756 piece puzzle featuring an image of Russna Kaur's painting 'they are midway between the sun and the moon'
| Article number: | PU004 |
| Availability: | In stock |
756 pieces
Puzzle completed size: 16 x 30"
Box size: 9.5 x 7 x 1.5"
Russna Kaur (b. 1991, Toronto, ON; lives and works in Vancouver) graduated from the University of Waterloo earning a BA with a major in Fine Arts: Studio Specialization (2013) and the Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019) where she received a Master in Fine Arts. Kaur was awarded the Gathie Falk Visual Arts Scholarship, the University Women's Club of Vancouver Graduate Scholarship, the Audain Faculty of Art Graduate Teaching Fellowship and was shortlisted for the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship. Kaur has been an artist-‐in-‐residence at the Burrard Arts Foundation in Vancouver and the Centrum Emerging Artist Residency in Port Townsend, Washington. She is the recipient of the 2020 Takao Tanabe Painting Prize for emerging painters in British Columbia and the IDEA Art Award. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation. She is currently sessional faculty at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
For Kaur, abstract painting offers a space of possibility, play, and experimentation that is intimately entangled with the complexities of living—both its pleasures and adversities. Rather than approaching a painting as a fixed, singular object, Kaur employs a modular process: she arranges smaller paintings into large-‐scale compositions that grow, shrink, and shift. The bold and raucous color combinations Kaur uses reference the spectacle of gatherings and locales such as amusement parks, community festivals, ceremonies, and religious spaces—sites of overstimulation, observance, and illusion.
