Images are Archival pigment prints in edtions of 5.
20x24 inches and
44x56.
Recent shows;
2005
drkrm Gallery - Glassel Park
Focus on Aids - Los Angeles
2006
Red House Gallery - Venice - solo exhibition
PURE Gallery - Boston
Dana Ross's large-scale photographic images (50"x40") are kaleidoscopically recombined shots of plastic surgery operations. They explore the construction of beauty in the flesh and in our culture. His photoscapes show views of breast and body surgery. The details of cutting stitching, burning, skin and blood are woven together into geometric patterns that appear benign at a distance but troubling close up.
“I am investigating the paradigm of beauty in our culture. I capture images in the operating room where women are striving to attain an ideal. Often they are trying to achieve in the flesh what they have seen in photographs that are shot in the best circumstances and then retouched. I take this extreme manipulation of the flesh and explore classic constructions of beauty in print by playing with repetition and symmetry. The kaleidoscope is the extreme working of these formal devices. By putting the two together I can play with what tantalizes us and scares us about our own thinking about beauty.”
Dana gives thanks to plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Rey and these patients for supporting his vision and trusting him to photograph their surgeries. “The environment in the operating room is one of complete collaboration, trust and skill and I am honored to have been included in the team”.
