Amanda Ross-Ho, Window Series (For Pei Lee)

Amanda Ross-Ho
Window Series (For Pei Lee)
2008-2010
Stretched canvas, acrylic, graphite, oil pastel, rag thumbtack, laser print, plastic measuring cup, brushes, light jet print face mounted on acrylic on fabricated panel, reproduction of original photograph Laurel M. Ross
96 x 48 x 12 inches (243.84 x 121.92 x 30.48 cm)

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by APT

About the Artwork

Executed between 2008 and 2010 by Chicago-born artist Amanda Ross-Ho, Window Series (For Pei Lee) explores the boundaries between sculpture and painting. Leaning against the wall, the work occupies the space between the floor and the wall therefore blurring the boundaries between the two media. Window Series (For Pei Lee) integrates a variety of painterly materials, found objects and visual imagery combined in a peculiar way. Thus, the piece is a testimony of the artist’s preoccupation with the way we perceive and interpret visual information: “As my interest in collecting and ordering imagery has evolved, I’ve come to see arrangements of objects on tabletops as if they were pictograms laid out on tablets. Just as a body of text is an accumulation of perhaps obscure marks adding up to something legible, these taxonomies—both the ones I’ve found and the ones I’ve constructed—have a kind of legibility that their component elements do not have on their own.”

About the Artist

Amanda Ross-Ho (b. 1975, Chicago) lives and works in Los Angeles. Ross-Ho holds a BFA from the School of the Art institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Southern California. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally with a current exhibition Untitled Period Piece at Vleeshal, Middleburg, The Netherlands. Solo exhibitions include The Suburban Opening: Amanda Ross-Ho, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (2014); Teeny Tiny Woman, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (2012); Untitled Nothing Factory, The Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX (2011); Project Series 40: Amanda Ross-Ho: The Cheshire Car Principle, The Pomona Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2010); Untitled Event, Hoet Bekaert, Belgium (2009).

Group exhibitions include The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2012); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, (2011); The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2010); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, (2010); The New Museum, New York, (2010); The Museum of Modern Art, New York, (2010); The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, (2009); and the Whitney Biennial (2008). In 2013 she debuted her first large-scale commissioned public work at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and 2015, she presented a new large-scale sculpture commission in City Hall Park, New York City through the Public Art Fund.