In the information overload of today’s society, it is all too easy to be inundated with data that only supports our own preconceived notions of the world around us. Algorithms and data collection provide websites with everything they need to reinforce users’ confirmation bias via tailor-made newsfeeds. Now, more than ever, we live in a time when an individual must actively work to see things from a new perspective. By placing imposing blocks of color incongruously amidst the reality of natural forms, my recent paintings explore an individual’s struggle to see beyond one’s self and one’s perspective to a more informed point of view. These monoliths, just as our own thoughts and actions, don’t simply obscure our view, but change the landscape of our realities.
Artist Biography
Ross Carlisle is an Ohio-born, Philadelphia-based artist, illustrator, and painter. Using everything from the human figure to large swathes of color, his work explores opposing forces both actual and imagined. His paintings have been exhibited in Philadelphia, New York City, and many other galleries and museums throughout the Northeast.
Education
2010 - 2011 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Continuing Education
2004 - 2008 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Bachelor of Fine Arts, Two Dimension Studies with a focus in Painting
2006 Student Art Centers International, Florence, Italy Summer Session
Awards & Honors
2015 Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Community Arts Grantee
2008 Arts Xtravaganza 12x12, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Best in Show
Professional Experience
Other
2020 InLiquid 2020 Silent Auction & Benefit, InLiquid at Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2014 - 2017 Red Hook Studio Tours (Open Studios), Brooklyn, NY
Exhibitions
Group
2019 Selective Memory, Brooke Lanier Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA Invitational
2018 Sisyphus Protests, Ghost Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Invitational
2017 23 Pairs, Arnot Art Museum, Elmmira, NY Invitational
2016 96.8 Miles Brooklyn to Saugerties, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY Juried
Border 2016, Starr Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Juried
Flesh + Bone, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D.C. Juried
75th Regional Exhibition, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY Juried
On the Body, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA Juried
2015 Forms and Functions, miLES, New York, NY Pop-Up Exhibition
2014 Office Exhibit, Registrar Office, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY Invitational
2013 First Contact, Gallery Project, Detroit, MI Invitational
2011 Symbol, Myth, Reality, The Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latino Americano, New York, NY Invitational
Felled, Pine Box Rock Shop, Brooklyn, NY Invitational
2010 Undercurrent (Whitney ISP Exhibition), Artist/Performer for Alfredo Jarr, The Kitchen, New York, NY Invitational
Exhibitions Curated
2009 Off the Grid, KumuKumu Gallery, New York, NY Guest Curator/Director
