Cozette Russell
Cozette Russell’s practice uses a hybrid of forms, including film, video, sculpture, photography, and text. Drawn to the poetic and ideas of transformation, she explores layered themes across motherhood, disability, adaptation, and memory. Engaging her body with acts of repetition and a gaze toward early feminist performance and video art, she investigates the body as material, the body as expression. Making work through process-driven experimentation, she uses banal utilitarian materials such as string, nails, bricks, and paper to engage a tactile intuition communicated through gestures of physical contact. Cozette Russell lives in New Hampshire and makes site-specific work on her family’s land and in her barn studio. Her writing and photography were recently included in A.I.R Gallery’s 15th Biennial as part of the inaugural issue of Peer Review, and she contributed to the publication and exhibition, Huq: I seek no favor, 50 Artists Respond to the Abortion Ban. Her short films have screened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Her film, 'X’ and the Woman, is in the permanent collection at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
