Patricia Kerr Ross

Framed Watercolor -- Landscape in Brown

Circa 1970

This watercolor is a wonderful example of of an abstract southwestern landscape. The colors used in this piece evoke the warmth of the desert it depicts, consisting of a wide range o...

This watercolor depicts a somber landscape of a copse of trees and a stream under an overcast sky. The deep green of the pine trees and shrubs along the horizon create an almost star...

This is an exciting mixed media piece that is charming, and laden with bright color. There is a strong theme of geometric forms that break up the background of the piece and draw int...

This is an exciting mixed media piece that is charming, and laden with bright color. There is a strong theme of geometric forms that break up the the composition of the piece, adding...

Abstract landscape watercolor painting on paper that incorporates blue and grey tones. The painting is signed in the lower center and is currently displayed in a beautiful silver fr...

Pastel blue and green toned watercolor painting of a sweeping seaside landscape. In the distance a small town can be seen nestled amongst the mountains at the water's edge. Signed "F...

Purple Haze (Glyph), 2012 ink, watercolor, colored pencil, marker ink and fluid ink on synthetic paper 25 x 38 inches / 635 x 965 mm Christina McPhee’s expansive abstract paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos test or query how can we know, and who is we? Moving from within a matrix of measurement, observation and contingent effects, her work resists characterization as product, and continually accesses fields outside itself. For her, process equals trial. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, from a perspective of the non-self– a world beyond identity. McPhee’s dynamic, performative, physical engagement with materials, in both her analogue and digital works, is a seduction into surface-skidding calligraphic gestures and mark-making. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the ‘dazzle ships...

Signed lower right, 'G. Kosmiadi' for Georg Kosmiadi (Ukranian-German, 1886-1967) and dated, '66'; additionally signed verso, 'Georg Kosmiadi', inscribed with serial number and dated, '20/9/66'. Georg Kosmiadi was a resident of Rivne before moving to Hamburg in 1940 where he worked as an art teacher. Kosmiadi exhibited at the Rivne Regional Museum and a regional art...