Quincy Ross is a well traveled self-taught artist/designer/photographer with an interdisciplinary background in music, fashion, graphic design and business. In 2000, an inspired Ross began studying architecture in Barcelona, Spain which led him to the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture back in the United States.
While continuing to study architecture, Ross started teaching introductory photography in 2006 at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ross would begin class by converting a room into a camera obscura by darkening the space until only a spot of light is coming through a pinhole. The light projects an upside down image of the exterior landscape into the room. This is the basic concept of what photography is based on and what drives his creative expression.
Ross believes the equipment is not as important as what the artist is attempting to capture and express. With this guiding principle Ross can be found using medium format, vintage Polaroid, digital and even toy film cameras to frame his imaginative eye’s creations. Ross has exhibited work nationally and internationally. His work has been published in Where magazine and in the documentary film A Portrait of an Image Maker, 2007. Ross has recently exhibited work in Bilboa, Spain at the Guggenheim Museum which closed February 2010. Ross continues to create and exhibit at his award-winning downtown Phoenix studio.
Exhibitions
- Flopspace (Phoenix, AZ) 2005
- Anti-Space (Phoenix, AZ) 2006
- Fortoul (Phoenix, AZ) 2006
- Taliesin West (Scottsdale, AZ) 2007
- Old Red (Phoenix, AZ) 2008
- ModFab (Scottsdale, AZ) 2009
- Conjure (Spring Green, WI) 2009
- Guggenheim (New York, NY) 2009
- Guggenheim (Bilbao, Spain) 2009-2010
Lectures
- Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona. 2007-2010
Teaching
- Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona. 2006-2010
Published Work
- History of the T-shirt Book 2002
- Map Magazine 2004-2005
- Where Magazine 2007
- Portrait of an Image Maker (DVD) 2007
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Book of Quotes 2009
- Java Magazine 2010