Dark Reflections: Russell Craig

Philadelphia-based artist Russell Craig is co-founder of Right of Return, USA, the first national fellowship dedicated to supporting formerly incarcerated artists. Craig’s artwork was prominently featured in the critically-acclaimed Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at MoMA PS1. His first solo exhibition, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, was featured at Magic Gardens (Philadelphia). Craig has been a featured speaker on multiple panels about criminal justice reform, and he recently served as keynote speaker at the 10th Annual Student Engagement Lecture Series at Manhattan College. Dark Reflections at Malin Gallery is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Craig’s work is in several prominent private collections and in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

Writer, editor, and critic Jessica Holmes’s writing features regularly in BOMB, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail, where she also edits the ArTonic column. Other bylines include Vanity Fair Spain, The Magazine Antiques, and The Woman’s Art Journal. Recent exhibition catalogue contributions include Judith Braun: My Pleasure (Opalka Gallery, Russell Sage College), Ellsworth Ausby: Somewhere in Space, Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s (Eric Firestone Gallery) and Markus Linnenbrink: THEREARESPACESTHATBREATHE (Museum of New Art, Portsmouth). Previously she served as Editor-in-Chief of the arts publication Degree Critical. For nearly two decades, she worked for the Calder Foundation, including 6 years as its Deputy Director.