Charles Ross
Biography

Education
1962    M.A., Sculpture - University of California, Berkeley, CA
1960    B.A., Mathematics - University of California, Berkeley, CA

Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions
Charles Ross | Recent Work | May 24 - June 23, 2007

Selected Commissions

2005    4 over 5 +72, Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
2004    Conversations with the Sun, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
2004    Spectrum 8, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
2004    Solar Spectrum, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, NM
2001    Eighteen over Five, Eugene and Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO
1999    Spectrum 12, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
1998    Solar Spectrum, US Federal Courthouse, Tampa, FL
1996    Dwan Light Sanctuary, United World College, Montezuma, NM; commissioned by Virgina Dwan
1996    Pythagorus’ Rainbow, Cook Institute, Grand Rapids, MI
1993    Year of Solar Burns, Chateau d'Oiron, Oiron, France; commissioned by the Ministry of Culture
1992    Solar Spectrum, Harvard Business School Chapel, Cambridge, MA
1990    Latitude 41°, Central Naugatuck Higher Education Center, Waterbury, CT; Connecticut Commission on the Arts
              Tumbling 12, Alaska International Airport, Anchorage, AK; commission: Alaska Percent for Art
1987    Light Lines, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1986    Light, Rock and Water, Wells Fargo Plaza, San Diego, CA
1985    Light Gates, Linclay Corporation, Kansas City, MO
1985    Lines of Light, Rays of Color, Plaza of the Americas, Dallas, TX
1983    West Light, Towson State University, Towson, MD; commission: Maryland State Arts Council with NEA support.
1983    Rock Bow, Cumberland Station, O'Hare Rapids, MI
1982    Toward Seven, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
1980    Spectrum Building, Denver CO
1979    Dietrich Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
1979    Prestonwood Town Center, Dallas, TX
1977    Two Prisms form the Origin of Color, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1976    GSA Art and Architecture Program, Federal Courthouse, Lincoln, NE
              Solar Spectrum, Porat Yeshivat Joseph, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel. (Moshe Safdie, Architect; not built)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004-05    Solar Burn, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico
1996    Relaciones, Museo de Arte y  Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
1995    Projects with Light, Time, and Planetary Motion, Richard Humphrey Gallery, New York, NY
1992    Star Axis, Johnson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1991    Particle Light, Sena Galleries, Sante Fe, NM
1985    Plaza of the Americas Gallery, Dallas, TX
1982    Prisms and the Exploded Spectrum, Heydt/Bair Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
1981    Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
              John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1979    The Colors of Light, The Colors in Shadow, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1977    The Substance of Light, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
              Point Source/Star Space, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
              Light Placed, M.I.T., Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1976    The Substance of Light, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
              The Substance of Light, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
              The Substance of Light, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1975    Point Source/Star Space, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
1974    The Clocktower, New York, NY
1972    Sunlight Convergence/Solar Burn, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1971    Sunlight Dispersion, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
1968, 69    Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
1968    Daytons Gallery 12, Minneapolis, MN
1966    Spirals, Columns, Lenses and Prisms, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1965    An Environment, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007    Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
2004    Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2000    Sharing Exoticism, Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
2000    Land Art, Kustraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
1997    Art + Science: Sensitive Chaos, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
1996    Contemporary New Mexico Artists, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
              Trilogi: Modet med Skabelsen, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
1995    Forces, Richard Humphrey Gallery, New York, NY
1994    A World of Maps, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
1993    Differentes Natures, La Defense, Paris, France
1991    Virginia Dwan, Art Minimal, Art Conceptuel, Earthworks, New York, Les Années 1960-70, Gallerie Montaigne, Paris
1988    Interaction: Science and Art, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1987    Stalking the Light, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
              Looking into 3 Dimensions, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, AK
1986    Lo Spazio, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
              About Place, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
              Contemporary Primitivism, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
              Perceiving Light, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
1985    Eddies, School of Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY
              New Prints from SoHo, Fuji-i Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
              Zeit und Sonne,  Bietigheim and Engen, West Germany
              The Comet Show, Light Gallery, New York, NY
1985    Maximal Implication of the Minimal Line, Blum Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1984    Land Marks, Blum Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
              The Dilexi Years 1958-1970, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
              Projects: World’s Fairs, Waterfronts, Parks, and Plazas,Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983    Sky Art, BMW Museum, Munich, West Germany
              Energy in Sculpture, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
              Illumination, Museum of Modern Art Lending Service, New York, NY
              Moments and Landscapes: The New Public Art, McIntosh / Drysdale Gallery, Houston, TX
              Art and Energy, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
              Group Show, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1980-81    Selections from the John Weber Gallery NYC, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL;
              International University, Miami, FL
1980    Cartes et Figures de la Terra, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
              Beyond Object, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO
              Recent Work / Gallery Artists, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
              Across the Nation: Fine Art for Federal Buildings, 1972-1979, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
              Supershow!, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN; The Center for Fine Arts, Mesa, AZ;               The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH
              Summer Exhibition, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1978    Numerals, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Dartmouth College Gallery, Hanover, NH
              Recent Works, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1977    Time, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
              Probing the Earth, Contemporary Land Projects, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.;
              La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
              Culture and Customs, Old Customs House, New York, NY
              Maps: Their Science and Their Art, Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
              Drawing for Outdoor Sculpture: 1946-1977, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY; Amherst College, Amherst, MA;
                             UC Santa Barbara, CA; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; MIT, Cambridge, MA
1975    Images of Power/Sources of Energy, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
              Drawings 111, Stadtsches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
              Art in Landscape, Organized by the Independent Curators, Inc. of Washington, D.C.
1974    Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
              Fire, Air, Earth, Water, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
              John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1973    New Acquisitions, University Gallery, Berkeley, CA
              Group Exhibition, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1971    Elements of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
              Projected Art: Artists at Work, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
              Final Exhibition, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
              Prospect 71…Projection, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1970    3 Salon International, of Galeries-Pilotes, Lausanne, Switzerland
              Group Show of Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
1969    The Whitney Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1969    Recent Acquisitions, The Howard Lipman Foundation, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
              Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
              Language 111, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
              New Alchemy, Elements, Systems and Forces, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
              Plastics and New Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA; McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
              Prospects 69, Kunstalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1968    Magic Theatre, Nelson Adkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
              Directions 1: Options, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
              Cool Art, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
              Sculpture Now, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, Long Island, NY
              Prospect  68, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1967    Light: Works by Landsman, Mefferd, and Ross, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
              Schemata 7, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
1966    Cool Art, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
              Lenses & Prisms, Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
              Environment 11 - Lenses, Prisms, Water, Light, Architectural League, New York, NY;
                             Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
              Schemata 7, Finch College, New York, NY
              Light as a Creative Medium, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
              Nelson Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
              Hendrix College, Conway, AR
              On the Edge, David Stewart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
              New Modes in California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA

Awards and Grants

2007    Santa Fe Art Foundation, NM
2005    Washington Building Congress Award for “Spectrum 8”, National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI),
                             Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2000, 03    The McCune Foundation
2000-02, 87, 86    The William H. and Mattie Wattis Harris Foundation
1999    Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts
1997    National Council of Art Administrators 1997 Award of Distinction for Artistic Achievement
1995-06    Eugene V. & Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust
1993    Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture: Design Award for The Harvard Business School Chapel,
                             Cambridge, MA
              Boston Society of Architects.  Award for Art and Architecture Collaborations for The Harvard Business School
                             Chapel, Cambridge, MA
1990, 92     Frost Foundation, Construction of Star Axis
1984    NEA Visiting Artist Program, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington
1977    NEA Artist in Residence, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1976    American Institute of Graphic Arts Award for the book Sunlight Convergence/Solar Burn, Charles Ross,
                             Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1976
              New Mexico Arts Division Grant, NM
1976-77    NEA Individual Artist Grant
1975-77    New York Center for World Game Studies, NY
1973-74    NEA, Artist in Residence, University of Utah

Museum and Public Collections

Albuquerque Museum
Arizona Salt River Project
Berkley Art Museum
Butler Institute of American Art
Centre Pompidou
City of Chicago
City of San Diego
City of San Francisco
Des Moines Art Center
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris
Foundation Center, N.Y.C.
Frederick A. Weisman Museum, Minneapolis
French Ministry of Culture
G.S.A. Art and Architecture Program
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Harvard Business School
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Johnson Gallery, University of New Mexico
Kramarsky Collection
Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Lannan Foundation
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts
Nelson Atkins Museum
State of Alaska
State of Connecticut
Towson State University
United World College, New Mexico
University of Pennsylvania
Walker Art Center
Whitney Museum of American Art

Books

Selected Bibliography

Dempsey, Amy. Destination Art.  Berkeley, Los Angeles: UC Press; London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. 92-95.
Rainer, Yvonne. Feelings Are Facts: A Life.  Cambridge, London: MIT Press, 2006. pp 225, 244.
Roman, Mathilde. A propos de Charles Ross – Entretein avec Loïc Malle. www.lacritique.org, March 25, 2006.
Malle, Loïc. Conversation with Charles Ross, July, 2006. Video.
“Starry Starry Night,” Architectural Record, October, 2005. pp 102-109.
Carver, Jon, “Timeline 2005: Charles Ross’ Star Axis,” Art Papers, July/August 2005. pp 28-33.
Khan, Yasmin, “Graced by Rainbows,” Santa Fe New Mexican, Sept. 17, 2004, pp B-1, B-4.
Boettger, Suzaan. “Behind the Earth Movers,” Art in America, April, 2004. pp 54-63.
Christen, Markus.  “Star Axis – ein monument der Kosmischen Geometrie,” Kunst+Stein, December 6, 2002. pp 11-15.
Karlin Susan, “A Sculptor Works Up an Exposé of the Stars’ Secrets,” The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, Sunday November 3, 2002; pp 21, 28.
Martin, Jean-Hubert.  Le Chateau d’ Oiron et son Cabinet de Curiosités.  Paris: Éditions du Patrimoine, 2000, pp 170-173.
Malle, Loïc.  Transparence et Transcendance, in Architectures de Lumiére, eds. Anne-Marie Charbonneaux and Norbert Hillaire.  Marvel, 2000. pp 180-183.  Color Photos.
Linton, Harold.   Color in Architecture.  McGraw-Hill, 1999, pp 169-173.  Color Photos.
Tanaka, Yukito.  Introducing Artwork into the University, Kenchiku Bunka, Vol. 54 No. 633, July, 1999.
Bensley, Lis.  The 48, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, June 27-July 3, 1997. 
"Light Sanctuary," Art in America, April 1997, Color photos , p31.
Adlmann, Jan.   Contemporary New Mexico Artists: Sketches & Schemas.  Craftsman House: Australia, 1996.  Color photo on Cover and color photo 167, photos 168-169.
Sieglaub, Seth, ed.  Charles Ross, ArtPress Spécial: 69/96, Avant-Gardes et Fin de Siecle; 75 Artists Reconent leur Parcours, Hors-Série Numéro 17 1996, Color photos, pp 114-115.
Rivera, Ray.  "Let there be Light", Santa Fe New Mexican, Sunday, June 2, 1996, Color photo.
Vine, Richard.  "Charles Ross at Humphrey," Art in America, September 1995, pp 107, 108.
Oakes, Baile.  Sculpting with the Environment, International Thomson Pub. Inc., London, 1995, Color photos, pp 46-55.
Nanjo, Fumino.  "Art in the Workplace," SD Monthly Journal of Art and Architecture, June 1994, Color photos pp 28, 29.
Sayre, Henry M.  A World of Art, Prentice Hall Inc: Englewood, NJ, 1994.
Tiberghien, Giles.  Land Art, c. Editions Carre, Paris, 1993; Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 1995.
Werkner, Patrick.  "Star Axis," Diadelos, June 1993; 40-45.
Bizot, Jean Francoise.  "Le Reenchantement de l'Amerique," Actuel, April 1992.
Toikka, Koonnut Antero. "Aavikkotaidetta," Taide, April 1992.
Werkner, Patrick.  Land Art USA, c. Prestel-Verlag Munich 1992; 123-130.
Conwell, Douglas.  Celestial Artwork, New Mexico Magazine, March 1992.
Plevin, Nancy.  "Earthwork Aspires to Connect Man to Heavens," (A.P. Wire), Los Angeles Times, Nov.10, 1991.
Munro, Eleanor.  "Light Revealed," METROPOLIS, April 1991; 38-41, 54. Color photo.
Ellis, Simone.  "STAR AXIS," Pasatiempo (The New Mexican), Feb.1, 1991; cover, 20-22.
"Point Source Star Space," SERRA 15, August/September, 1990. (Italy); color photo, 88-89.
Squibline (cover), Fall, 1988.
Saad-Cook, Janet.  "Touching the Sky: Artworks using Natural Phenomena, Earth, Sky, and Connections to Astronomy," Leonardo, Vol. 21-2, Spring 1988, Photo.
Gerster, George.  Gestures and Creations: Productions and Positions of American Earth Art, Wochenende Neue Zurther Zeigtung, May 9-10, 1987.  Photos.
Wilson, MaLin.  "Walking through Rainbows: A New Trip at the San Francisco Airport," San Francisco Examiner, May 1, 1987.
Munro, Eleanor. Art in the Desert, The New York Times, Sunday, December 7, 1986. Photo.
Harper, Hilliard.  "New Wells Fargo Sculpture Connects Light and Stars," Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1986.
Brenson, Michael.  "The Lure of the Landscape," The New York Times, March 9, 1986.
Linton, Harold.  Color Model Environments, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., NY, 1985; 226-30.
Ranney, Edward.  "Western Spaces: Excavation The Present," Aperture, Spring 1985; 42, 46, 47.
Reid, Dixie. "Stairway to the Stars," Albuquerque Journal Magazine, February 5, 1985; pp12-14.
Capasso, Nicholas.   "Environmental Art: Strategies for Reorientation in Nature," Arts, January 1985; pp 73-77.
Lippard, Lucy.  Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, Pantheon, NY, 1983; pp 104-5. Photo.
McDevitt, Lorelei Heller.  "Bringing Light Into Focus," Designers West, October 1983; 110-13.
Sky Art Conference '83,  (catalogue), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Sept. 1983, pp 9, 29, 90.
Sakane, Itsuo.  "World of Expanding Images - Sanctuary Where the Earth Meets the Sky," Asahi Shimbun, Sept. 9, 1982.
Wilson, MaLin.  "Santa Fe: Charles Ross at Heydt/Bair," Artlines, July 1982; pp 31-32. Photo.
For Spacious Skies, (catalogue), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981.
Chafee, Katherine Smith.  "Charles Ross," Artspace, Fall 1981, pp. 24-27, 60-61. Color photos.
Sakane, Itsuo.  "Cosmic Art," Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, March 27,1981.
Sofaer, Anna.  "Sunlight Convergence/Solar Burn," Archaeoastronomy, Winter, 1980; pp 42-44.
Clurman, Irene.  "Catch a Rainbow at Spectrum," Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO,
Oct. 26, 1980; p17. Photos.
"A Major Move for Earthwork Art," San Francisco Examiner, October 28, 1977; p24.
Forgey, Benjamin.  "Hirshhorn Gives Us a Glimpse of Faraway Earth Art," Washington Star, Oct. 30, 1977; F-1.
Lewis, Joanne. "The Landscape of Art for the '70's," Washington Post, Oct. 30, 1977; L-1, L-3.
Larson, Kay.  "New Landscapes in Art," New York Times Magazine, May 13,1979; pp 20-23, 28, 30, 33-34, 36, 38. Photo.
Keefe, Jeffrey.  Artforum, May 1979. Photo.
Thalacker, Donald.  The Place of Art in the World of Architecture, Chelsea House/R.R. Bowker, 1979.
Kuspit, Donald W.  "Charles Ross: Light's Measure," Art In America, March/April 1978; 96-100.
Horvitz, Robert and Charles Ross.  Co-Evolution Quarterly, Winter, 1977-1978; pp 104-107. Probing The Earth: Contemporary Land Projects, (catalogue), Hirshhorn Museum, 1977.
Shapiro, David and Lindsay Stamm.  "Charles Ross," Arts Magazine, June 1977; p9.
The Substance of Light: Sunlight Dispersion, The Solar Burns, Point Source/Star Space, (catalogue), La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, 1966.

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