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American Suburb, New Construction, 2011
Photograph, Print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper, 18.5 x 28 in., (48 x 72 cm.), AP
Jesse Ross is a contemporary fine art photographer born December 23, 1972 in Crescent City, CA and is based presently in Tacoma, Washington. He has lived and worked as an artist for over 15 years in home bases such as Prague and Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; and Zagreb, Dubrovnik and Opatija, Croatia, as well as throughout the U.S. where he has utilized the variety of cultural outlook, and physical settings as informers of his artistic and intellectual vision.
His style is rooted firmly in the abstract as a powerfully subjective expressive force while he subtly imbues his work with references to historical photographic motivations, holding true to the premise of the documentary power of the captured real world image.
Ross' earliest work, of which most is lost, was based primarily in black and white and explored two influential themes, the first centering on geometric abstraction and grayscale tonality, the second exploring higher keyed sub/urban still lifes and landscapes. These themes persisted unchallenged until 2006 when the artist began a new vein of color photography, works which departed from straight narrative altogether to become a new pictorial, a painterly and expressionistic photography style, as may be seen in the early Red Tree. Recent revisitation of black and white composition has produced two major series of work, both abstract in nature. The first is the well publicized Tables and Chairs Shadows, Starbucks (American Cafe Shadows), the second is an expansive series of nature shadows studies called the Garden Shadows Series.
The artist has several current ongoing projects.
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