Since 1972 my work in painting, drawing, and printmaking has been caught up in my fascination with the land, with the genre of landscape and with the creation of imaginary vistas. I have dealt with site, the environment, and composition. Since 1984 my subject matter has come from travels both afar (Italy, Europe, China) and from nearby locations at home in Auburn, Alabama. 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, as well as drawing on the spot. I find significance in those efforts required to replicate, in the repeated image, and in those differences that emerge in the process of transfering information which generates new and often imaginary images. I call this methodology "two-part landscape" since two registers are involved in the creation of an image. This approach makes use of ideas of "time" and "the grid" and helps in considering complex visual material by isolating pictorial elements, examining and combining close-up and distant views, and in transferring information. With this approach to landscape I work spontaneously and with deliberation. June, 2004

		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 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) 2005 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 "Church Venue For The Artist/Printmaker" The Journal of the Mid America Print Council,Vol. 15 Number 1, Spring/Summer 2007. "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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