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Ross RacineThe Hills Beckon2013
2013
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signed and editioned on reverse, limited edition of 5
This print is presented framed with a finely crafted natural wood frame, matted with archival materials.
This limited edition print is from Ross Racine's "Metropolitan Gardens,” series, in which the artist depicts realistic aerial views of fictional suburban communities. These works on paper present structural layouts of invented subdivisions, which in many ways illustrate the isolated conditions common in these types of developments.
Racine’s work is photorealistic, but not photographic, it is completely created from beginning to end by Racine without a camera or a photographic reference. Racine is an omniscient surveillance camera in the sky, his world is filled with the contradictory bravado of a demented city planner. His suburbs have no zoning, roads go nowhere, or way too far. They are at once wholly improbable and completely possible, and they remind us how misguided we can be. They poke fun at human nature, at grandiosity, and impracticality.
Racine’s works are line and texture, with the flattened plane of a satellite photograph—no horizon line, no sky. The subtle tones and photographic grain often veer almost to complete abstraction, only to be brought back by what is undeniably a house with trees around it and a garage. The buildings themselves become patterns, the uniform and also very random lines of the streets and the patchwork grains in the fields form uneven grids. These works on paper have as much in common with oriental rugs or quilted blankets as they do with Google maps. They tell a story.
- Creator:Ross Racine (1952, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2013
- Dimensions:Height: 23.63 in (60 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6922138513
Ross Racine
Ross Racine was born in 1952 in Montreal. Racine's works are drawn freehand on a computer and no photographs are used in the process. These imagined, aerial views of suburban development consider our society and methods of transportation within and around suburban developments. These drawings of aerial views use the distant, perpendicular mode of viewing for its reflective capabilities as a way of thinking about design, the city and society in general. His prints have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Canada and Europe, most recently at the Des Moines Art Center, The Vienna Künstlerhaus, the International Print Triennial in Katowice, the Koffler Centre of the Arts, the International Print Center New York and the Front Room Gallery in New York. A selection of Racine's prints has won the biennial prize at the 2011 Biennale Internationale de Gravure Contemporaine in Liège, Belgium. His work is in several collections, including the New York Public Library Print Collection, the Des Moines Art Center, the Johnson & Johnson collection and the Hallmark collection. He currently lives in Montreal and sometimes in New York.
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