Biography

Born in Trentola Ducenta (CE) in 1953, Elisabetta Russo realizes with various techniques and on various topics mostly abstract and informal compositions. Neapolitan by birth, for several years she moved to Sicily, where she exercises his art as a painterwithexcellent professional successes, obtaining prizes and awards from the most qualified critics.

His personal research starts from color, as a predominant element, to move then on to the material as a deepening of an unexplored aspect of the medium of expression.

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Restoration "Abadir" of Catania and attended several courses of the "International Academy of Graphics of Venice". At the beginning of her exhibition she has participated in important expo and exhibitions of contemporary and international art with the collaboration of the Catania Federiciana Academy. She then continued her journey with the support of the Gallery "Signature of Author" of Giarre and finally she made personal and collective exhibitions through the Katàne Association of Catania, where some works are now on permanent exhibition. Her works are also in private collections. She is also present in several yearbooks and art dictionaries. It has been quoted and reported by regional newspapers and magazines: "Prospettive", "Centonove", "ll Gazzettino", "Il corriere del sud", "Giornale di Sicilia", "Sicilia sera", "La Sicilia", "Vivere" "," I Vespri ". In 2006 she made illustrations for the poetic collection "The front of the words" by Francesca Musumeci (Kritios Editions, Catania). Among others, art critics have written about her: Michele Palminteri, Fortunato Orazio Signorello, Massimo Catalano, Mario Meozzi and Alfredo Pasolino. She has been a member of the Accademia Federiciana (Catania) and is listed in the Archives of Visual Arts of the same institution. In 2010 some works were published in the Monograph "Elisabetta Russo - Between abstractionism and informal" by Fortunato Orazio Signorello ed. Kritios, filed at OPAC SBN (central institute for the single catalog of Italian libraries and for bibliographic information)