Mark Ross

Profile

Name: Mark Ross
City: New York
Country: United States

Joined: Mar 2008

If you can believe this… my father wanted me to be an artist – a painter. I was schooled to be one. Eventually, I took another path. It took me almost forever to come back to myself, to me the artist who didn’t want to be an artist.

Now, I live in New York City with one wife and 5 cats. I’m a working professional photographer of architecture and interior design. I returned to the fine arts about three years ago, only this time around as a photographic artist with a painter’s eye so my work is about both disciplines and probably because of my early formal education in music as both a pianist and a guitarist, I see the world as a compositionally structured and lyrical entity often with humor as the conductor. Bill Brandt and Harry Callahan were my favorite photographers and Claude Monet and Willem deKooning my favorite painters. There were many others that shaped my vision just as with other young aspiring artists.

Education:

Studied and painted at The People’s Art Center/Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
Studied life drawing at the Art Students League, NYC.
Studied fine art and graphic design at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,PA.
Studied advertising, graphic design & photography at The School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Apprenticed to surrealistic fashion photographer William Silano, NYC.
Currently working as a professional, freelance architectural and interior design photographer.
Recently came full circle, returning again to the fine arts.