Event

Open Rehearsal | Lisa Ross

In collaboration with emerging choreographer Indah Walsh, renowned musician from Perhat Khaliq of Qetiq (Western China), and Uyghur dancer and filmmaker Mukaddas Mijit, Lisa Ross presents her performance piece Rise to the public in an open rehearsal.

Lisa Ross was born in Brooklyn, NY. Her work revolves around the liminal spaces in which faith, culture and abstraction meet. Her immersive landscapes and early black and white work, explore the skin of the land. In doing so, she reveals the texture of culture, and, in time, the political realities inextricably bound to place that emerge.

Ross has traveled extensively for her work and in 2013 had a book published titled Living Shrines of Uyghur China by The Monacelli Press, distributed internationally by Random House. The artist's work has been shown at The Rubin Museum of Art, NY; Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; Brunei gallery, SOAS, University of London, University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; Rencontres d'Arles, France and La Vielle Charite in Marseilles, among others. In 2013, Ross was commissioned by a French cultural institution, CICRP to make a body of work in Azerbaijan for Marseilles 2013.

Ross's work received reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Artforum, The Wall Street Journal and many other print and online journals. Her book has received enthusiastic responses in The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books and London Review of Books. Ross received an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Image Credits: Lisa Ross headshot; courtesy of the artist