Russ Lamb at The American Center for Artists

Make no mistake, Russ Lamb's work is not the sweet and cloying stuff that issues from the representational school of Western art. You'll find little of the warm and fuzzy to cling to in Lamb's imagery. As an ardent outdoorsman and conservationist, Russ understands that nature is beautiful but indifferent, that nature is chaos, that nature is life and death itself. When hunting game there comes that crucial moment when the arrow is knocked, when the hammer is cocked, when the fly rod is swept back into the initial arc of the backcast. Intent gives way to action; the conscious part of the brain surrenders to the purely reptilian. Between the thought-the plan to deliver the kill shot or the unerring cast-and its actual execution, there falls a shadow. It's that incomprehensible shadow which inhabits and informs each and every piece Russ Lamb creates.

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Russ Lamb lives his work. He cherishes the outdoors, and takes inspriation from where he's been. A consumate sportsman and dedicated conservationist, his art is deep, reflective and eclectic, but always grounded in his impressions and experiences of the outdoors. He drew inspiration for his early work from his days as a commercial fisherman, and today his work runs the gamut from mixed media prints and paintings to large steel sculptures of animals. He created his first works by inking real fish and making one-of-a-kind prints of them on various media. Today his materials may include house paint, varnishes, pencil, steel or wood. And his pieces hang in the corporate offices of Fortune 500 companies and in private collections and businesses all over the country.

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