- Charles Ross (artist)
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Charles Ross (artist) (born 17 December 1937, Philadelphia), is an American sculptor and earthwork artist.[1] He was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.[2]
He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A., and M.A. in Sculpture in 1962.[3]
He created an earthwork known as Star Axis, which is a naked eye observatory and architectonic sculpture. Star Axis's geometry is derived from the shifting relationship of earth to the sun and the north star.[4]
"As you walk up Star Axis's Star Tunnel, you're walking exactly parallel to the axis of the earth and you're aligned with its outer extension to the stars."--Charles Ross[5]
The work was projected to cost $3 million. [6]
References
- ^ http://www.thechapmangallery.com/a-ross.htm
- ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17083-charles-ross
- ^ http://www.bquayartgallery.com/artists/ross_bio.html
- ^ http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=8374
- ^ Serge PAUL (2011). "Sensorium Dei: Observatories of the American West" in Last Freedom: From Pioneers of Land Art in the 1960s to Nature in Cyberspace , Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 50.
- ^ SUSAN KARLIN (November 03, 2002). "ART/ARCHITECTURE; A Sculptor Works Up an Exposé of the Stars' Secrets". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/arts/art-architecture-a-sculptor-works-up-an-expose-of-the-stars-secrets.html.
External links
Categories:- 1937 births
- Land art
- Living people
- American sculptors
- People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- American sculptor stubs
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