The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series | Andrew Ross: Intersections of Assemblage Sculpture and Digital Imaging

Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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Image: Andrew Ross, The Mic is Mightier Than the Pen.

This event will be conducted in-person in room 315F and through Zoom.

For in-person attendance, please register in advance here. 
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.

Andrew Ross is an artist working within the intersections of assemblage sculpture and digital imaging. He received his B.F.A. from The Cooper Union in 2011, where he was awarded the Gelman Trust Award for Excellence in Sculpture. He attended that Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture that same year. He is currently an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz and The Cooper Union, and previously served as a visiting professor in graduate painting and drawing at Virginia Commonwealth University. He’s been a resident or fellow of programs including The Windgate Artist in Residence at SUNY Purchase College of Art and Design (2023), ISCP (2022), The Triangle Arts Association (2019), The Drawing Center's Open Sessions (2014-2015), LMCC's Swing Space (2013), The Macedonia Institute (2017), The Bruce High Quality Foundation (2016-2017), Atelier Mondial (2014), and Two Trees’ Cultural Space Subsidy Program (2021-2024). He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2025. Ross has exhibited in group exhibitions at The Hessel Museum (2020), The Drawing Center (2020, 2014), The Studio Museum in Harlem (2015), Artists Space (2015), Center for the Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center (2015), White Columns (2023, 2018), and Greene Naftali (2018). He has staged solo and two-person exhibitions at Thomas Erben Gallery (2025), Kai Matsumiya Fine Arts Gallery (2023, 2019), The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center (2020), Signal (2015), American Medium (2017), Clima Gallery (2019, 2017), and False Flag Gallery (2019, 2017). Ross’ work has been reviewed in publications including Artforum, Art in America, Cultured, Flash Art, Mousse, and the Brooklyn Rail.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Vasily Chumakov.

The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series is endowed by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. 

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