FACULTY
Joel Ross
Assistant Professor and Chair of Foundations
jgr@illinois.edu | website | CV
Teaching areas:
Foundation, Junior, Senior and Graduate Level Studio Courses in Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
Research areas:
Sculpture, Installation, Photography, Drawing, Film, Text/Language, Advertising, Humor, Public Space, Narrative/Fiction, Criminal Psychology, Politics, War, Graffiti, Theft, Travel, Vintage Signage, Poker History, Espionage, Motels
Degrees:
B.F.A. Tufts University, M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art
Joel Ross, Assistant Professor and Chair of Foundations, makes work in a wide range of media.
He is currently working on a series of sculptures that take the form of roadside signage. These objects are made and then sited at locations ranging from single-lane gravel farm roads to major highways. Most of these installations are not formally authorized, so the work's engagement with its initial audience, travelers on the road, is often rather brief. A series of photographs of these installations and the related works on paper become a record of these events as well as the primary point of engagement with their second audience, the art-going public.
He is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago.
Joel received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI and his BFA from Tufts University in Boston. He lives and works in a farmhouse with his wife and two daughters.
