"Snow" - DON RUSSELL and AMIR SHINGRAY - Winter 2008-09

From late fall 2008 to March 1, 2009, Don Russell and Amir Shingray joined forces in a two-person show at Craig Scott Gallery called "Snow." Don Russell came to Ontario from a childhood in Newfoundland that included camping in snow drifts that were as high as he was while Amir Shingray came to Ontario from eastern Sudan where snow was almost beyond imagination. Each in his own way has studied the (as it turns out, surprisingly modest) place of snowscapes in both the history of Canadian painting and in contemporary painting, and has learned from innovators from Franz Johnson to Jean-Paul Lemieux to David Milne to Peter Doig. For "Snow", each in his own way produced work for the show that sought to forge new paths in connecting art, winter and what it means to be Canadian.

Further information on each artist’s previous show at Craig Scott Gallery can be found at:

Don Russell's Elements of Memory show, September 2006

Amir Shingray's Khartoum show, March 2007