Conrad Ross ,

artist , painter/printmaker

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A  MEMORABLE  VISIT (click )

"Li River Anthology" is awaiting exhibition.

 

     photo collage on which paintings are based

 

This has been a 10 to 12 year project and it is ready for exhibition. There are eight 30" x 36" paintings in mixed media which are linked, flowing from one to the other.  A 25 foot wall is required to show this continuous lyric landscape.

 

I’ve been working with landscape since 1972 when I presented an “Ecological Construction” in an E.A.T. exhibit ( Experiments in Art and Technology) at the High Museum in Atlanta. And I’ve been working with china imagery since a Fulbright trip to China in the Summer of 1994 until 2007.  This collection of work documenting that exploration in paint and print and the environment is available for a museum showing.  I have called the exhibition “ China On My Mind," and now "A Memorable Visit" There are up to 40 / 45 works available for exibition.   The individual paintings for “Li River Anthology” (click on "A Memorable Visit " above and then each individual panel). Other supporting work is available on DVD.

I welcome invitations to exhibit  this landscape work especially “Li River Anthology” and/or the related work.

Conrad Ross /2011

NEW LANDSCAPES ( click )

artist statement


My imagery gets its significance from those efforts required to communicate and replicate, in the repeated image, and from those differences that emerge in the process of transfering information (living with it) (effort). These images have become, from their beginnings, new and imaginary, and I find them a never ending source of inspiration.

In graduate school and afterwards in the 1960's, I was involved in the development of the collagraph, a printmaking technique.

I have a fondness for the artist/printmaker's attempts to communicate, but it is to the landscape I have paid attention.

Since 1972 my work in painting, drawing, and printmaking has been caught up with this fascination for the land, with the genre of landscape and with the creation of imaginary vistas.

I make use of simple formal devices derived from the grid, and work with a traditional sense of pictorial composition, working with photographs and digital images.

I have come to call my methodology "two-part landscape" since two registers are involved in the creation of an image, a kind of dialogue.

 

June, 2011

 

EDUCATION

1953, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, B.F.A.in painting, magna cum laude.

1954, University of Chicago in philosophy, no degree.

1959, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, M.F.A. in printmaking.



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor Emeritus of Art, Auburn University,1997. I taught drawing, printmaking and sometimes painting from 1963.

A Drawing Intensive, Summer 2006, Auburn University.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011

Reconsidering Regionalism, Prints Inspired By The South, 1951-2011, curated by LynnBarstis Williams Katz, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art , Auburn University, Auburn Alabama, April 2 - July 23. (catalog available)

Society of American Graphic Artists 78th Members Exhibit,

Prince Street Gallery, New York, June 21- July 9.

2010

Li River Anthology and Related Works, Tennessee Valley Art Museum, Tuscumbia, Alabama - September 12 - October 22.

2009

The Art of Janice Koenig Ross and Conrad Ross, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy Alabama,November16 - January 2, 2010.

  

China On My Mind / Conrad Ross, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama, June 6 - September 17.

    

China On My Mind / Conrad Ross, Malone Gallery, Troy University, Troy, Alabama, January 12- February 19 . 

       

2007

Drawing on Alabama, Biggin Gallery, Department of Art Auburn University, Auburn Alabama.

Arts in Harmony '07, Elk River Area Arts Alliance National Juried Show, Minnesota (Best Out-of-State Artist Award)

9th Auburn Arts Accociation Annual Juried Art Exhibition (Special Merit Award)

2006

2006 Madison National Annual Juried Show, Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison Georgia (Merit Award)


39th Annual Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition, Montgomery Alabama (Best of Show Award)

Exhibition South,Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia, Alabama (Award of Merit)

8th Auburn Arts Accociation Annual Juried Art Exhibition (Merit Award)


2003

Southern Grahics Council Traveling Print Exhibition, 2003-2006


Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, "Through the Years - drawings, paintings and prints by Conrad & Janice Koenig Ross" (catalogue available)

 

2002
State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia, "The Print"

Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama,"Landscape:nearby and faraway - works on paper"

Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center,Alexandria,Virginia "Hand-pulled: The Contemporary Print",(Honorable Mention; Cash Award)

2001
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 28th Bradley National Print & Drawing exhibition

2000
Printmakers Gallery, Arkansas state University, State University, Arkansas, "The China Collés #1"

Stephen Gang Gallery, New York, N.Y., Society of American Graphic Artists 68th National Members Exhibition

College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Clemson
University, Clemson, South Carolina, Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibition, "Ecco Homo"

1999
Montgomery Museum of Fine arts, Weil Graphic Arts Study
Center, Montgomery, Alabama, "Conrad Ross: The China Collés"

PUBLICATIONS / Articles

"Perceptual Drawing, a Handbook for the Practitioner" by Conrad Ross, with a foreword by Andrew Rush, Director of The Drawing Studio of Tucson, Arizona, The Edwin Mellen Press, New York, 2011.

"Anima," The last folio in the Wycross series "WELBEING in The Twenty-First Century," Journal of the Print World, Vol. 32 No. 3 Summer 2009.

"Church Venue For The Artist/Printmaker" The Journal of the Mid America Print Council,Vol. 15 Number 1, Spring/Summer 2007. "Anima"

"The Art of Science", an essay on the Curtis Botanical Magazine Collection, Auburn University Libraries Highlights, Spring, 2000,Dale Foster,Jerome Ward,Conrad Ross.

"Mail Art and Printology", an essay written for the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, November 1999.

"Graduate School: emerging into the New Millennium", The Journal of the Mid America Print Council,Vol. 6 number 1, Spring/Summer 1998.

"Mono Production: A New Mail Art Show Based on Artist Response", The Journal for the Mid America Print Council, Vol.4 issue 1, Summer Fall 1996.

"Visiting China, A Fulbright Experience," Society of American Graphic Artist' Newsletter, Spring/Summer 1995. issue #1, pp. 12-13.

"Administrating the Education of Printmakers," Impressions, The Florida Printmakers Society, Summer Quarterly 1994, pp. 8-11.

"The Needs of the Next Generation, " the Journal of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Winter 1992/Spring 1993, pp. 2.3-2.6.

"The Monoprint in the 1990's," Society of American Graphic Artists, SAGALETTER, Fall 1991; and Southern Graphics Council, SGC Newsletter, Winter 1992.

"Dirctor's Statement", for catalogues, Auburn Works On Paper Exhibition, Auburn University, 1982-1987.

"The Monoprint and the Monotype: A case of semantics," Art Voices/South, Vol.2, No.4, pp. 89-91, Florida, July/August 1979.

"Visual Art as Language: A Necessity for General Education," unpublished article prepared from material presented in a seminar SY 522 "Knowledge or Not," Auburn University, Spring Quarter 1979.

"The Chalk Box - An Invention," Artists Proof the Annual of Prints and Printmaking, Vol. IX, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, January 1970.

 

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