Amanda Ross-Ho in New Photography 2010 - MoMA

Amanda Ross-Ho

AmandaRoss-Ho, an American mixed media artist, incorporates an entire range of materials, from cut-canvas pieces and textiles to large objects and collages into her versatile artworks. Her unique creations can be seen as a series of gestures in which objects and pictures are placed next to each other in order to create complex compositions.

The artist works in many different media, such as painting, photography, and installation, always trying to engage her viewers and make them examine hidden connections between her ideas and imagery placed within an unusual visual world.

Amanda ross Amanda Ross-Ho is an interdisciplinary artist and a professor of sculpture at the University of California, Irvine. Ross-Ho lives in Los Angeles. Be the first to know about new exhibitions, artist updates, as well as books and more. Sign up for our newsletter below. Amanda Ross-Ho.

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Early Biography of Amanda Ross-Ho : From Textile Design to Fine Art

Amanda Ross-Ho was born in in Chicago, Illinois. Both of her parents were artists and taught her how to paint, which influenced a lot young Amanda’s predilection for visual self-expression. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in and eight years later, in , an MFA from the University of Southern California.

During her graduate studies, she began incorporating the studio process as a part of her own style. After Ross-Ho has graduated from SAIC, she lived in Chicago for seven years, where she was engaged in many full-time jobs, most important one being a textile designer.

  • Amanda Ross-Ho - MoMA
  • Amanda Ross-Ho in New Photography 2010 - MoMA

    • While working as a designer, she started creating her own style and exhibiting locally. Early in her career, Ross-Ho shared a studio with a vibrant community of 10 young artists, including famous Sterling Ruby, in the Hazard Park quarter of Los Angeles. Later on, she moved her studio into a former retail distribution center in the southern part of LA downtown.

    She shares this new studio with her partner, Erik Frydenborg, who also creates installations, sculptures, paintings, and prints.

    After Ross-Ho has graduated from SAIC and she lived in Chicago for seven years before she started participating in local exhibitions


    Versatile Art Projects in Acrylic Paint, Collage and Installation

    Amanda Ross-Ho combines various media - acrylic painting, drawing, installation, black and white photography and she also incorporates found objects.

    Amanda ross ho portrait photography Amanda Ross-Ho, Peacock Wall, Archival light jet print mounted and framed on sintra, incised sheetrock, wood, screws, cat water bowl. Amanda Ross-Ho, Sieve, Canvas, gold hoop earings, thread, chrocheted doily, single earings, monogram pins, vintage iron-on, wooden thumbtack, gold-plated pendant, rhinestone earing, ceramic pinch pots, aluminum thumbtacks, latex, acrylic and xerox transfer on cut canvas drop cloth x x 16 cm. Their recognition and domestic symbolism becomes estranged, placed out of context through size and materiality. Construing kitsch with the elegance of minimalism, Ross-Ho presents the sentimentality of tchotchke as emotive voids, displacing homey intimacy to the realm of objective contemplation. Amanda Ross-Ho, Sieve and 4 details , Canvas, gold hoop earrings, thread, crocheted doily, single earring, monogram pins, vintage iron-on, wooden thumbtack, goldplated pendant, rhinestone earring, ceramic pinch pots, aluminium thumbtacks, latex, acrylic and xerox transfer on cut canvas d x

    When it comes to photography, the artist captures images from a variety of cultural locations, which represent sites of both artistic collaborations and personal significance. In this way, Ross-Ho connects disparate objects and experiences through her artistic endeavors. Her work is inspired primarily by the clutter of daily existence and routines along with the negative space created by the things that are normally overlooked.

    [2] Ross-Ho uncovers the subtle beauty of everyday world and its enticing anomalies - while doing so, she utilizes materials as diverse as newspaper articles, self-help manuals, and various instruction booklets.

    Amanda ross ho artist Installation view at Parcours at Art Basel, Through close observation, she identifies and brings into form connective tissues between personal and eternal conditions. She builds formal syntax comprised of objects, images, and performative gestures mined from personal and collective phenomena, which aim to inscribe meaning through poetic systems of circuitry and taxonomy. Utilizing conflicting sensibilities of the forensic, hyperbolic, and theatrical, her work aims to function as a sensitive instrument: tuned to carefully observe, record, transcribe and translate the landscapes of our made and lived in surroundings. Amanda Ross-Ho was born in Chicago in

    This awkward mix of materials symbolizes cultural intersections and the very spirit of contemporary lifestyle. For the California Biennial, Ross-Ho transported the actual walls of her LA studio into the Orange County Museum of Art and she has re-created this installation for the exhibit held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, in After the success of this installation, she started producing series of small-scale individual creations on pieces of sheetrock.

    These new collages were similar to her original source of inspiration, which were the real studio walls. Amanda Ross-Ho has also participated in the Whitney Biennial exhibitions and she held a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, called Irreconcilable Differences. This show, which took place in , was a distinctive gallery installation inspired by a comedy about a child filing for divorce from her parents.

    The installation consisted of images scanned from various manuals and photography textbooks, mixed with close-up portraits Ross-Ho’s parents taken during the s. The artist’s first public art project entitled The Character and Shape of Illuminated Things was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in and This unique outdoors project explores the relationship between photography and the act of seeing.

    New Photography 2010

    Amanda Ross-Ho born is an artist based in Los Angeles that works in painting , drawing , sculpture , installation , photography and uses found objects. She participated in the Whitney Biennial. Ross-Ho was born in Chicago. Ross [ 2 ] and Ruyell Ho [ 3 ] — were both working as artists throughout her childhood. After graduation from SAIC, she stayed in Chicago for seven years, working full-time at various jobs—including one as a textile designer—all the while making artwork and exhibiting locally.

    Within this framework, the artist reinvestigates the role of photographic processes in the everyday events.

    Amanda Ross-Ho uncovers the subtle beauty of everyday life and its enticing anomalies


    Exploring the Anatomy of Creative Processes

    Ross-Ho’s installations, photographs, and collages explore the everyday ephemera as well as the anatomy and cycles of creative processes.[3]Los Angeles-based artist appropriates imagery she encounters in her daily life in order to construct mixed-media pieces which simulate coincidences or intersections typical for the urban lifestyle of the 21st century.

    All of her pieces have a layered meaning, which is the result of merging the universal and the personal view. Even though her artworks often have autobiographical or seemingly nostalgic references, their ultimate goal is to create a wider context that many viewers can identify with.

    Amanda Ross-Ho lives and works in Los Angeles.

    References:

      1. Smith, Roberta () Art in Review: Amanda Ross-Ho, NY Times [August 31, ]
      2. Myers, Holly () The Iocus of Amanda-Ho’s Art, Los Angeles Times [August 31, ]
      3. Morse, R.

        Amanda Ross-Ho, Prestel,

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