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Conrad Ross , artist , painter/printmaker |
CHINA ON MY MIND(click here)
I recently finished eight 30” x 36” paintings, all tightly related, called
“Li River Anthology.”
This has been a 10 to 12 year project. Since the paintings in mixed media are linked, flowing from one to the other, a 25 foot wall is required to show them.
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. A showing documenting that exploration in paint and print is what I propose for a museum showing. I call the exhibit “ China On My Mind, Painter/Printmaker Conrad Ross.” There are up to 40 / 45 works available for the exibition. A DVD showing the individual paintings for “Li River Anthology” (click on China On My Mind, above) and the other supporting works is available.
I welcome invitations to exhibit especially “Li River Anthology” and/or the related work.
Conrad Ross /2009
artist statement
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. Since 1972 my work in painting, drawing, and printmaking has been caught up also with a fascination for the land, with the genre of landscape and with the creation of imaginary vistas. I make use of 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.
June, 2009
EDUCATION A Drawing Intensive, Summer 2006, Auburn University.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2010 Li River Anthology and Related Works, Tennessee Valley Art Association, 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)
Exhibition South,Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tuscumbia, Alabama (Award of Merit) 8th Auburn Arts Accociation Annual Juried Art Exhibition (Merit Award)
Southern Grahics Council Traveling Print Exhibition, 2003-2006
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