Peacock Wall
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Peacock Wall, 2007
Archival light jet print mounted and framed on sintra, incised sheetrock, wood, screws, cat water bowl
Sieve
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Sieve, 2009
Canvas, gold hoop earings, thread, chrocheted doily, single earings, monogram pins, vintage iron-on,
wooden thumbtack, gold-plated pendant, rhinestone earing, ceramic pinch pots, aluminum thumbtacks,
latex, acrylic and xerox transfer on cut canvas drop cloth
366 x 275 x 16 cm
White Goddess #3 Wall
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, White Goddess #3 Wall, 2007
Acrylic on cut canvas, incised sheetrock, wood, screws, fish charm
White Goddess #3 dimensions: 228.6 x 91.4 cm Wall dimensions: 243.8 x 193 cm
White Goddess #3 Wall
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, White Goddess #3 Wall, 2007
Acrylic on cut canvas, incised sheetrock, wood, screws, fish charm
White Goddess #3 dimensions: 228.6 x 91.4 cm Wall dimensions: 243.8 x 193 cm
Ross-Ho’s paintings similarly broach the uncanny. Translated from images of doilies or macramé wall hangings, her intricate webs are manufactured in grandiose scale, cut from painted black canvas dropcloths, or carved in sheet rock. Their recognition and domestic symbolism becomes estranged, placed out of context through size and materiality. Construing kitsch with the elegance of minimalism, Ross-Ho presents the sentimentality of tchotchke as emotive voids, displacing homey intimacy to the realm of objective contemplation.
Sieve (and 4 details)
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Sieve (and 4 details), 2009
Canvas, gold hoop earrings, thread, crocheted doily, single earring, monogram pins, vintage iron-on, wooden thumbtack, goldplated pendant, rhinestone earring, ceramic pinch pots, aluminium thumbtacks, latex, acrylic and xerox transfer on cut canvas d
366 x 274.3 x 15.2 cm
Sieve (and 4 details)
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Sieve (and 4 details), 2009
Canvas, gold hoop earrings, thread, crocheted doily, single earring, monogram pins, vintage iron-on, wooden thumbtack, goldplated pendant, rhinestone earring, ceramic pinch pots, aluminium thumbtacks, latex, acrylic and xerox transfer on cut canvas d
366 x 274.3 x 15.2 cm
Sieve (and 4 details)
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Sieve (and 4 details), 2009
Canvas, gold hoop earrings, thread, crocheted doily, single earring, monogram pins, vintage iron-on, wooden thumbtack, goldplated pendant, rhinestone earring, ceramic pinch pots, aluminium thumbtacks, latex, acrylic and xerox transfer on cut canvas d
366 x 274.3 x 15.2 cm
Sieve (and 4 details)
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Sieve (and 4 details), 2009
Canvas, gold hoop earrings, thread, crocheted doily, single earring, monogram pins, vintage iron-on, wooden thumbtack, goldplated pendant, rhinestone earring, ceramic pinch pots, aluminium thumbtacks, latex, acrylic and xerox transfer on cut canvas d
366 x 274.3 x 15.2 cm
Sieve (and 4 details)
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Sieve (and 4 details), 2009
Canvas, gold hoop earrings, thread, crocheted doily, single earring, monogram pins, vintage iron-on, wooden thumbtack, goldplated pendant, rhinestone earring, ceramic pinch pots, aluminium thumbtacks, latex, acrylic and xerox transfer on cut canvas d
366 x 274.3 x 15.2 cm
Made from collected items of found ephemera – hobby reference manuals, old photographs, and bits of jewellery – Ross-Ho’s assemblages draw from the histories and associative meanings of discarded objects to describe points of cultural intersection. Sieve is a large sheet of canvas dropcloth cut in the rough approximation of a doily or paper snowflake, its irregular diamond shapes relating to home craft, tribal patterns and op art. Sparsely adorned with paint, iron-ons, and bijoux, the surface literally becomes a filter, distilling and ‘purifying’ the flotsam of personal and collective memory as a monumental field of preciousness re-valued.
Seizure
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Seizure, 2006
Light jet print mounted on sintra, 2 metal sawhorses
RHO.0002
Peacock Wall
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Peacock Wall, 2007
Archival light jet print mounted and framed on Sintra, incised sheetrock, wood, screws, cat water bowl
Peacock photo dimensions: 132.1 x 101.6 cm Wall dimensions: 243.8 x 193 cm
Peacock Wall
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Peacock Wall, 2007
Archival light jet print mounted and framed on Sintra, incised sheetrock, wood, screws, cat water bowl
Peacock photo dimensions: 132.1 x 101.6 cm Wall dimensions: 243.8 x 193 cm
Peacock is a photograph made without the use of a camera. Beginning with a classic studio portrait Ross-Ho stencilled out the subject to reveal the pattern of the underlying cutting board before scanning it into a computer. The resulting laser print presents a portrait as void: the figure reduced to a generic grid, its lines intersecting with the architecture in the background, blurring the perception of reality, illusion and construction.
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White Goddess #1 Wall
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, White Goddess #1 Wall, 2007
Acrylic on cut canvas, incised sheetrock, wood, screws, gaffers tape, wrapping paper
White Goddess # 1 dimensions: 228.6 x 91.4 cm Wall dimensions: 243.8 x 193.4 cm
White Goddess #1 Wall
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, White Goddess #1 Wall, 2007
Acrylic on cut canvas, incised sheetrock, wood, screws, gaffers tape, wrapping paper
White Goddess # 1 dimensions: 228.6 x 91.4 cm Wall dimensions: 243.8 x 193.4 cm
Seizure
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Seizure, 2006
Light jet print mounted on sintra, 2 metal sawhorses
144.8 x 111.8 x 96.5 cm
Seizure
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Seizure, 2006
Light jet print mounted on sintra, 2 metal sawhorses
144.8 x 111.8 x 96.5 cm
Seizure
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho, Seizure, 2006
Light jet print mounted on sintra, 2 metal sawhorses
144.8 x 111.8 x 96.5 cm
Amanda Ross-Ho’s work is inspired by detritus: the clutter and remnants of daily existence, and the ‘negative space’ of things over looked. Ranging from sculpture, installation, painting, and photography, her work seeks to uncover the subtle beauty of coincidence and anomaly. Working from source material as diverse as newspaper articles, narcotics agency records, life aspiration manuals, and home-craft instruction booklets, Ross-Ho highlights
points of cultural ‘intersection’ to create extrinsic portraits of contemporary zeitgeist.
Throughout Ross-Ho’s work is a sense of de-familiarisation and detachment, a numbing alienation contrived from everyday ephemera. In pieces such as Seizure, a large inkjet print of drug paraphernalia snapshots is mounted on a make-shift evidence table. A representation of a representation, the illicit glamour, allure, and enticement of busted crime is laid out for scrutiny, rendered vacant and sanitised through its photographic distancing.
