Design student Russ Connell's steel art featured in Dallas galleries

Russ Connell (Photo by Evans Caglage)Russ Connell plans to graduate in December, and his art is already grabbing attention for using emotional and quirky themes in the industrial medium of steel and welding.

His work has been shown at several Dallas art galleries and has been featured in The Dallas Morning News. For one piece, he used a series of gunshots through an inflated steel heart. Other works feature wildlife, animals and his own imaginary creatures.

Connell, a metalsmithing and jewelry design major, eventually would like to create larger sculptures.

"I'd like to push the scale as far as I can," he says. "It's always exciting to make things larger than myself."

 

 

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