Sarah Ross, new exhibition at the Flood Fine Art Center.

On June 11th at the Flood Gallery  6pm-9pm  will be the opeining reception for Sarah Ross with her new works in an exhibition titled: all & sundry. Sarah states that these new works, “provide scenes, objects and cratures that give meaning to my world.”   The Flood Gallery in located at 850 Blue Ridge Road in Black Mountain, NC  All events at the Flood Gallery are free and open to the public, but donations are accepted at all events.

Artist Statement:  

"I paint anything that appeals to me.  I don't have a favorite subject.  I don't have a theory, ideology or bias.  I approach each blank canvas with nothing more than some degree of confidence and a lot of hope.  

Painting opens up infinite avenues to investigate.  The more I paint, for example, the more I'm interested in the synaesthesia of light and emotion.  Take over-bright light, for instance, how its cold intensity can express with painful accuracy a sense of dislocation, anxiety and depression--Edward Hopper comes to mind.  These days, I am so interested in light that I have taken to breaking it up.  You can see puddles of light on a deck or shards of it in a person's face. Light painted on the floor of a wooden bridge, behaving like mercury."

Short bio:

Sarah Ross has lived in New York NY, Paris, Middletown CT, Cambridge MA, Munich, Ann Arbor MI, Cairo, Berkeley CA, Laguna Niguel CA, Chicago IL and Asheville NC, in that order.  The daughter of an educator, she stumbled through 3 colleges before arriving at a BA degree and a fellowship to Brown.  She has been married twice. She has 2 children and 3 dogs. A lapsed roman catholic, she prefers to look for the divine in the importance of little things: the mundane or overlooked. She reports that so far she has been protected from Covid-19 and is tremendously grateful for the mountain aerie where she lives with her husband and weathers the nightly news. 

This exhibiton of Sarah Ross new works opens June 11th at 850 Blue Ridge Road at the Flood Gallery from 6pm to 9pm and runs until July 30 2022. There will be light refreshments provided and all events at the Flood Gallery are free and open to the public.