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THE FACTS:
THE CRIME: THE MOTIVE: THE SCENE: THE SUSPECT: THE PAYOUT: |
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THE FACTS: THE CRIME: THE MOTIVE: THE SCENE: THE SUSPECT: THE PAYOUT:
PRIVATE
- a series of 12 paintings
by Chris Ross
showing at ARTWORD Gallery
August 14 to September 15, 1999.
PRIVATE
- a series of 12 paintings by Chris Ross
showing
at ARTWORD Gallery - August 14 to September 15,
1999.Opening
reception - Thursday, August 19 from 5:00 - 7:30pm
Gallery
Hours - Tues - Sat 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Using
meticulously detailed realism, the artist explores
a
sinister scene in her childhood home and invites
the
viewer to play private eye.
The
hard-boiled detective narrative that runs through
the
paintings doubles as a very personal analogy for
Ross'
private views on art and entertainment and the artist
rounds
up all the usual suspects of race, class, and gender
in
her investigations.
Artword
is pleased to present the Toronto debut of PRIVATE.
The
project has previously been shown at the Gallery of
the
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montreal,
Gallery
101 in Ottawa, and Struts Gallery in Sackville,
New
Brunswick.
Chris
Ross was born in Kitchener, Ontario in 1970. After
graduating
from the Ontario College of Art in 1992,
Ross
moved to Montreal and began exhibiting regularly.
Her
work has garnered positive reviews in publications
such
as MIX magazine, the Montreal Gazette, Le Devoir,
the
Montreal Mirror, and HOUR magazine, as well as being
featured
on the television show Ooh La La.
Ross
presently resides in Toronto.
Ross
would like to thank the Canada Council for
the
B grant that aided in the creation of PRIVATE.