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Discover and collect art from Russell Young’s iconic Diamond Dust series and more.
Russell Young, for example, has used diamond dust to create large-scale, glittering screen prints that often revisit iconic moments and figures from American history and popular culture. His work resonates with a sense of nostalgia while highlighting the enduring fascination with fame and celebrity, a theme that is accentuated by the luxurious ...
Russell Young (born March 13, 1959) is a British-American artist. Young studied photography, film and graphic design at the Chester Art College and later attended Exeter Art College. He moved to London and gained recognition photographing the early live club shows in the late 1970s of Bauhaus, R.E.M. and the Smiths.
This contemporary British artist is in the lineage of the artists of the American Pop Art movement of the 1970s and 1980s. His style, his technique and the choice of his subjects are a direct reference to the production of these years.
Young began to use diamond dust in 2007, pressing crystals into paintings he called Dirty Pretty Things. He was drawn to the opulence of the light shimmering off the multi-faceted glass, the famous faces lost in abstract flickers of light only to re-emerge.
In his following series, Dirty Pretty Things, he began to incorporate his popular use of diamond dust. The glam shots of cultural icons, glittering in pulverized diamonds, embodied the lusts and aspirations of their eras.
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Russell Young is a British- American artist and photographer collected worldwide and famous for his mesmerizing iconic images shimmering with diamond dust.
