Douglas Ross (1969) presents in “Hand/Eye” a selection from the series of colored pencil drawings “Hand/Eye” (2012–2022) in combination with select drawings from the series “An eye saw”(2014–2022). Ross works with numerous mediums including photographic objects,video, textiles, sculpture, and various machines. Ross’s “Hand/Eye” drawings -ca 100 in total – are both the result and the trace of years of revisiting the same motif. In the drawings a hand drawn in red-colored pencil is holding an eyeball or occasionally, a blank sphere. We see the eye in these drawings; the eye looks back, disembodied and indifferent, yet also intruding upon us. Held by a human hand. The drawings from “An eye saw” might propose what is seen by the eyes in the “Hand/Eye” series, what they try to detect, by abstracting and amplifying a familiar kind of stereo-visual stimulation.

A risoprint publication accompanies this exhibition and introduces Ross’s work in the Netherlands. It contains a conversation between Douglas Ross and Rotterdam based writer Moosje M Goosen (1980) to give more insight in the work of Ross, and in the origins of the “Hand/Eye”-serie.

“Hand/Eye” is co-organized by Moosje M Goosen and is generously supported by Elise Mathilde Fonds and Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht.

Douglas Ross has participated in exhibitions and screenings at Queens Museum, SculptureCenter, the Walker Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Ballroom Marfa, MOCA Miami, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, MoMA PS1, NetwerkAalst, Museum Villa Stuck, New Museum, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Rotterdam Film Festival and elsewhere. Ross has been in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA PS1 National Studio Program, LMCC’s World Trade Center World Views Program, and ARCUS Project, Ibaraki, Japan, among others. Ross has held Visiting and Assistant teaching appointments in Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku’s Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment, Rhode Island Schoolof Design’s Sculpture Department Douglas Ross currently lives and works in Queens, New York