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New York
Magazine's Critics' Pick
“Brimming with
pornographic innuendo, imagery from religious texts and the Internet
are reinterpreted in samplers and sculptures created using
handicraft techniques such as cross-stitching and knitting,
effectively blurring the line between the proper and the obscene.”
New York Magazine
September 2008
The Village Voice
“...This young artist's "Motherboard" series features
appropriated Internet porn—nubile women sprawl across large cotton
panels, cross- stitched in silver and gold thread with digital
precision... Witty videos filter sex scenes through those round
eye-test patterns of colored dots you might remember from grade
school. Substantially more men than women are color- blind—Ross
offers one way to subvert the "male gaze" amid the Internet's
panopticon of voyeurism...”
R.C. Baker
September 2008
The Saatchi
Gallery (Online)
“...The work, in this contemporary context, mingles teasing
innocence with erotic voracity, challenges the irony of
representation of the female form with standard moral differences
between sanctified love and fantastical desire. Ross's sculptures,
mixed-media installations and video works originate from internet
imagery, religious texts and domestic objects—all loaded with
pornographic innuendos – which Ross works and reworks using
handicraft techniques, transforming them while retaining a sense of
their original meaning and physical form. 'Sacred Profane' draws our
attention to the whimsical and the absurd as much as the tragic and
the morally significant.”
The Saatchi Gallery (Online)
September 2008
We Make Money Not
Art
“...Challenging the irony of representation of the female form
with standard moral differences between sanctified love and
fantastical desire. I found them so perfectly representative of
today's America, a country where young women are sexualized, where
porn thrives. Yet, a country where tv series show women making love
while wearing their bras and where boys bands wear chastity rings.”
Régine Debatt
writer/curator, www.we-make-money-not-art.com
September 2008
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by
John Aäsp.
“Sacred_Profane is a refinement of Ross’s previous efforts to pair
acceptable domestic traits of women against blatant objectifications
of the female body, to deploy the male gaze against itself, and blur
the boundary between fine art and free porn. Ross advances her
practice only by further complicating the questions.”
John Aäsp
Director of Visual Arts
September 2008 |
