Crows Ascending
Opening: Sunday 6 October 2024
4 – 7 p.m.
Schilt Publishing & Gallery is pleased to announce Crows Ascending, an exhibition by Elliot Ross, who will be present at this event.
During the pandemic years, Elliot Ross captured images of crows taking to the air from the roofs surrounding his apartment on Russian Hill in San Francisco, California. It became a contemplative piece of art about one of the most intelligent bird species in existence. We decided to design and publish an artist’s book-like publication. Only a small selection of the very best images were used for this exquisitely produced book as well as for the exhibition.
Crows Ascending is dedicated to the memory of Elliot’s younger brother Michael. Michael had a profound intellectual disability caused by lifelong epilepsy. He survived a severe case of Covid-19 in 2020 only to die of Parkinson’s related pneumonia months later. It is also dedicated to the millions of others who have suffered or died in the United States – many due to the Trump government inaction – from Covid-19.
Elliot Ross was born in Chicago in 1947. He received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1971. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in many private collections as well as in permanent collections in the United States and abroad, including those of the Center for Creative Photography, the Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, the Bibliothéque Nationale de France, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
His other books include the critically acclaimed Animal (2010) and Other Animals (2014) which were both released by Schilt Publishing. Book design by Victor Levie (Amsterdam).
Elliot Ross lives in San Francisco and New York with his wife, the writer Ellen Ullman.
“Ross creates images laden with emotion. He discards their environmental surroundings and uses an almost painterly approach in post-production, leaving us with these beautifully isolated and powerful portraits”. – Aperture
“Crows Ascending is a very moving and quietly passionate remembrance of [Elliot Ross’s] brother’s (and so many others’) passing during COVID. The metaphor of earthly escape is powerful. It is also beautifully designed and produced”. – Barbara Tannenbaum (Chair of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs – The Cleveland Museum of Art)
Please have a look at Elliot Ross prints here.
Features & Reviews
Elliot’s interview at Talking Animals radio show – starts around 40:18
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