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Amy Ross

Northeast
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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

I am interested in the idea of artist as mad scientist. My drawings offer visual hypotheses to the question: what would happen if the DNA sequence of a human, plant, or mushroom were spliced with that of an animal? Using graphite, watercolor, and walnut ink on paper, as well as directly on gallery walls in site-specific installations, I create hybrid creatures: wolves morphed with women; goats morphed with morels; and sheep morphed with magnolias. These phenomena are my interpretation of the perversion of the natural world wrought by genetic engineering and mutation gone awry.

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