Jessie Summa Russo

Jessie Summa Russo is a third-generation artist in West Seattle, as well as the current Director of Gallery 110.

Raised in Somerville, Massachusetts, she received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College with a Studio Arts concentration and studied illustration at Massachusetts College of Art & Design. Hired to create digital imagery for a living, Russo never lost the compulsion to make art with her hands.

She began a consistent practice in 2015 with a series of collages on vinyl records that made use of her substantial—some might say excessive—collection of paper ephemera. Recently, oil and cold wax finger-painted organic shapes and abstract gel plate monotypes have dominated her mixed media works.

She continues to refine her mixed media layer techniques on wood that reveal and obscure, surprising viewers with fragments that only appear upon closer inspection.