Mark Ross
Profile
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.
Groups
Mark Ross is a member of Complex Simplicity of Art, *All Seascapes, Abstract Realism, Abstracts from Nature, All Things Orange, Altered by Design, Alternative Christmas Images, Animal Kingdom, Architectural Photography, Art Inspired by Dreams, Art of the Middle East, Beach Art, Bird's Eye View, Bits and Pieces , Cards - Best of the Best, Childhood, Colors of Water, Corporate Art/Themes, Creative Inspirations, Cutest of the Cute, Dawn and Dusk Light, Don't Fence Me In, Ebony and Ivory, Everything Winter, Experimental, Fabulous Flowers, Falling Leaves, Farms and Countryside, Food for Thought, For the Love of Cats, Forests, Green!, Happy Haven, Human and Nature, Humour Captured, In The Shadows, Italy and all things Italian, Latin-Caribbean Art, Light and Reflection, Lines, Live, Love, Dream, Minimalism, Mixed Media, Musical Art, Mysteries of the Common, Nautical, Night Photography, Object Studies & Concepts, Our K9 Friend, Out of the Blue, Passions, Petshop CS2, Photographic France, Safe Haven, Shoes, Shoot The Moon, Shots in the Fog, Skyscapes, Still Life Photography, Stillness Speaks, Street Photography and Photojournalism, Street Signs, StreetArt, Streetscapes, Sunrise, Sunset, Textures and Materials, The Fine Art of Photography, The Urban Environment, THE WAIST UP - Portraiture Photography, Travel and Adventure, Trees, Tropical Art, United States, Vibrant and Vivid Color and Windows and Doors.
Journal Entries
A photograph of mine entitled Midnight Blue has been included amongst the featured in Stillness Speaks
Posted 2 days ago, 7 comments so far.
Looks like I've got something featured in "Featured"
Posted 4 days ago, 10 comments so far.
Crime Scene #2 is being featured in Latin-Carribean art group!
Posted 14 days ago, 2 comments so far.
My new Patron of the Arts
Posted 18 days ago, 2 comments so far.
Made my first rb sale!
Posted 21 days ago, 4 comments so far.













