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The Cacti

Amy Ross
  • $85.00

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My childhood love of fairy tales, nature, mushroom hunting, and forest roaming is alive and well in my work. In the studio, I portray the natural world through the lens of fantasy and imagination. Using hand-cut collage, I take a mad scientist approach to art making. I create hybrid creatures by combining images of humans, plants, and fungi into what I call "nature morphs."

Indoor plant enthusiasts, nature buffs, desert dreamers and fans of the artfully fantastical will all feel at home in the presence of these fine spiny figures. The many-stemmed amalgam at right might be mandacaru, a columnar night-blooming cactus with large, white, fragrant flowers. In the middle is what looks like resin spurge, a Moroccan native that’s actually a shrub. And is that opuntia on the left? While these three selections exhibit a wide, wonderful range of qualities, colors, and textures, the legs Ross has chosen for each of them are strikingly similar. The skin tone, the pop of the right knee, the pair of feet in a sort of subtle first position—they’re super synchronized, grounding the image and giving these diverse species a visually unifying factor. The legs are also an unexpected (and exceedingly delightful) source of contrast. Smooth, shapely, feminine, in an easy-going, passive pose, they are in many ways the opposite of the cacti’s sharp points, colorful appearance, and in-your-face exuberance ... 
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+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Signed + numbered certificate of authenticity included
+ Directly supports the artist
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

Museo Portfolio Rag

Edition Structure:
10"x8" | edition of 10
14"x11" | edition of 200
20"x16" | edition of 50
30"x24" | edition of 10

Artist - Amy Ross

Amy Ross

Boston-based artist Amy Ross was a religious studies major at Connecticut College and earned a Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School before studying art at the SMFA at Tufts University. Her work is fueled by a lifelong interest in folklore and mythology and a deep reverence for the natural world. Amy has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Jen Bekman and Jenn Singer Gallery in NYC, Kopeikin Gallery and Overtones Gallery in Los Angeles, and Steven Zevitas Gallery and Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston. Her work is in private and public collections nationwide, including the DeCordova Museum, Fidelity Investments, Wellington Management, Simmons College, and the West Collection.

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