"Paintings by Jerry Ross Featured in Group Exhibition"
2006-11-03 until 2006-11-26
Opus6ix
Eugene, OR, USA United States of America

Jerry Ross, an established and well-known painter in Oregon, is having an important sale that includes many works created years ago, some dating back to 1989. Ross is a very prolific artist completing ten or twenty large old master studies per year as a way of self-study and practice. Very much like a musician practices scales, Ross sketches out large compositions after Ribera, Rubens, Caravaggio, Veronese, etc. and then sets them aside. They accumulate as do his many portrait sketches and compositions, some for practice and others intended for sale. Jerry Ross has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2000.

Opus6ix has gathered up twenty or so of these works from Ross' attic for sale in a giant "blow art out the door" sale intended to get these works out of the attic and into people's homes. The prices have been deliberately set low to encourage sales. Over the years people have complained to Gallery owners that they would like to purchase a painting by Jerry Ross if only they could afford one. Now the gallery has made this possible with lower prices and a variety of canvases to choose from. On the opening night six landscapes sold right away.

"Departure", a large 5 x 7 foot figurative work by Ross, greets the visitor as they enter the Gallery. It depicts an imagined scene from Italian history when the army of Garibaldi was on the docks of Genova about to leave for battle in South Italy. The painting is both realistic and abstract with bright red and yellow areas pushing and pulling the spectator. Two other notable portraits in the show are "Dr. Panova after Oreshnikov" , a portrait of a Russian WWII surgeon, and " La Studentessa", a portrait of an Italian student.

Jerry Ross' work has been placed in a room with an assortment of work by other Opus6ix artists.

View more of Jerry Ross' work at http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/r/rossjerry/.

IMAGE
Jerry Ross
Departure

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