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 All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, Complex Simplicity of Art, "Mornings & Evenings -- Sunbeams & Storms" 1 a day, *A Beautiful Blur, >>>Movement: Motion Blur, Abstract Realism, Abstracts from Nature, After Dark, All About Water, All About Your Best Work, All Pets Great and Small, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Altered by Design, Alternative Christmas Images, Alternative Process and Experimental Photography, Animal Kingdom, APBT (Amercian Pitbull Terriers) lovers, Architectural Photography, Art Inspired by Dreams, Art of the Middle East, Beach Art, Bird's Eye View, Bits and Pieces , Both Sides Now, Cards: Best of Your Best, Cats and Dogs (1 per day), Childhood, Colors of Water, Corporate Art/Themes, Cutest of the Cute, Dawn and Dusk Light, Domestic and Pedigree Cats, Don't Fence Me In, Ebony and Ivory, Eerie Lighting, Everything Winter, Eye Contact, Fabulous Flowers, Falling Leaves, Farms and Countryside, Food for Thought, For the Love of Cats , 2 images a day, Forests, Funny Kritters, Green!, Historic Landmarks of Europe, Human and Nature, Humour Captured, Images & Ideas, Impressionist Art, Italy and all Things Italian, Kairos, Latin-Caribbean Art, Light and Reflection 1/24, Live, Love, Dream, Minimalism, Mixed Media, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Moody, Dark, Evocative , Mysteries of the Common, Natural Textures, Nautical, New York City, Night Photography, Object Studies & Concepts, Once In A Blue Moon, Our K9 Friend 2 images a day, Out of the Blue, Passions, Paws n Claws 3 per day, PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY, Pets Are Us, Photographic France, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Playful Photogenic Pets, Reflectivity, Safe Haven, SEA, Shadows & Reflections, Shameless Self-Promotion, Shoes, Shoot The Moon, Shots in the Fog, Skyscapes, Spring in the North-East USA, Still Life Photography, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Street Photography and Photojournalism, Streetscapes, Strictly Human Faces , Sunrise, Sunset, Surrealism, The Eyes Have It, THE WAIST UP - Portraiture Photography 2 per day!!!!, Travel and Adventure, Trees , Tropical Art, Two Beings Group, Unconventional Artistry - LOOKING FOR A CO-HOST, Urban Art , Vibrant and Vivid Color, Who Needs Color For Beauty? - Black & White Art At Its Best, Windows and Doors and Your Magic Place.
Journal Entries
"The Museum Goers #7 is currently being featured in The "Experimental" group. I've tried adding a link but I'm not certain it will work.
Posted 10 months ago, 7 comments so far.
As luck would have it, "Beach People #5 is there somewhere amongst the featured on today's rb home page
Posted 11 months ago, 14 comments so far.
One of the "Down" series of photos I've posted here on redbubble has been chosen as the new avatar for the Bird's Eye View group!
Posted 11 months ago, 9 comments so far.
A photograph of mine entitled Midnight Blue has been included amongst the featured in Stillness Speaks
Posted 11 months ago, 7 comments so far.
Looks like I've got something featured in "Featured"
Posted 11 months ago, 10 comments so far.
Crime Scene #2 is being featured in Latin-Carribean art group!
Posted 11 months ago, 2 comments so far.
My new Patron of the Arts
Posted 12 months ago, 2 comments so far.
Made my first rb sale!
Posted about 1 year ago, 4 comments so far.
