Andrew Scott Ross
Andrew Scott Ross employs a variety of techniques and materials to show the linkages and similarities between civilizations throughout history, equalizing the human experience. While his pieces are often monochromatic and simplistic at first glance, Ross systematically layers images and sculptures to recreate history and thus create his own imaginative large-scale narratives. Ross is interested in how history is interpreted, recorded, and visualized, and how museums covey the past through artifacts. Through his own investigation of these avenues he creates paper-dioramas, drawings, and sculptures. Ross has spent over a decade creating an encyclopedic museum inspired by institutions that aim to bring human history to the public, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. Most recently Ross has been interested in mud for its sculptural qualities, and has been using it as glue for paper and drawing material. Ross transforms the material, but honors its importance in the human experience: we walk on mud, make cities and homes out of mud, and finally, can be buried in mud.
Scott has exhibited a number of solo shows at the Practice Gallery in Philadelphia, Box 13 in Houston, Gallery Protocol in Gainesville, Florida, The Guggenheim Museum's Peter Lewis Theater in …
Andrew Scott Ross employs a variety of techniques and materials to show the linkages and similarities between civilizations throughout history, equalizing the human experience. While his pieces are often monochromatic and simplistic at first glance, Ross systematically layers images and sculptures to recreate history and thus create his own imaginative large-scale narratives. Ross is interested in how history is interpreted, recorded, and visualized, and how museums covey the past through artifacts. Through his own investigation of these avenues he creates paper-dioramas, drawings, and sculptures. Ross has spent over a decade creating an encyclopedic museum inspired by institutions that aim to bring human history to the public, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. Most recently Ross has been interested in mud for its sculptural qualities, and has been using it as glue for paper and drawing material. Ross transforms the material, but honors its importance in the human experience: we walk on mud, make cities and homes out of mud, and finally, can be buried in mud.
Scott has exhibited a number of solo shows at the Practice Gallery in Philadelphia, Box 13 in Houston, Gallery Protocol in Gainesville, Florida, The Guggenheim Museum's Peter Lewis Theater in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and others. His work has been shown nationally in group exhibitions in Georgia, Virginia, New York, California, Illinois, and Tennessee and internationally in Switzerland, South Korea, France, Israel, and Australia.
