Enjoy The Mystery

Visual Art – New York - Brooklyn

Northern Michigan native, Anna Russell is the artist behind Enjoy the Mystery. Her work often blends bought and found materials. While creating mixed media crafts often including polymer clay, 3d canvas wall art, and fabric dying Russell explores melting boundaries between art and crafting. What does art need to be considered art? Enjoy the Mystery crafts force the viewer to reconsider how they interact with daily objects, as well as their own limitations of reality. Russell explores the binary between vulnerability and censorship and what it means to inhabit a body that is often controversial. Russell channels personal experience into each piece while melting boundaries between art for art's sake and the role of the artist as a witness. Russell holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Business and Organizational Leadership with a minor in Studio Art from Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University. Russell currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and is pursuing a graduate degree in Art Market Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology.