Cast
Shadows and Circumstances
April 30 - May 17, 2009
Cast Shadows and Circumstances
Installation
Dance Little Sister
2009, Oil on Canvas
32 X 40 inches, 81.3 X 101.6 cm
I Know You Are There
2009, Oil on Canvas
32 X 40 inches, 81.3 X 101.6 cm
Les Pres Brulent
2009, Oil on Canvas
48 X 72 inches, 122 X 182.9 cm
Little Boy Blue
2008, Oil on Canvas
32 X 40 inches, 81.3 X 101.6 cm
Little Boy Blue II
2009, Oil on Canvas
36 X 48 inches, 91.4 X 122 cm
Little Red Girl Give us a Swirl
Oil on Canvas
24 X 40 inches, 61 X 101.6 cm
Lost Again
2009, Oil on Canvas
32 X 40 inches, 81.3 X 101.6 cm
Waiting for the Bell
2008, Oil on Canvas
40 x 32 inches, 101.6 x 81.3 cm
He wants the other eye as well
Oil on canvas
32 x 40 inches, 81.3 x 102 cm
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Daniel Ross will be featured on Star Portraits on
Bravo! His episode will air on Saturday November 7, 2009 at 8 pm in
the Oakville area.
For more details visit
http://www.starportraits.ca/schedule.php
Daniel Ross was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1966. From an early age, he
had a strong attraction to art and after several years at university
realized that his life goal was to be an artist. In 1989 he was
accepted to the Ontario College of Art (O.C.A.) and offered advanced
standing. Not wanting to rush through the program, he declined the
advanced standing and chose to complete the full four year program. In
his third year at O.C.A., Daniel was accepted to study abroad in
Florence, Italy: the experience was unforgettable. In 1993, Daniel
graduated from the drawing and painting department with an honourable
mention. In the years since graduating, Daniel has spent many hours
developing his body of work, and over the last three years has been
able to dedicate all his time to painting.
Daniel’s work has a very
personal vision, dealing heavily with different emotions and their
reactions with certain states of mind. He first began exploring these
emotions through abstract paintings, but was more and more drawn to
the use of the figure and landscape. Through the displacement of
figure and landscape, or object and landscape, he tries to communicate
individual inner thoughts.
Must a self-portrait be truly a painting of
oneself? Can a variety of different personal expressions through
ones inner self be truly represented? Can self be portrayed by an
inanimate object, a chosen landscape, or through an abstract
expression? For the last fifteen years, at various different times,
I have explored self through each of the above approaches. Each body
of work is clearly separated from the next, but similarities emerge
when stepping back to review this historical landscape. Resonating
in all the work is an obvious emotion and context that communicates
a clearly personal message.
“What am I?”, “Who am I?”, and “Why am I?” have
become the ultimate driving questions that resonate throughout my
creative process. At the core, my artwork is an expression of
personal vision - my work deals heavily with various emotions,
personalities and interpretations of self. Each work is an inner
search - a journey of the mind – opening and breaking through walls
of the past in constant search for What, Who and Why.
My art has, and continues, to search for ways
to express how I feel at particular moments in my life. And, if I’m
successful in this attempt, I understand those moments better. For
an extensive period I focused on a solitary figure ‘portrait’
contrasted against a winter landscape. Here winter became the
metaphor; winter covered me but revealed itself. Winter became a
large blanket under which I hid but also the way in which nature
exposed itself in the stillness of the moment.
Now, after emerging from full-time fatherhood
the solitary figure has been replaced by family, the new self. As a
family we are committed to raising our child in an inclusive
atmosphere, respectful of our planet, environment and cultural
diversities. An expanded question of how one raises a socially
conscious child in today’s world has become an added driving force.
As a family, we are focused on the basics of reduce, reuse and
recycle, electing to ride a bike over driving a car, to buy local
and organic instead of mass-produced and processed and, in our home
television has become a non-essential; music and art have become the
intrinsic life values.
It is only expected that these new influences in life will direct a
new stage of creative expression, leading to the answer of What, Who
and Why.
Daniel Ross Biography
More Works by Daniel Ross
Exhibition - "Waiting for the
Light"
Now and Then, Now and Again
2009, Oil on Canvas
24 X 40 inches, 61 X 101.6 cm
Walking away from Somewhere
2007, Oil on Canvas
32 x 40 inches, 81.3 x 101.6 cm
Two Idiots, a Fool and Her
2008, Oil on Canvas
36 x 108 inches, 91.4 x 274.3 cm
Waiting for Dan
Oil on canvas
40 x 32 inches, 102 x 81.3 cm
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