Ross Stockwell

Astigmatic Variations is an intersection of two experimental ideas. Stockwell captured images with six-second exposures while toying with conventional photographic technique and composition standards. In this series, Stockwell sought novelty and chance opportunities to evoke thoughts and feelings driven by the aesthetics of visual imperfection. Utilizing infrared image capture, Stockwell infuses familiar scenes with a disorienting strangeness. Through textured overlays,⁠ the artist explores accidents and surprises. The work is seriously playful and Stockwell intends for images to be interpretive rather than literal.

Ross Stockwell is an emerging artist based in Toronto, Ontario. He notices beauty, whimsy, and intrigue in unlikely places, capturing still moments borne of a mindful presence. His work is eclectic (landscape/urban, figure, and portraiture), unified by illuminating oddities and the play of patterns and geometric forms. His emerging projects emphasize narrative to connect, consolidate, and express subjective experience. He explores states of being, felt-sense moods, and emotions in an inanimate context. Stockwell previously showed his work at Contact 2022 (Spectra) “Hutchison Road” and G44’s Members Gallery (January 2023) “Dissolution.”

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Contact: stockwellr@rogers.com
Website: www.rsartphotography.com
IG: @ross_stockwell

May 15 to May 26th, 2024
918 Bathurst Street, Toronto
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Opening reception: Thursday, May 16th from 6-9pm
Artist talk: Saturday, May 18th from 1-3pm