ZOOM LINK
Join Curator Mike Calway-Fagen, and Education Consultant, Josiah Golson, in the Studio with Andrew Ross July 31 from 5 - 6:30 PM. Andrew will be a participating artist in the exhibition Combover, which will run in our 2021 exhibition season. Mike, Josiah, and Andrew will be continuing their conversation about how his works reflect and draw out the themes in Combover:
Combover brief:
The main point here is, despite your earnestness and best efforts, you’re not fooling anyone. But we’ll play along. The social contract must be upheld, I guess. Is this a moment where we both recognize the awkward mortality that reveals itself in each of our bodies and the frail attempts at defying death? Do these subtle gestures of subterfuge make folks more human, or are they less due to their having augmented reality?
About Andrew:
Andrew Ross merges a broad range of art historical and cultural references into fragmentary constructions of archetypal figures and everyday objects with attention to the metaphoric associations they elicit. Grounded in procedural premises that reject practical constraint, his practice compiles rather than concludes, amassing scenes and images that oscillate in interpretations as speculative fiction and cartoonish satire. Joining traditional sculpture, assemblage, and digital imaging, Ross creates works that act as interjections on our aesthetic landscape, conjuring narratives about a collective desire for fantasy to collide with reality.
Ross (b. 1989, Miami, FL) received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2011, where he was awarded the Gelman Trust Award for Excellence in Sculpture. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. He’s been a resident and/or fellow of programs including The Triangle Arts Association, The Drawing Center's Open Sessions, LMCC's Swing Space, The Macedonia Institute, and The Bruce High Quality Foundation. Ross has exhibited at The Drawing Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, Center for the Humanities at CUNY, White Columns, and Greene Naftali. He has staged solo exhibitions at Signal, American Medium, Clima Gallery, and False Flag. Ross’ work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Cultured, Flash Art, Mousse, and the Brooklyn Rail.
http://www.andrewross.info/