Opening on Saturday at Cherry and Martin is Amanda Ross-Ho's first solo exhibition in LA, comprising sculpture, photograpy and installation. "WE CAN'T GET ENOUGH, BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH," states the Los Angeles-based artist (born 1975), who graduated in 2006 with an MFA from the University of Southern California, taking as her starting point the environment with its onslaught of information, material, things to consume, things to throw away. Out of the deluge of contemporary culture Ross-Ho carves out designated points of focus. She has said about her work that it becomes 'a navigational tool in order to digest and interpret [her environment]'. 'It has to do with ways of looking at your immediate surroundings and demanding meaning out of what's directly in front of you, locating a certain amount of fantasy within a domestic situation or looking at ways to alter your perception of the everyday.'
For her first solo show, Ross-Ho accumulates images pulled from a wide range of cultural material - drug-seizure websites and self-help books, newspaper clippings and holiday craft manuals - slowing down culture's representational flow and proposing intersections between seemingly unrelated images and objects. She presents her images and objects not only on the floor and walls, but also on structures of her own making, built from sheet rock, wood and latex paint. She draws on the architecture of the gallery space itself as yet another point of 'intersection' between her work and the environment in which it is presented.
Amanda Ross-Ho recently had a solo exhibition at Western Exhibitions in her hometown Chicago, and has been included in exhibitions at Bellwether, New York, 666 at the USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, Platform China in Beijing, and most recently in a group exhibition entitled 'Obscene Soft Sounds' at Wallspace in New York.
Amanda Ross-Ho
17 Feburary - 24 March
Cherry and Martin
12611 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
90066-3703
T: +1 310 398 7404
Content and Index, 2007
Lightjet print, Ed of 3 + 2AP, 48 x 40 inches each
$6500 (for the diptych - only 'Index' shown)
Peacock, 2007
Archival lightjet print, Ed of 3 + 2AP, 52 x 40 inches
$3500
Negative Earth, 2007
Archival lightjet print, Ed of 3 + 2AP, 48 x 60 inches
$3800
The Artistforme, 2007
Archival lightjet print, Ed of 3 + 2AP, 20 x 13 inches
$800
Tapestry, 2007
Archival lightjet print, Ed of 3 + 2AP, 20 x 13 inches
$800
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