Johnnie Winona Ross Abstract Paintings
American, b. 1949
Johnnie Winona Ross is inspired by the landscape of northern New Mexico, where he has lived and worked for the last twenty years.
At first glance his paintings and works on paper appear to be largely absent of color, but looking more closely the layers upon layers of subtle earthen colors reveal themselves, knocked back by opaque washes of white. This interspersed layering of color, melding opacity and transparency, and building depth through repetition, are the integral elements of his work.
As artist and writer Kate Beck notes,
"This process of painting, scraping and repainting establishes a subliminal dynamic between counteractive elements - presence/absence, structure/freedom, resistance/release, richness/ austerity-that ultimately allows an elegant integration of romantic irony to permeate his surfaces. The viewer is quietly entranced by his purity of form, light and the suggestion of what lies beneath. This is the artist's process, his hand."
In 1999, following a long teaching career, he resigned his post as chair of the Art Department at The Maine College of Art in Portland, and moved to Taos. From his New Mexico studio he explores the vocabulary of minimalism and the complexity of rendering the experience of the high desert in pure abstraction. He now exhibits regularly in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, and throughout Northern New Mexico. He has been the recipient of many grants and awards, including a Fulbright Artist in Residence and a Gottlieb Foundation Support Grant.
Among the many public collections holding work by Ross are the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; the Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do, Jeonbuk, Korea; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM; the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM; the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; and the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM.to
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Artist: Johnnie Winona Ross
Deep Creek Seeps 10, Minimalist painting inspired by Agnes Martin New Mexico art
By Johnnie Winona Ross
Located in New York, NY
Johnnie Winona Ross
Deep Creek Seeps 10, 2007
Oil paint on acrylic base burnished on Belgian linen
Signed twice, dated and titled on the verso; also bears the original Stephen Haller Gallery label\
Canvas is stretched against wooden backing but no outer frame
This work was originally sold by the Stephen Haller Gallery which hosted several critically acclaimed, sell-out shows of New Mexico resident Johniie Winona Ross, whose exquisite Minimalist aesthetic really took hold with collectors. The debt to famous New Mexico resident and Minimalist goddess Agnes Martin is obvious, but Winona Ross has a disctinctive style and technique of his own. The process of creating this work was laborious: Ross typically applies as many as 90-100 layers of paint to each canvas, then scrapes the surface with a straight-edged razor to reveal the many layers (and their chronology), and finally burnishing the surface with a Pueblo pottery stone to achieve a soft gloss.
Maureen Mullarkey of Studio Matters wrote in 2010:
THE LOVELINESS OF JOHNNIE WINONA ROSS' paintings elude translation into either reproduction or verbal description. In 2011, ArtDaily published this announcement from Stephen Haller, publicizing a later exhibition:
"Washington Post critic Stephen Parks characterized Ross’s work in this way: “From a distance his canvases appear to be simple, minimal constructions of horizontal stripes with hints of vertical color in the background. Up close the paintings are seen to be extraordinarily beautiful and complex objects that induce a humming meditative state.”
Ross grounds his work in the inspiration of the desert of the American Southwest, and borrows techniques from ancient Native American sources, melding them with a distinctly sophisticated and utterly contemporary vision. His use of the Native American technique of burnishing pigment and minerals with a potter’s stone to create a hard surface with a visually warm sheen creates an effect reminiscent of the softening of marble steps...
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Early 2000s Minimalist Johnnie Winona Ross Abstract Paintings
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IT ALWAYS TURNS OUT FOR THE BEST.
By Johnnie Winona Ross
Located in Portland, ME
Ross, Johnnie Winona (American 1949 - ). IT ALWAYS TURNS OUT FOR THE BEST. Acrylics on paper, 1981. 29 3/4" x 29 3/8 inches, framed to 31 9/ 16" x 31 9/16 inches. Signed and titled. Provenance: Private collection, Sherborne, MA.
In excellent condition: the browned edges and the foxing mark are qualities of the old papers...
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1980s Johnnie Winona Ross Abstract Paintings
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"Failing Stares"
By Johnnie Winona Ross
Located in Astoria, NY
Johnnie Winona Ross (American, b. 1949), "Failing Stares", Mixed Media Collage on Paper, layered and painted paper constructs on lithograph in colors, numbered edition "1/82" lower l...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Johnnie Winona Ross Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media
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1983 Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1982 Courtyard Gallery, Portland, Oregon
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