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Monday, August 22, 2011

Polychromatic Eyegasm: Recent Paintings by Susan Ross

 Crane and Nanabush  2009   oil on canvas   18 x 24"

Susan Ross was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She attended The Alberta College of Art and Design between 1979 and 1983, majoring in painting. Her art production had slowed down in the closing years of the late 20th Century but has recently been 'ramping up'. After creating a series of landscapes that fall somewhere between Fauvist and Tom Thomsonesque sensiblities, Ross embarked on a cycle of work employing imagery derived from petroglyphs that she had researched during a visit to Woodview, near Peterborough, Ontario. These sacred and mysterious rock drawings take on new meaning(s) when filtered through Ross's aesthetic scope. Riotous skeins of dizzying hallucinatory colour coalesce with retina-burning intensity in this group of paintings; pictures that could induce the very visions that inspired them.

Contact Susan Ross at:  rossfloyd@rogers.com 


  Geometric Trance  2011  oil on canvas   36 x 30


  Kitchi-Manitou    2009     oil on canvas      48 x 36



 Shaman Vessels   2010    oil on canvas  40 x 30




 Shaman's Gallery (tryptich)    2010    oil on canvas  30 x 120




 Shaman's Gallery  Part I     2010   




 Shaman's Gallery   Part II   2010




 Shaman's Gallery  Part III    2010





 Solar Boats    2009   oil on canvas   48 x 36       


 Soul Boat   2010    oil on canvas   30 x 30





 Woman and Double Snake    2010      oil on canvas  36 x 48





 Cumash Cosomology   2011    oil on canvas  30 x 36





Agawa Rock    2009    oil on canvas     40 x 60

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Images of Interest

A woodpecker that I found behind my car



'Mending' firewood with a cast



A stack of documents



A really long carrot




Tumours



 
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Bacteria as pop art (contributor: Julian Forrest)




Maunsell Forts




C-130 Hercules cockpit/nose




Ungulate 



Melting Deer




Launch gone terribly wrong





Golden Launch Green Dawn  2006 Stephen Hannock  12 x 10"  oil/canvas 




SM-3 Ship Launch   2009    David Janzen     oil/canvas     12 x 12"
 



Doe Sinnlichkeit    Franz Stuck    1891   etching




October    William Merritt Chase




Ferdinand    Robert Lawson   1936





   Tintin      Raymond Lemstra







Tilted Mule  2008    Jack Niven 9.5 x 6 x 1"  oil/masonite





Universal Mule   2008  Jack Niven  16 x 7.6'  latex on plywood





Goatse   Shary Boyle  polymer night-glo clay & goauche  9 cm tall




Below: An informal survey of my own efforts, from 1985 - present.
(Requiring annotation)