Ross-Ho engages a wide range of immediate and historical points of view, in a far-reaching examination of both the autobiographical and the public domains. The retroactive gaze initiated by revisiting this vintage object defines the broad territory established within the exhibition. The piece serves as a monument to a method of seeing through negotiations of positive and negative spaces, shifts in scale, and imaging through translation-maneuvers that have become signature concerns in Ross-Ho’s work. A deeply personal artifact, as well as a once common apparatus in the production of pictures, the sculpture is the newest work in Ross-Ho’s ongoing series of fabricated objects, and functions as key to the logic of the surrounding elements in the show. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a fabricated sculpture based on a ’60s-model photo enlarger belonging to Ross-Ho’s father. Each wall, based on the proportions of a sheet of paper, acts as a museum-scale page on which to present a non-linear flux of data, taxonomical arrangements, and explicitly authored compositions. For the exhibition, the walls will be returned to the museum, creating an architectural lining on which to present a connective system of discreet works-paintings, objects, and textiles -compounded in an address of translation, scale, and nested opposition. For an extended time, they accumulated the genuine residue of production, acting as literal stages for a series of hyperbolic, choreographed maneuvers borrowed from daily studio activity. studio, which were built onsite in the exhibition space and then transferred to her studio space. The exhibition includes 17 wall panels, collectively equivalent to the exact interior measurements of her downtown L.A. AMANDA ROSS-HO: TEENY TINY WOMAN will transform the MOCA Pacific Design Center space via a massive looping architectural exchange. Within the structure of each work is an embedded life cycle, mapping an organic trajectory that leads from conception through reception in its various aggregating forms. Ross-Ho’s work does not terminate in completed forms, but gains meaning through an exponential accumulation of contexts. Within this highly sensitized approach, authentically haphazard formal gestures are placed under careful scrutiny, and systematically choreographed in subsequent iterations. Although her process is rooted in immediacy and chance, it is executed with precise intentionality. Ross-Ho’s work often originates from observations of her own movements within a designated space she regularly investigates the studio itself as a fertile site for identifying potential in generative and reflexive processes. The result is a specific and consistently evolving personal language, with which Ross-Ho constructs carefully articulated poetic environments. These methodical procedures allow her to navigate her immediate surroundings, namely the incessant fluctuation of popular and unpopular visual cultures and their direct points of connection to personal and universal truths. For almost a decade, Ross-Ho has engineered an elaborate set of conceptual and formal operations that guide her art-making practice. This exhibition, and accompanying publication, offer a window into Ross-Ho’s language-past and present-with an eye toward the future,” said MOCA Associate Curator Rebecca Morse. “Amanda Ross-Ho has established a unique vocabulary of images and objects that gains momentum through complex iterations. Multiple forms explore and advance her relationship with the metaphorical potential of photography. Created specifically for the MOCA Pacific Design Center, TEENY TINY WOMAN presents her ongoing engagement with translation, scale, and the authored collapse of authentic and performed gestures, combining large-scale paintings, fabricated objects, textiles, and photographs within a custom architectural environment. Amanda Ross-Ho is one of the leading Los Angeles artists of her generation and this new installation is her largest and most ambitious exhibition to date. The Museum of Contemporary Art presents AMANDA ROSS-HO: TEENY TINY WOMAN, on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center from June 23 through September 23, 2012.
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