Sally Ross: Painting as Performance at Collezione Maramotti
Sally Ross's practice defies traditional painting, emphasizing construction and performance over representation. At her solo exhibition at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, she presented five new works created through actions like sewing canvas fragments, throwing paint-filled balls, and sweeping surfaces with bundled colored pencils. Ross recycles materials from previous pieces, treating each work as an evolving map. Her interest lies in the space between canvas and wall, not in pictorial illusion. The exhibition, titled 'Painting Piece By Piece,' opened in 2018. Ross works from a rustic 1890s stable in SoHo, New York.
Key facts
- Sally Ross constructs paintings through performative actions like throwing paint balls and sweeping with pencils.
- Her solo exhibition 'Painting Piece By Piece' was held at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia in 2018.
- Ross recycles canvas scraps from previous works, never discarding leftovers.
- She is interested in the spatial gap between the canvas and the wall.
- Ross does not make preparatory drawings; she works intuitively.
- Her studio is a converted 1890s stable in SoHo, New York.
- The work 'Goodbye Old Friend' (2014) incorporates a piece of a shirt she wore for years.
- Ross uses a child's lacrosse racket to hurl paint-filled balls at the canvas.
Entities
Artists
- Sally Ross
Institutions
- Collezione Maramotti
- Artribune
Locations
- Reggio Emilia
- Italy
- SoHo
- New York
- United States