The Obelisk Shell Painting

Ross von Rosenberg, 42, is a Dallas, TX based artist and graphic designer that primarily works in acrylic paint, but also other various mixed media. He grew up in Austin and graduated with a degree in Design Communication from Texas Tech University. Ross now lives with his wife and 2 dogs in east Dallas, working as a senior art director for an ad agency, and continuing to grow and expand as an artist the rest of the time. Ross makes work that ranges from the more figurative and representational to the completely abstract; often with many of his works across that spectrum referencing, informing and influencing each other. Whether the more traditional, or the more experimental, all of Ross’ work is playing with visual juxtaposition, fragmentation, and forms of visual subversion to create senses of place, depth, and artistic tensions that range from purely aesthetic to the more specific story telling of a specific work. Ross’s influences include: Jasper Johns, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Yves Tanguy, Frank Stella, Joan Miro, Jean Michel Basquiat, Andrew Wyeth, Ralph Steadman, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, and Jackson Pollock.