Lecture: Alexander Ross, 11/9/2009 7:30pm - 8:30pm at San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

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Lecture: Alexander Ross

11/9/2009 7:30pm - 8:30pm at San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

Likening the making of art to playing games, deciphering puzzles, and doing experiments, Alexander Ross purposefully limits his painterly concerns to as few colors and materials as possible in order to open up serendipitous areas of exploration. Starting his process off by constructing elaborate models from Plasticine, he then photographs the models and bases his paintings, as though photo-realistically, on the photos. A recurring feature of his style is the enmeshing of seeming antitheses: classic themes from the history of art converge with popular science-fiction illustration, the abstract converges with the figurative, and the specific converges with the general. Recent venues at which he has had solo exhibitions include David Nolan Gallery and Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City, Nolan Judin in Berlin, Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles, and Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami (Florida, USA). A recipient of a Lewis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in Painting and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

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