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Douglas Ross
Born Brockton, Massachusetts, 1969. Adapting to the situation at hand through a strategy of limited intervention, Ross makes work in sound, video, installation, text, and performance. He unites these diverse practices with his interest in framing new perspectives. For Mills College in Oakland, California, Ross proposed what he called “the perpetual titling or captioning of an area or several areas” by locating LED displays beside contemplative sites around the campus, which would display the ever-changing titles of the most recently checked in or checked out book or media from the F. W. Olin Library. Inside/outside, private/public, nature/culture: these binary terms and how to bridge their apparently oppositional relationships motivate other Ross works, as well. In 2000, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council awarded him a studio residency. His work on the World Trade Center’s 91st floor resulted in Picture Motion (above and below) for which he outfitted all of the space’s windows with motorized horizontal blinds that rotated in unison, masking the remarkable view of New York City eight times per second and transforming it into a filmic vista as the room and people inside flickered like the projection of silent films. Ross will recreate this remarkable piece for Artificial Light, but its new context at street level will heighten the immediacy of the exterior view while transforming the experience into artifice. 
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