From Top Left Corner Spiraling into center:
Inside the White Cube, book, plaster, wood, found object, 16" x 16" x 56";
Marquee Moon, tarpaper, plaster and burlap on panel, 48" x 96";
Notis, paper, wire, steel rods, 30" x 22", ceiling suspension height variable;
Featured Artist Ross Watts in the garden of Little Estia's Kitchen (Sage Harbor, NY) with his "Schooling Bass" installation (Photograph by Daniel Gonzalez);
Stones, book pages, glue, 8" x 6" x 2" each;
Yet Again, paper, steel, screws, 12" x 15" each, Diptych;
Notes on a Gallery Space (detail), graphite on paper, 30" x 22" each, diptych;
Tar #3, tarpaper, burlap, plaster on wood panel (center image)
photographs courtesy of Sara Nightingale Gallery, unless otherwise noted
Ross Watts creates minimal, conceptual paintings, sculptures, and installations. Through the repetition of simple activities, alterations of paper, windows, and walls, at once straightforward and complex, blend into and intensify existing situations, evoking urban architecture, the office environment, the grid. Recent work, influenced by a move to the East End of Long Island, has involved a turn toward the natural world — stones carved from the pages of books and paintings made from stencils of layered fishing nets, stretching the grid into more organic forms.
Ross Watts is from North Carolina. He received a BFA from The University of North Carolina and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. After 7 years in Brooklyn, NY, he relocated to Sag Harbor with his family. He has exhibited nationally and is represented in numerous private collections.
http://www.rosswattsart.blogspot.com/
Sag Harbor, New York
Ross Watts was previously included in The Nice Niche feature "The Art of Estia's" -- http://www.theniceniche.com/the-art-of-estias -- and is part of the current group show, 'Redacted' at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY:
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curated by Janet Goleas
April 13 - June 1, 2013
Reception, Sunday May 4 1-4pm
Islip Art Museum
http://islipartmuseum.org