PAST EXHIBITION

Alexander Ross: Recent Drawings

March 22, 2008—April 19, 2008

David Nolan Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new drawings by Alexander Ross that move between representation and abstraction to explore issues of looking, as enhanced and distorted with the aid of machines. During his residency in Giverny in 2000, Ross found himself working along the left banks of the Seine River in the rural countryside that inspired Monet and could be considered the heart of Impressionism. Ross’s lifelong fascination with the emerging sciences flourished here, as he began borrowing from life outside his window to inform his palette and process. He set up a microscope on his drafting table to study his samples, treating the canvas as a scientist would: to record, manipulate, speculate, ponder, measure and store highly maintained visual data. But the resulting hyperclear articulations are not to be trusted. Their lushness has the feel of a squeaky, synthetic virtual reality.

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