Cozette Russell

Born 1978, Exeter, NH, lives in New Hampshire 

Working in photography, video, installation, and text, Cozette Russell explores ways photographic space can expand into sculptural objects. At the intersection of disability and art, Russell investigates the aesthetics of care and care as access through an embodied approach that uses tactile interventions. Russell’s work has shown at various galleries and museums including SFMOMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, NADA Curated, Harvard University, and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, where she is a national member. 

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Untitled (summer studio/winter studio) 
2023, 47 x 34 x 6 inches. 
framed archival print photograph (no glass), bricks, and twine
Edition of 2 + 2 AP

“Letters occupy an anticipatory temporality. The letter writer extrapolates the future of their recipient, looking ahead from a present that is already past. The letter’s uncanny entwinement of temporal frames is insistent in Cozette Russell’s Untitled (summer studio/winter studio) (2023), a photographic installation in which two stacks
of two bricks support a collaged photo print. Visible in the print is an identical doubled image of a woman, blurred by motion, who appears to fall, twice, and each time to catch herself on hands and knees. Drawing on the essential latency of photography—which parallels that of the epistolary form—Russell’s work is like a hall of mirrors that divides and deepens time, reaching simultaneously into a past twice removed through layers of film and into a possibility proposed by the bricks and their gravity.“

- Nicole Kaack, Curator, “Write me letters” you write to me
A.I.R. Gallery, June 2024





                                                                                                                                                                 A.I.R. Gallery, photo credit: Matthew Sherman