In our front gallery, we’re showing “Amy Ross: Nature Morph.” Ms. Ross is known for creating strange, yet strangely elegant hybrid characters using ink and watercolor on paper – flora and fauna are intertwined, with sheep’s heads blossoming on magnolia branches, for example, and frogs seeming to share body parts with mushrooms. In this new body of work, the poetic twists continue, as birch trees balance on tiny hooves, and the human figure comes into the mix, often sporting a wolf’s head.
At the same time, in our Mini Skirt, Ms. Ross has curated a group show of four artists whose work she feels inspired by, called “Come Undone: Laura Ball, Justin Gibbens, Mary Sherwood and Karin Weiner.” This show introduce four artists from Los Angeles, Seattle and New York, all of whom are doing interesting work on paper, with the idea of “nature gone mad” as a strong theme uniting their work.