“STREAKIN”
Joshua AM Ross Solo Exhibition Wonzimer Gallery
341-B S Avenue 17 Los Angeles 90031 / wonzimerinfo@gmail.com
Opening: 5 pm-10 pm/ Friday, July 21st, 2023
Dates of Show: July 21st – August 11th, 2023
Wonzimer Gallery is delighted to present “STREAKIN”, Joshua AM Ross’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition highlights Ross’s drawing practice, which has been his focus for the past three years.
“STREAKIN,” is a rejoinder to adolescent
fears and liberating memories represented through astonishingly intricate colored pencil work on paper. The artwork’s frame-splitting differences and morphing moments examine how things rematerialize in order to contemplate the nature of transformation.
Joshua AM Ross creates an alternate world which he visually depicts through his drawings. The drawing’s subjects take as their central point a garment configuration that mobilizes nearly impossible arrangements of clothing and bodies. In this particular series, the setting retains a dimension of living spaces in which abstract limbic forms are placed. These dimensions enchant, enhance and estrange mundane domestic experiences.
Joshua A.M. Ross (b. 1992, Indianapolis) holds a MFA in Art from the University of California, Irvine, and a BFA in Photography from Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. Ross’s work explores the interplay between drawing and photography through notions of performance, occasioning sculptural and spatial interventions. His artworks incorporate creative participants, fabrics, and bodily limbs as critical focal points interlaced with representational and abstract scenes. In tandem with his completion of a residency at Wells College, String Room Gallery, New York, 2022, and Massachusetts Liberal Arts College, Artist Lab, 2021, Ross opened solo presentations titled Stumbling Stumbling and come inside. Other recent notable exhibitions Ross’ work has been featured in include Shadow Tracer at the Aspen Museum of Art in Aspen, Colorado, 2022-2023, Loitering is Delightful at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2019-2020 Slippers at Queens LA, 2019 a series of performances titled Telethon at Human Resources Los Angeles, 2019.
