Artist: Lisa Ross
Title: Forbidden City II
Size: 28" x 38"
Medium: Photography on Canvas
Presentation: Float Frame
China. Limited Edition. 5/30
Artist Information
| Website: | lisaross.com
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| Biography: | Lisa Ross is an award
winning fine art photgrapher and writer living in San Diego. A USC
greaduate in Communications, she trained at the prestigious Hamilton
High Photography Department where Ansel Adams and Bob Willoughby awarded
her top honors. An allergy to chemicals ended a photography career. She
became a Psychotherapist & later a political writer and consultant.
Her commentaries have appeared in the nation's top newspapers. The dawn
of the digital darkreoom allowed a return to photography and she is now
considered a master printer. She travels the world to capture images
and has work shot in 88 countries.
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| Statement: | Imaging The
World On Canvas
People's first reaction when walking into our galleries is puzzlement. We
enjoy letting them take a while to figure out what they are seeing.
When we tell them that the work starts with a photographic image, they
usually say: "no way." Then they want to know if I paint over the image
on the canvas. No.
These responses delight me. From the start, I wanted to exploit the best
of two worlds: fine art painting and photography.
While trained as a photographer, I realized that my classic photographic
work remained in print, portfolios or languished on coffee tables. And
so I set about to make photographic images feel like paintings, taking
inspiration from the great modern artists, so that people could enjoy
the pieces on the walls of their homes or work places.
To achieve the vibrancy, clarity and sharpness of the printed images,
from the smallest work to the largest, which can be as wide or high as
five feet, I use the highest quality lenses, work strictly from large
RAW files, and employ a variety of specialized software applications. As
few changes are made to the digital file as possible to avoid
pixilation. Once processed, the images are printed on canvas using
archival pigment ink.
I travel the work seeking the most visually intriguing places. Each
presents its own colors, lighting and therefore mood. These journeys
have taken me to the heights of Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Andes, the icy
blue vastness of Antarctica, and the orange larched expanse of Siberia. I
circumnavigated South America, cruised the Mekong, Irrawadiy and Amazon
rivers, traversed the textured countries of North Africa, Central Asia
and the Middle East, and touched down in the great world capitals. Six
continents. The seventh this spring as I travel through New Zealand and
Australia.
The work is best viewed where they really live, on canvas, in the
galleries that show them and on the walls of private collectors and
corporate offices.
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| Exhibitions: | Currently represented by The Ordover Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2010, July - "Georgia & the 5 Stans," with Mitch Dubrowner, Ordover Gallery, Solana Beach
2009, February "Camera Noir," Ordover Gallery, Solana Beach Randall M Hasson Gallery Santa Fe New Mexico
2008, October "Color School" Tibet, Crete, Paris, Amsterdam, Oman, Dubai Ordover Gallery, Solana Beach
2008, August China to Greece: Journeys on Canvas Solo Randall M Hasson Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico
2008, July "Asia," with Art Wolfe, Abe Ordover, Peter Fay, Sandy Freshour
2007, October Art of Digital Show, Lyceum Theater, San Diego
2007, August "Southern Hemispherics," Ordover Gallery, Solana Beach
2007, July "Imaging the World: Land-E-scapes" Solo Randall M. Hasson Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico
2007, June Del Mar International Photography Exhibition
2007, May "Contemporary Expressions," Ordover at the Museum of Natural History, San Diego
2007, April ArtWalk, Little Italy San Diego
2006, September Festival Del Mar, Del Mar Fairgrounds
2006, August "Selections from the Del Mar International Photo Show," Calumet Gallery, Escondido
2006, July La Jolla Art Association 27th Annual Regional Show
2006, July Del Mar International Photography Exhibition
2006, April ArtWalk San Diego
2005, August Wall Show Solo Del Mar Art Center
2005, July Group Show San Diego Art Institute Museum of the Living Artist
2004, September Regional Show, San Diego Art Institute
2004, August Wall Show, Del Mar Art Center
2004, July Del Mar International Photography Exhibition, Del Mar
2002, July Del Mar International Photography Exhibition, Del Mar
2001, July Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento
1966, May Hamilton Photography Salon; judges Ansel Adams, Bob Willoughby; First Place |
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