EBERHARD ROSS | SOURCE

Painting, drawing, photography
March 27 - May 23, 2009
Opening Reception: March 27, 2009, 7 pm

The works of Eberhard Ross
By Sonia Crivello

Eberhard Ross studied Fine Art at Folkwanghochschule/ University Essen in Germany. Ross has studied the philosophy of Zen Buddhism for many years and this is revealed in his art both in the subject matter and in its execution. In his more abstract works Ross painstakingly covers canvases, sheets of paper and more recently aluminium with networks of lines and pattern that develop organically in a repetitive and for Ross a meditative process. Increasingly taking inspiration from scientific data and photographic archives of natural phenomena he captures the wonder of apparently random formations and translates these onto the canvas. He is fascinated by the spiral forms of snail shells, leaves and bark, butterfly wings, fingerprints, and ripples on the surface of water. In the Swarm series of paintings he has taken film footage of the gathering of thousands of starlings as they fly across Northern Germany and his paintings are literally a snapshot of a moment in their flight path revealing the dynamic relationship between a group of birds at one moment.
As we learn more about the laws of natural science through advancing technologies of astronomy, microscopy, time-lapse photography and so on it becomes clear that similar patterns of structure and energy occur in the cosmos and in our own world. For those studying Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism and Taoism there is familiarity with the idea that everything exists in a continuous dynamic relationship and that there are principles underlying the natural flows of Nature. In essence this is what Ross is trying to convey a sense of in his work.

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