Fiona Ross, vol.1

Vol. 1 Dislocation of a More Complete Pattern

AVAILABLE WORK NOVEMBER 2022

Published 2022

Fiona Ross, Dislocation of a More Complete Pattern 41 (Detail), 2017 [Cover]

FIONA ROSS

Artist Statement

I’ve always been interested in how material properties can influence the content of an artwork, from the fine maze of cracks in glazes and paint, the gloss of dried ink, the way liquids react with surfaces. Materials flow through physical processes and reactions while I am working with them. I set notations to those processes through my choice of materials, how and when they interact, and in the form of the patterns and systems I draw. Imposing and breaking order, and allowing chance to disrupt predictability is interesting because knowing the end of every artwork’s transformation would be dull work. Studying the minute and particular nature of my materials, and their properties leads me to see their organizational systems on both a very small and very large scale. The imperfect patterns and systems I draw and paint are those found in nature and in human made materials and surfaces.

Ink droplets evaporate and leave reticulation marks of their own accord and evolve into broken patterns such as those found in fingerprints and crystalline structures. Fractal fields impose a structure on the paths of eclipses, planets, moons and suns, forming a physical link between the known and the unknown, imparting imperfect knowledge accumulated in fragments. Self-portraits flow with the memory of liquid or have the body’s absence described by thousands of tiny staves. These intact and broken systems in the form of inked patterns, single-line labyrinths, fractals and staves create a system for understanding the power of attention.

Working with ink and paper makes me commit to every decision. The relentless forwardness shapes each subsequent mark and decision, no erasures, no going back. Each decision matters, and the placement of each mark or absence of a mark affects the whole composition, just as notes and rests create music.

Opposite Page

Dynamic Bubble Raft #1 (Detail), 2020 (p. 38-39)

Fiona Ross Abbreviated CV

Lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.

EDUCATION

2001 M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

1988 M.S.T., Fordham University, New York, NY

1987 B.A., English Literature, Fordham University, New York, NY

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Fractal Eclipse and Dislocation of a More Complete Pattern, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2018 Interplay, Wilton Companies Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016 Dislocation of a More Complete Pattern, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2014 Complement of Closure, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2012 Layers and Competition, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA

2011 Trace of a Moving Point, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

2010 Walking the Parallels to Terminus, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA

2008 Unicursal Reveries, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA

The Thread in the Labyrinth, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

Fiona Ross, ADA Gallery Richmond, VA

2007 A Line is a Thing That Moves in Time, H&F Fine Arts, Mt. Rainer, MD

2006 Material, Process and Meaning, Concord University, WV

2005 Mattering, Lora Robbins Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

2005 Fiona Ross, Robert Rentz Gallery, Richmond, VA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Homeward Bound: Juried Triennial, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA Spinning Plates, Odetta Digital, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Curator, Shim Art Network

2021 Good Will, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

Pandemic Proof, Odetta Digital, Curator, Shim Art Network

2020 Sea Change, Odetta Digital, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Curator, Shim Art Network

2019 Glean, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

20/20, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

Power and Beauty: Women Artists from the Collection, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA.

Ship of Fellows, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA (catalog)

2019 Daegaya Artists Association 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Gaya Culture and Art Center, Goryeong, South Korea. (catalog)

2018 Hot Hot Hot, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2017 Homeward Bound – Taubman Museum of Art Roanoke, VA Sunscreen – Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016 View Find – Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA

University of Richmond Faculty Show, Capital One, Richmond, VA

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, International Fellowship, 2007

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship, 2005-2006

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont, 2002

Virginia Commonwealth University, Scholarship, 1999-2001

SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Republic of Ireland

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