Tonight! Artist's Talk with Andrew Scott Ross Tilden and the Theban Hero, Andrew Scott Ross Artist's Talk: Wednesday, October 16, 7:30pm Carlos Mus

       
1 grey

Tonight! Artist's Talk with Andrew Scott Ross

Tilden and the Theban Hero, Andrew Scott Ross
Artist's Talk: Wednesday, October 16, 7:30pm
Carlos Museum Reception Hall, 3rd Floor
Directions and Parking Information

Stop by the Visual Arts Gallery beforehand to see the show. Or check out a few images of the exhibition here, courtesy of John Ramspott.

ASR photo 5 13

Andrew Scott Ross was born in Manhasset, NY, and now works in Johnson City, TN. He received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art, an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Ross has been selected for the Art In The Outback Fellowship Travel Grant, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and a CEC ArtsLink Award. Ross has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including: The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, The Guggenheim Museum in New York, The Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, The Knoxville Museum of Art, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

andrew madmimi USE

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.

Image:
Tilden and the Theban Hero, 2013 (top)

1px