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Born 1960 Denver, Colorado. Known for: Pop surreal form paintings and relief sculpture.
Following is The New York Times exhibition review, November 14, 2014 by Ken Johnson. Alexander Ross: 'Recent Terrestrials'. NOV. 13, 2014. Why do painters still paint? One reason is that it's an... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times exhibition review, November 14, 2014 by Ken Johnson. Alexander Ross: 'Recent Terrestrials'. NOV. 13, 2014. Why do painters still paint? One reason is that it's an efficient way to obsess over the insoluble mind-body problem. People have physical bodies and... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times exhibition review, November 14, 2014 by Ken Johnson. Alexander Ross: 'Recent Terrestrials'. NOV. 13, 2014. Why do painters still paint? One reason is that it's an efficient way to obsess over the insoluble mind-body problem. People have physical bodies and nonphysical consciousness, but no one knows exactly how they connect. Similarly, paintings are material objects and vehicles of immaterial imagination, and the relationship between those two aspects remains... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times exhibition review, November 14, 2014 by Ken Johnson. Alexander Ross: 'Recent Terrestrials'. NOV. 13, 2014. Why do painters still paint? One reason is that it's an efficient way to obsess over the insoluble mind-body problem. People have physical bodies and nonphysical consciousness, but no one knows exactly how they connect. Similarly, paintings are material objects and vehicles of immaterial imagination, and the relationship between those two aspects remains magnetically mysterious. Consider Alexander Ross's comically gross, Pop-surrealist paintings. The exhibition's most engaging works are pictures of monstrous, misshapen heads that look as if made from lumps of greasy, mostly green clay by an imaginative... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times exhibition review, November 14, 2014 by Ken Johnson. Alexander Ross: 'Recent Terrestrials'. NOV. 13, 2014. Why do painters still paint? One reason is that it's an efficient way to obsess over the insoluble mind-body problem. People have physical bodies and nonphysical consciousness, but no one knows exactly how they connect. Similarly, paintings are material objects and vehicles of immaterial imagination, and the relationship between those two aspects remains magnetically mysterious. Consider Alexander Ross's comically gross, Pop-surrealist paintings. The exhibition's most engaging works are pictures of monstrous, misshapen heads that look as if made from lumps of greasy, mostly green clay by an imaginative child. One that's depicted on a canvas nearly five feet square has its cranium peaked on one side and bulging... Read full biography
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Following is The New York Times exhibition review, November 14, 2014 by Ken Johnson.
Alexander Ross: 'Recent Terrestrials'
NOV. 13, 2014
Why do painters still paint? One reason is that it's an efficient way to obsess over the insoluble mind-body problem. People have physical bodies and nonphysical consciousness, but no one knows exactly how they connect. Similarly, paintings are material objects and vehicles of immaterial imagination, and the relationship between those two aspects remains magnetically mysterious.
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