A native New Yorker, Andrew Scott Ross received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art, and his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He subsequently studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is interested in how history is interpreted, recorded, and visualized. In efforts to act out his research, he has spent the past thirteen years creating an encyclopedic museum inspired by institutions that quixotically attempt to reflect all of human history, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian, and Wikipedia. Ross has exhibited his work at Guggenheim Museum’s Peter Lewis Theater (NYC), The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, The Building for Contemporary Art (Geneva), The Knoxville Museum of Art, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, SmackMellon (Brooklyn) and the Ben Gurion Airport (Tel Aviv), amongst many others. His work has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Sculpture Magazine, and the Village Voice. Currently, Ross is an Assistant Professor at East Tennessee State University, where he teaches drawing.
This ART 158 lecture series event took place January 25, 2017, in the University of Utah Art Building, Salt Lake City, UT. Made possible through the generous support of the Carmen Morton Christensen Endowment, the University of Utah Department of Art & Art History, the College of Fine Arts, and ASUU.
