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M ARC

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THE SOURCE OF SOUND

MARC ROSS INTRODUCTION

Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, Marc Ross would often visit the Cleveland Museum of Art. While there, he was always drawn to the work of two particular artists, the spray painting of Jules Olitski and the soft atmospheric rectangles of Mark Rothko. Standing in front of their paintings, which contained no apparent imagery, instilled in him the concept of eliciting an emotional response through patient viewing.

Then, as a young artist, he spent much time studying the paintings of Agnes Martin and Johannes Vermeer which are polar opposites in imagery but whose canvases both exude the visual sensation in paint of light and atmosphere.

He was also fascinated by Op artists, especially the work of two Cleveland Institute of Art professors, Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewics. When viewed from a distance, their paintings appear to have beautiful blends of color, but up close those subtle blends of color are the optical affect created by hard- edged geometric shapes, each painted a slightly different color value.

Taking in all of these influences over the years, He began creating works that slowly reveal their visual nature as well as force viewers to question their perceptions as they interact spatially with the paintings. When viewed from a distance, his paintings have a luminous, atmospheric, soft optical effect obscuring surface details. When the viewer approaches the canvas for closer inspection, its phosphorescent effect retreats into the surface revealing the many subtle, intricate details that comprise the whole.

His commitment is to make artwork that runs counter to our culture’s addiction to constant technological chatter and flamboyant images that we have been conditioned to crave. He believe that as a society we are devolving to no longer value quiet time, quiet space and quiet mind. For him, creating meditative and challenging paintings to off-set today’s fast-paced, multi-tasking, app-saturated-mobile-deviced society is critical.

“…Marc Ross’s work reaches a new level of accomplishment in the area of formalist art. The finished product, wonderfully rich in color and surface, is a tedious process arriving at a product that is a unique visual experience. No one else is working in this manner.”

- Dr. Louis Zona, Executive Director/Chief Curator, The Butler Institute of American Art

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enigmatically illuminated

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no written or

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visual stimulation

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meditational devices

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visual perceptions fused in paint .

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for those who can linger

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a point of concentration

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in subtle transition

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delivery systems for transcendence

eternal

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“The art of Marc Ross pays tribute to the aesthetics of minimalism, a movement which celebrated simplicity and the power of color.”

- Dr. Louis Zona, Executive Director/Chief Curator, The Butler Institute of American Art

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“The minimalistic paintings of Ross are not just about saluting past philosophies.

They instead reveal a technical facility in surface and color rarely seen today.”

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“Marc Ross’s work gives us a glimpse of another place, maybe a dream or a far-off reality. Drawing the viewer in with his quiet and soothing oceans of blue and green, suddenly shapes appear just out of focus, sometimes menacing, other times warm and comforting. These works are richly layered, cleverly composed and subtle in every way.”

- Darren B aker, Curat or Sout hern Ohi o Museum

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