Apr 20th 2020

Voices: RaMell Ross

@ Gallery 400

https://uic.zoom.us/j/98217200314?pwd=VVEyRXdQeDhSUlZsbGdYNHlzRE56dz09

Opening Monday, April 20th, from 6PM - 8PM

https://uic.zoom.us/j/98217200314?pwd=VVEyRXdQeDhSUlZsbGdYNHlzRE56dz09

RaMell Ross will discuss his work in photography and how it informed his Oscar nominated film, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” which looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years.

The filmed can be streamed online prior to the talk here:
https://vimeo.com/405955465
Password: Halec400

In Ross’ work, quotidian moments and the surrounding southern landscape are given importance, drawing poetic comparisons between historical symbols and the African American banal. Images are woven together to replace narrative arc with visual movements. As Ross crafts an inspired tapestry made up of time, the human soul, history, environmental wonder, sociology, and cosmic phenomena, a new aesthetic framework emerges that offers a new way of seeing and experiencing the heat, and the hearts of people in the Black Belt region of the U.S. as well far beyond.

Bio:
RaMell Ross is a visual artist, filmmaker and writer based in RI and AL. His work has appeared in places like the NY Times, Aperture, Harper’s Magazine, TIME, Oxford American, and the Walker Arts Center. He has been awarded an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship and a Rhode Island Foundation MacColl Johnson artist fellowship. He recently had a solo exhibition at Aperture Gallery in NY.

His feature documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards and has screened at Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Hammer Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art – London, Museum of Moving Image, and Lincoln Center. Ross double majored in English and Sociology at Georgetown University and teaches in Brown University’s Visual Art Department. Images from South County, AL (Hale County) and new work will be displayed in a solo exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans in late 2020.

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