Archived Exhibition
Charles Ross | Solar Burns and Dynamite Drawings
May 24 - June 23, 2007
Reception: Thursday May 24, 2007, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Ross Biography

Braunstein/Quay Gallery reintroduces to the Bay Area the work of Charles Ross.  In the last five years, Ross has recreated a series of solar burns documenting every half-hour between sunrise and sunset on the cusp of each month.  Each burn was made during the time it takes sunlight to reach Earth, 8 minutes and 19 seconds.

Twenty-five years ago, after exploring solar burns, Ross developed an interest in naked eye astronomy.  He started an earthwork project in the desert of New Mexico entitled Star Axis.  Nearing completion, this architectonic sculpture is eleven stories high, 1/10th of a mile across, and places the viewer inside the trajectory of Earth's axis.

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Yellow Solar Burns
Dating columns
String Theory 2

Charles Ross
49 yellow solar burns, each in the time it takes sunlight to reach Earth, 2003
Burns on paper
60" x 60"; each burn 8" x 8"
Charles Ross
Detail from One Year of Dating Columns, 2006-2007
Solar burn on painted wood
Each burn 8" x 8"; column size 110" x 16.5"
Charles Ross
String Theory II, 2007
Powdered pigment exploded onto paper
40" x 60"
String Theory 3 Triangle 1  
Charles Ross
String Theory III, 2007
Powdered pigment exploded onto paper
40" x 60"		 Charles Ross
Triangle I, 2005
Exploded pigment on paper
60 x 40"
  
 
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