Alexander Ross Exhibition
David Nolan Gallery
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David Nolan Gallery presents Alexander Ross: Recent Paintings. An entirely new body of work, Recent Paintings will feature eight paintings and a selection of works in oil on paper.
Alexander Ross lives and works in New York, where his studio serves as a sort of laboratory where the natural and artistic worlds collide. His process is experimental, but essentially simple. Each work begins with a model in plasticene, taking inspiration from specimens found in nature such as plants and rocks. After photographing the models and manipulating the resulting images in Photoshop, he then paints these newly altered and digitized versions of reality.
Recently, Ross has become inspired by the tradition of painting en plein air (“in the open air”). This new interest has expanded his practice in the studio to evoke the spontaneity and romance of recreating nature as if he were standing in the midst of it outdoors. For the first time, realistic landscapes appear in his paintings as though we are experiencing the images from an airplane or an overlooking mountain. The color of the skies in his hyper-real worlds fades from a deep to light blue as we approach the horizon, just as it does in reality. Yet, this combined effect embraces notions of virtuality, spanning from contemporary images present in Google Maps to the iconic skies found in the works of surrealist painters. We never stray far from artifice and the ersatz in Ross’s paintings; the light and colors of these works on view in Recent Paintings are more vibrant but still have the flat graphic quality that is the artist’s signature.
[Image: Alexander Ross "Untitled" (2011) oil on canvas, 96 x 80 in.]
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Schedule
from May 06, 2011 to June 25, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-06 from 18:00 to 20:00