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Eross@artic.edu
Each available piece: $500 including archival framing under glass and shipping (within continental U.S.)
E. W. ROSS lives and works in Chicago where he has been teaching and directing programs at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1980, the year he received his MFA from SAIC. He is currently Dean of Continuing Studies and Special Programs at SAIC and is also the Program Director for Ox-Bow, a summer school of art and artists′ residency in Saugatuck, Michigan.
The last public showing of his work was a one-person exhibit at The Chicago Cultural Center in the fall of 2003 where he showed 53 small drawings.
“Throughout the exhibit Ross′s mix of Durer-like precision and airy watercolor creates a fine tension between the world as it is and flights of fancy, and he often makes incongruous man-made elements---like a tiny traffic light hanging among trees–seem signs of ego in places where it doesn′t belong.”
“Each painting holds a world of detail and mystery. A frog stands on a tree branch holding his heart in a rapture of ecstasy or agony, a rickety wheelchair sits empty deep in the woods, a crutch leans against a tree, a pig′s head sits in a pail. These subjects are weird, sinister sometimes and unsettling funny at other times.”
“If our relationship to nature is a central theme of Ross′ landscapes, then our human relationships are at the core of his collages. In “Father and Sons”, the poignant complications of these royal relationships seem little different than our own. Three vignettes are depicted in which father (King) and sons (Jacks) miss or ignore each other′s gazes. Jack and Queen fare better in “Diagonal Pieces with 7 Eyes”, successfully making eye contact amidst an array of dizzying patterns. Should you feel like something of a voyeur while staring at the couple, take a second look: several disembodied eyes are staring back at you. E. W. Ross shows us that the act of looking can be a highly complex and very intriguing matter.”
Copyright 2005 by E. W. Ross
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