Garry Ross
Individual
Roles
Artist, Curator, PhotographerRoles at grunt
Founder (1984)Biography
Garry Wayne Ross was born in 1953 and grew up in Alberta. He attended Grant MacEwan Art College in Edmonton and worked as a youth art educator before moving to Vancouver. With a background in design and merchandising he did freelance graphic and photography work while maintaining a fine art practice. Ross, along with seven other artists, founded grunt gallery in 1984. There he organized and participated in group and solo exhibitions of his photography and sculptural work, curated exhibitions, and supported the early administration of the gallery, including designing the grunt logo. His expansive and ongoing personal photography included nature, travel, and street photography, and negotiated the boundaries between documentary and artistic photography as well as commercial and experimental work. His practice and presence was whimsical, meticulous, and technically minded and he maintained a working-artist ethos, supporting outsider creativity and artists who were not well served by established galleries of the day. Ross passed before his time in October 1991 during the AIDS epidemic.Related programs
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