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ELIJAH LEE ROSS
b. 2004, Kansas City, MO
Lives and Works in Chicago, IL
ARTIST STATEMENT
Through my painting, I attempt to forge connections toward a shared human understanding of oneself and others. Using archetypal human figures, I seek to create Homunculi—beings sculpted of clay, effigies, or empty vessels. These forms serve as both personal expressions of emotional and experiential moments and as open spaces for viewers to project their own interpretations.
Inspired by personal experiences, these figures act autonomously on the canvas yet remain vacant enough for the viewer to inhabit and intuitively understand. They play on the ingrained ways we perceive the world and the people around us. Their forms are fluid, evoking vestigial echoes of primordial man, collective myth, and shared experience. Morphing and melding together like flexing muscles, they embody the indistinct yet ever-present image of humanity that lingers in the back of our minds.
My visual methodology is informed by graphic art and illustration, utilizing clarity of form, exaggerated anatomy, and a heightened color palette to create immediacy and emotional intensity. This approach bridges abstraction and representation, offering accessibility in form and ambiguity in content.
b. 2004, Kansas City, MO
Lives and Works in Chicago, IL
ARTIST STATEMENT
Through my painting, I attempt to forge connections toward a shared human understanding of oneself and others. Using archetypal human figures, I seek to create Homunculi—beings sculpted of clay, effigies, or empty vessels. These forms serve as both personal expressions of emotional and experiential moments and as open spaces for viewers to project their own interpretations.
Inspired by personal experiences, these figures act autonomously on the canvas yet remain vacant enough for the viewer to inhabit and intuitively understand. They play on the ingrained ways we perceive the world and the people around us. Their forms are fluid, evoking vestigial echoes of primordial man, collective myth, and shared experience. Morphing and melding together like flexing muscles, they embody the indistinct yet ever-present image of humanity that lingers in the back of our minds.
My visual methodology is informed by graphic art and illustration, utilizing clarity of form, exaggerated anatomy, and a heightened color palette to create immediacy and emotional intensity. This approach bridges abstraction and representation, offering accessibility in form and ambiguity in content.
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