Amanda ross-ho praz-delavallade
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Amanda Ross-Ho USA, b. 1975
Amanda Ross-Ho is an interdisciplinary artist and a professor of sculpture at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Southern California.
She has exhibited, lectured, and taught widely, nationally and internationally, including the 2008 Whitney Biennial, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, The Walker Art Center, the Bonner Kunstverein and the Vleshaal Contemporary Art Center. Recently she was included in Crack Up Crack Down, the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts curated by Slavs and Tatars, and a solo exhibition at Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway. She has presented commissioned public works at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, City Hall Park, New York City, the Parcours Sector of Art Basel Switzerland, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Ross-Ho's work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, ArtReview, Modern Painters, Art in America, Flash Art, Art + Auction, and Frieze among others. Ross-Ho lives in Los Angeles.
Born in Chicago, IL in 1975
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
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Amanda Ross-Ho Praz-Delavallade / Paris
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Past: March 21 → May 23, 2015
Praz-Delavallade presents How to Remove Dark Spots, Amanda Ross-Ho’s first exhibition with the gallery consisting of new sculpture, paintings, textiles and site-specific gestures.
How to Remove Dark Spots is a new installation that explores the artist’s ongoing interest in the looping relationships between production and presentation, the universal and the personal, and the reflexive interplay between these objective and subjective territories.
Directly engaging the architectural anatomy of the gallery as well as employing hyperbolic gestures native to the site of the studio, How to Remove Dark Spots ruptures the veneers of direct experience and the sensations of looking through the collapse of binaries: genuine artifacts and articulated props, archeology and theatre. Maps, architectural scale models, and other location devices are polluted with cultural strata, authentic and simulated relics, and self-conscious objects engaged in decidedly linguistic behavior. Forensic residue of the hand at work is amplified and atomized in careful orchestration. Color palettes bleed between diverse entities and peripheral spaces insistently slip into the primary.
Wild shifts in scale and points of view engage close focus while simultaneously provi