About

Since the 1990s, Alexander Ross has explored his own postmodern visual language, a characteristic fusion of surrealism, photorealism, and biology. His elusive and expansive biomorphic assemblages resemble the cellular, vegetal, alien, aquatic, and topographical, bypassing obvious classification.

With his latest series of works on paper, Ross skillfully layers colored pencil, crayon, graphite, and watercolor to build up soft yet vividly colored amorphous forms that oscillate between micro and macro. Each work begins as a clay sculpture and, through a process of photographing, manipulating …