Ross Sawyers This is the Place

October 17 to November 23, 2024
Artist’s Opening, Thursday, October 17, 6 to 8PM
Artist’s Lecture, Wednesday, October 16, 6:30PM
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IMAGES FROM THE EXHIBITION
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Platform Gallery is pleased to present our fourth solo exhibition of photographs by Ross Sawyers, titled This is the Place. Over the past decade, Ross has produced photographs that distill subtle but important aspects of urban domestic architecture. Throughout the evolution of this project he has remained focused on living spaces and how he relates to, and understands, those spaces in the context of contemporary culture. His pictures examine and exaggerate issues of privacy and community as well as scrutinize the ways the structures we call home affect us. 

This is the Place brings together seven new photographs from Sawyers’s ongoing project Model Pictures. In the vein of the previous work, these new photographs are of models constructed and shot in the studio, however drawing and mark making take a much more dominant role in these images. Symbols drawn and scratched onto the walls of these spaces make direct reference to the ways people use their dwellings as a means of communication and as a stage to act out frustrations and anxieties. 

Ross Sawyers earned his MFA from the University of Washington. Ross’s work has recently be featured in FOAM Magazine and the Magenta Foundation publication Flash Forward 2012. His work has been exhibited recently at Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam and in the exhibition The Ghosts of Architecture at the Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington, Seattle, WA). His work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA). This is Ross’s fourth solo exhibition at Platform Gallery.

Image: Nothing Doing Here, 2013, archival inkjet print, 40 x 30 inches, editon of 5