| Liana Russwurmwas born in 1966 in Elmira, Ontario. After graduating OCAD University in 2007 she spent four years recuperating from a work place accident, which eventually led her to purchase an old church in Alvinston Ontario where she could focus primarily on painting. Her work has been displayed in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Italy and Ireland. Her art is owned in public and private collections across Canada.
She is best known for her ongoing series Dime Museum, The paintings Dance of the Dead (2008, oil on panel), The Judy (2012, oil on panel) and Americana (2013, oil on panel). Americana won Peoples Choice Award at the Judith and Norman ALIX Gallery 2013 Juried Art Show. Her painting Beak (2013, encaustic on panel) from her series Façade won best in the show at the First Annual Petrolia Playhouse Juried Art Show.
White Orchid (2018, oil on panel) was chosen as a part of the International Biennial Portrait Competition in 2019 at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wausau, Wisconsin. This painting is the first painting in the series she is currently working on for an exhibition calledHomme,which with open at the Judith & Norman ALIX Art Gallery in the fall of 2022. |
