Ken Gross

Drawing is a medium that grew naturally out of my profession: cartography. (Secretly, I think that I became that cartographer because what I really wanted to do was to draw) In addition to pen and ink, my repertoire includes block and intaglio printing, and watercolor.

ME. THE PERSON.
I was born and raised in Chicago, and with a couple of exceptions, most of the next twenty-five years of my life was spent in the Rust Belt cities of Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. Although artistically talented as a child, I have devoted my professional career to cartographic design. In an effort to improve the design qualities of my maps, I took up art with the intention of utilizing what I had learned into my professional work; instead, I rediscovered my artistic roots while living in Ohio and have continued that path since relocating to Maine in 2010. For these reason, I have styled myself as the Rustbelt Cartographer, despite my current location, and, here in a former mill town, because of it.

Today, I live in the small and remote rural town of Millinocket, Maine with my wife Susan Mathias and my dog Gus. I can gaze upon Mount Katahdin from my front yard—the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail within the vast wilderness of Baxter State ...

MCPD—University of Southern Maine
BA—Kent State University

2013 The Lost Maps of Norumbega. (April/May) Monkitree Gallery, Gardiner, ME (My first solo show)

2012 Occupy Art! The Union of Maine Visual Artists in Action. Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME.
(Curated by Kenny Cole, Natasha Mayers and the UMVA)

2011 49th Annual Holiday Art Show. Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME.

2011 In the Shadow of the Mind. Monkitree, Gardiner, ME

2011 Variations IV. Circling the Square Press, Gardiner, ME.

2011 A Classic Monster Show. Sanctuary Tattoo, Portland, ME

2010 The Island of Misfit Toys. (Annual holiday show) Sanctuary Tattoo, Portland, ME

2010 ArtWalk Gardiner. (Maine): December, 2010; May, 2011; August, 2011.

2010 Creative Maine: The Works of Local Artists. Monkitree, Gardiner, ME

2010 10 on the Water. Circling the Square Press, Gardiner, ME.

2007 Beyond the Printed Page, volume 4. Artefino, Cleveland, OH

2006 Plein-Air Painters. South Euclid-Lyndhurst Public Library (OH)
(curated by Mario Kujawski)

2006 Kaliedoscope 4. Summit Art Space, Akron
(Jurors: Lynnda Arrasmith, Canton Museum of Art and Frederick C. Graff)—*

2006 Shag and Stripes. Art Benefit for Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2006 The Female Figure in Art: Contemporary Northeast Ohio Artists. Gallery ...