Johnnie Winona Ross Exhibition
Stephen Haller Gallery
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Stephen Haller Gallery will present an exhibition of luminous new paintings by American artist Johnnie Winona Ross. The
exhibition will coincide with two museum exhibitions: TRACES: JOHNNIE WINONA ROSS at the NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART, Santa Fe and JOHNNIE WINONA ROSS at the HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART, Taos, NM.
In the Washington Post, critic Stephen Parks characterized Ross’s work in this way: “From a distance his canvases appear to be simple, minimal constructions of horizontal stripes with hints of vertical color in the background. Up close the paintings are seen to be extraordinarily beautiful and complex objects that induce a humming meditative state.”
Ross grounds his work in the inspiration of the desert of the American Southwest, and borrows techniques from ancient Native American sources, melding them with a distinctly sophisticated and utterly contemporary vision. His use of the Native American technique of burnishing pigment and minerals with a potter’s stone to create a hard surface with a visually warm sheen creates an effect reminiscent of the softening of marble steps by decades of use.
Curator Laura Addison, of the New Mexico Museum of Art writes of Ross’s “strategy of distilling a landscape to its immaterial elements” and goes on to state, “his paintings make visible the immaterial and the intangible, such as centeredness, rhythm, sound, heat, breeze.”
[Image: "Johnnie Winona Ross studio 2010 with works in progress"]
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Schedule
from September 10, 2010 to October 16, 2010