ALEXANDER ROSS | 14 DECEMBER 2023 - 3 FEBRUARY 2024 | Miles McEnery Gallery

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New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Alexander Ross’ 14 December 2023 - 3 February 2024.
ALEXANDER ROSS
Another Aspect of the Presentation, 2023
Colored pencil, watercolor, crayon, and graphite on paper
14 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches
37.5 x 36.2 cm
ALEXANDER ROSS
Everything is Nature, 2023
Colored pencil, watercolor, crayon, and graphite on paper
16 x 11 5/8 inches
40.6 x 29.5 cm
"Ross’s amalgamations sit uneasily, as if they are unsure of their purpose or their viability as structures. It is unclear, for example, whether the walls’ component parts were once pliable and plastic and have since hardened into a stable configuration, or if they retain a latent elasticity—and thus the potential to be reshaped and reconfigured, reanimated, even."

- Cassie Packard in "A Plastic Bucket in the Woods: On the Work of Alexander Ross"
ALEXANDER ROSS
Intelligence Restructuring, 2023
Colored pencil, watercolor, and graphite on paper
12 1/2 x 17 inches
31.8 x 43.2 cm
Alexander Ross Studio, Great Barrington, MA.
ALEXANDER ROSS
Interdepend, 2023
Colored pencil, watercolor, crayon, and graphite on paper
15 x 11 inches
38.1 x 27.9 cm

"In art as in life, the boundaries between organic and synthetic have degraded. In addition to recalling such objects, a number of the forms bear resemblance to topographic maps by dint of their subtle gradations of color and delicate contour lines. Embedded allusions to topography foreground ambiguities of scale. It is unclear whether it is mountains or microorganisms that are being mapped in these drawings. By extension, it is also unclear how to locate our bodies in relation to this unknown terrain, much less how to traverse it."

- Cassie Packard in "A Plastic Bucket in the Woods: On the Work of Alexander Ross"
- ALEXANDER ROSS
  Modeling the Physical, 2023
  Colored pencil, crayon, and graphite on paper
  22 1/8 x 18 1/4 inches
  56.2 x 46.4 cm
- ALEXANDER ROSS
  Potential Buds, 2023
  Colored pencil, watercolor, crayon, and graphite on paper
  15 x 11 inches
  38.1 x 27.9 cm
ALEXANDER ROSS
Reality Sponge, 2023
Colored pencil, watercolor, crayon, and graphite on paper
25 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches
64.1 x 56.5 cm
ALEXANDER ROSS
Robed in the Illusion, 2023
Colored pencil and watercolor on paper
12 5/8 x 11 inches
32.1 x 27.9 cm

"Take Robed in the Illusion (2023), in which a pallid pink, indentation-riddled wad that resembles chewed gum—rimmed by a crinkled red ribbon, perhaps sundered from an errant balloon—abuts a smooth mass of stony grey. At the edge of the frame, a volumetric Kelly-green lump recalls the brightly colored plastic holds—cheerfully self-conscious pseudomorphs—used in indoor rock-climbing."

- Cassie Packard in "A Plastic Bucket in the Woods: On the Work of Alexander Ross"
Everything is Nature (detail), 2023
ALEXANDER ROSS
Shift Wrung, 2023
Colored pencil, watercolor, crayon, and graphite on paper
15 x 11 inches
38.1 x 27.9 cm
ALEXANDER ROSS
Untitled, 2022
Oil on canvas
57 x 51 inches
144.8 x 129.5 cm
Alexander Ross in his studio, Great Barrington, MA.

Alexander Ross (b. 1960 in Denver, CO) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.

Ross’ work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY; FIENDISH PLOTS, Lincoln, NE; Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; Nolan Judin, Berlin, Germany; and Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, among others.

The artist has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions such as the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.

His work may be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; British Museum, London, United Kingdom; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.

He is the recipient of awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant; NewYork Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship; The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Ross lives and works in Great Barrington, MA.
- ALEXANDER ROSS
  Shift Wrung, 2023
  Colored pencil, watercolor, crayon, and graphite on paper
  15 x 11 inches
  38.1 x 27.9 cm
- ALEXANDER ROSS
  Untitled, 2022
  Oil on canvas
  57 x 51 inches
  144.8 x 129.5 cm

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