{"id":1545,"date":"2010-02-12T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/02\/portland_art_dealer_laura_russ\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:33:27","slug":"portland_art_dealer_laura_russ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/02\/portland_art_dealer_laura_russ.html","title":{"rendered":"Portland art dealer Laura Russo, dead at 66."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was 66. From the Oregonian&#8217;s D.K. Row:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSimply put: No one in the current art world championed local and Northwest artists as passionately and consistently as Russo, whose 23 year-old gallery is a de facto museum for regional artists, past and present: Lucinda Parker,  Jay Backstrand,  Fay Jones,  and the estates of Louis Bunce,  Robert Colescott,  Carl Morris  and her uncle, Michele Russo,  among others, are represented by the Russo business.<\/p>\n<p>But Russo was more than the seemingly shy yet quietly tough art dealer on Northwest 21st Avenue. She was an embodiment of a specific mid-century lineage whose spirit and heritage continues but whose active champions are now few.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will never see this kind of lifelong commitment again,&#8221; says Bruce Guenther,  a longtime Russo friend and chief curator at the Portland Art Museum.  &#8220;Laura was literally raised in this town. Her knowledge of the history of the cultural scene here, and her connections &#8212; social and personal &#8212; with the artists of this city can&#8217;t be matched.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/art\/index.ssf\/2010\/02\/obituary_art_dealer_laura_russ.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Row noted that Martha Lee, manager of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurarusso.com\/artists\/index.html\">Laura Russo<br \/>\nGallery<\/a>, will continue it. Its strengths have always been its painters. Highlights include: <\/p>\n<p>Betty Merken, <i>Torque<\/i>, monotype, 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/merb09torque11-09-37-13147.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/merb09torque11-09-37-13147.html','popup','width=512,height=338,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/merb09torque11-09-37-thumb-470x310-13147.jpg\" alt=\"merb09torque11-09-37.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"310\" width=\"470\" \/><\/a>Lucinda Parker, <font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial,helvetica,verdana\"><i>Outlook, December 1, 2007<\/i>&nbsp; gouache on paper 2007<br \/><\/font><\/font><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lucindaparkerhorizon.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/lucindaparkerhorizon.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"217\" width=\"475\" \/>Fay Jones, <i>Forget, Forgotten<\/i>, acrylic\/paper, 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fayjonesforget.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/fayjonesforget.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"511\" width=\"406\" \/><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial,helvetica,verdana\">Gregory Grenon <i>Me and My Ethereal Dress<\/i> oil on plexiglas<\/font><\/font> 2008<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gregorygrennonredhar.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/gregorygrennonredhar.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"494\" width=\"450\" \/>Michael Brophy, <i>Silence 2<\/i>, oil\/canvas 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"michaelbrophysilence.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/michaelbrophysilence.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"417\" width=\"490\" \/><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial,helvetica,verdana\">Francis Celentano <i>Cirque Variation 11&nbsp;<\/i> <\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial,helvetica,verdana\">acrylic on canvas<\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial,helvetica,verdana\">&nbsp; 2006 <br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"francescellentano.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/francescellentano.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"336\" width=\"489\" \/><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial,helvetica,verdana\">Jan Reaves <i>Dutchman&#8217;s Britches<\/i> <\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial,helvetica,verdana\">mixed media on flax paper<\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial,helvetica,verdana\">&nbsp; 2009<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"janreavesdutch.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/janreavesdutch.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"514\" width=\"386\" \/><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><font size=\"-1\" face=\"arial,helvetica,verdana\"> <\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, helvetica, verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was 66. From the Oregonian&#8217;s D.K. Row: Simply put: No one in the current art world championed local and Northwest artists as passionately and consistently as Russo, whose 23 year-old gallery is a de facto museum for regional artists, past and present: Lucinda Parker, Jay Backstrand, Fay Jones, and the estates of Louis Bunce, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}