Russell Craig Acquisition by Pérez Art Museum Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has acquired Russell Craig’s oustanding painting 0015 (2026).

Presented as part of Craig’s solo exhibition Redemption at Clubhouse Gallery, this work belongs to his ongoing Prison Door painting series—monumental compositions that reconstruct the architecture and psychology of incarceration through layered materials, abstraction, and portraiture. 

In 0015, Craig advances a highly sophisticated material language, combining acrylic, leather strips, horse hide, and layered fabric with coarse pumice gel and heavy adhesive to construct a surface that is both tactile and structural. These elements operate beyond form: woven passages reference systems of pattern and repetition, while dense accumulations of material produce a sense of pressure, duration, and containment. 

At the center, a portrait of Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez—an internationally acclaimed artist and fellow of Right of Return, co-founded by Craig with the support of Agnes Gund—emerges through a narrow aperture recalling the food slots of prison doors, where visibility becomes a controlled and highly charged formal device.

Through its layered construction and material intensity, 0015 demonstrates Craig’s ability to transform complex processes of accumulation, constraint, and labor into a rigorous visual system—one that asserts both presence and control within a tightly structured field.

We are grateful to PAMM and its supporters for recognizing the significance of this work and for providing it with a lasting institutional home.

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