1. Clifford Ross was born on October 15,1952 and is an American artist who has worked in multiple forms of media, including sculpture, painting, photography and video.
16 Facts About Clifford Ross
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In 2002, in order to photograph Mount Sopris in Colorado, Clifford Ross invented the R1 camera, with which he made some of the highest resolution large-scale landscape photographs in the world.
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Clifford Ross is a contributing editor for BOMB magazine and edited the book Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics.
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Clifford Ross served as chair of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation for 8 years upon Frankenthaler's death and is currently president of the Foundation.
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Clifford Ross's work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, as well as in Europe, Brazil, and China.
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Between 1974 and 1979, Clifford Ross's painting and sculpture work was entirely abstract.
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Clifford Ross determined that the only way forward was to find his own way into abstraction with a proper base in realism like the Abstract Expressionists and Color Field artists whom he admired.
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Clifford Ross stopped exhibiting for four years, studying figurative painting and sculpture at the National Academy of Design, and then continued on his own.
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Clifford Ross spent a decade in the darkroom printing silver gelatin prints, and since 2009 has printed on wood veneer, pushing the photographic medium past its existing limits.
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Clifford Ross is known for his efforts to communicate the sublime in the Hurricane series, and in most of his other work as well.
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The transition from his Hurricane photographs to the Horizon and Grain series is a good example of Clifford Ross's constant shifting between realism and abstraction.
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Typical of Clifford Ross' dialectical working process, he found his next subject, far from the ocean in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado: Mount Sopris.
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In 2012, Clifford Ross collaborated with Chinese musician and composer Wu Tong on Harmonium Mountain II, which had its world premiere at China's Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in November of that year.
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In 2012, Clifford Ross was commissioned to execute a public art project for the newly built United States Courthouse in Austin, Texas, designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects for the General Services Administration.
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Clifford Ross has lectured in numerous university and museum settings, including Princeton, Yale, and New York University.
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Clifford Ross is a member of the Yale School of Art Dean's Advisory Board, which includes artists Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Byron Kim, and Sheila Hicks.