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Alexander Ross
(American, born in Denver, Colorado, 1960)
Untitled, 2007
Colored pencil on paper
30 1/4 x 22 3/4 inches (768 x 578 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Whitney B. Armstrong and on the Young Associates Fund for Twentieth-Century Acquisitions; 2008.40
Photography by Kevin Noble, courtesy of David Nolan Gallery, NY.
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Ross’s fanciful images, derived from microscopic visions of cellular organisms, merge references to Surrealism, Philip Guston, and science fiction. In this drawing the close observation of nature generates an imaginary landscape made of strange, interlocking forms. Combining volume and flatness, nature and artifice, and abstraction and representation, Ross proposes a contemporary vision of nature at once playful and disquieting.

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