Paper Biennial taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria May 2011. Rusin will be organizing and curating Privacy Please! a juried, exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery with guest curator Erin Riley-Lopez to take place during November 2011.
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