Through paper-dioramas, drawings, and sculpture, artist Andrew Scott Ross mines the ancient past in order to better understand the present. Interested in how museums offer a window into the ancient past through display cases, dioramas, and historical restaging, Ross seeks to construct his own visual gateway through which to encounter these narratives, exploring the role of imagination in the construction of history.
Taking its name from a specific artifact from Emory University's Carlos Museum—a Greek calyx-krater depicting the Greek goddess Artemis turning the Theban hero Aktaion into a stag—Tilden and the Theban Hero combines threads of Greek mythology with the artist’s own familial history to form more intimate relationships with both. These constructions are a part of a larger personalized encyclopedic museum Ross continues to develop as part of his interest in history museums as vehicles for storytelling.
For more information, please contact Faith McClure in the Emory Visual Arts Department at faith.mcclure@emory.edu or 404.712.4397.