Wallworks Artist Interview with Amanda Ross-Ho

Amanda Ross-Ho
b. 1975, Chicago. (Lives and works in Los Angeles)
Granting presence to sites of absence, Amanda Ross-Hos fascination with generative processes in recent years is evident in her large-scale installations wherein silhouettes, traces, residues and other negative spaces abound. She works between the function of pattern in textile arts and the place of production, often referencing the place where something is made while it hangs displaced in a gallery setting. Images of lacing flow through the work, either by perforating a wall or cutting canvas to imitate the shape of a macramé wall hanging. Her reclamation of kitsch domesticity is pierced with mass media images and hints at the viability of girl culture as it confronts urban grit. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles and the Saatchi Gallery, London. Group exhibitions include, Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Make Room, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta. Ross-Ho was also included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Visit YBCA to learn more about the Wallworks exhibition. http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=9234

YBCA presents Wallworks the highly anticipated curatorial debut of Betti-Sue Hertz, YBCAs newly appointed Director of Visual Arts. For the exhibition, YBCA commissions local, regional and international artists to use the literal aspects of YBCAs architectural space, built in 1993 by acclaimed architect Fumihiko Maki, as a starting point to create new large-scale works directly on the walls of both its galleries and its public spaces.

Wallworks artists crisscross between the visual and tactile qualities of the material that they use, and their interface with an audience conceived in the manner of a skeptic. Drawing the vast encyclopedia of signs inwards, their visualizations are subjective readings of spatial contingencies, as if groping around in the dark for glimmers of what is to come next.

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[melliebellie666]

Can NOT take the 'uh' and 'um' s any longer.

[ybcavideo]

You and Blake, Toastmasters Local 151.

[blakelandrews]

Um, uh, um.

[ybcavideo]

@blakelandrews What are you, the Toastmaster? :P

[xanadutosome]

@melliebellie666 Get off the internet then- I can NOT take your snarkiness- but i'll deal with it. This video is about Amanda Ross-Ho, not you. Nice try though! Let me know your bombass art practice get you a show at Yerba Buena then your opinion about another artist's demeanor might be of some relevance (maybe). Oh, uh, wait... what? Never gonna happen, you say? Well, Ummmmmmmm uhhh I guess commenting on you tube is really all you have. That's so depressing- i'm sorry for you.