Joel Ross
Birthday Card, 2017
Acrylic, plaster, and enamel on wood
33 x 46 1/2 x 4 in.
83.8 x 118.1 x 10.2 cm
83.8 x 118.1 x 10.2 cm
For his fifth solo exhibition, Ross returns with a series centered on several minimalist text paintings.
Joel Ross has shown at moniquemeloche since 2001, when our first gallery space was inaugurated with his ambitious installation, I Borrowed My Mother’s Bedroom. Subsequent exhibitions have dealt with narrative representations of the dynamics of public and private spaces in a variety of media. Two intertwined and consistent themes run through the artist’s practice over his 20-year career: his fascination with the role of the roadside in the mythos of American culture, and the slipperiness of language.
