PAST EXHIBITION

Carol Ross: Paintings 1988-90

May 1, 2008—June 14, 2008

The abstract becomes tangible in eight large-scale canvases from the years when Carol Ross, this most uncompromising of New York artists, made the transition from painting structures of delicate geometry to sculpting objects of weight and substance. The methodical variations and chromatic juxtapositions of Ross’s multi-panel paintings reinvent the late-modernist tradition of the shaped canvas. Probing the atmospheric capacities of color to transform space, Ross creates rhythmic sequences of geometric forms that layered, project into space as if in relief. With Ross’s subsequent three-dimensional works in mind, the paintings can be taken for a series of exquisitely refined blueprints. Besides presenting works of intrinsic beauty, this exhibition is conceived to explore the visual sources which lead to the monumental, stainless steel sculptures of Hortus Conclusus, Carol Ross’s recent installation at Spazio Thetis, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice, Italy (June, 2007 – April, 2008).

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