My sculptures emerge from a sustained investigation into modernist sculptural history and process-based practice. I construct wall-mounted works from refigured reclaimed objects or powder-coated steel reduced to their structural logic, occupying the space between object, body and architecture. I place the work in deliberate questionable positions or asymmetry to create tension; they are placed or, in the case of the newest wall works, hung with warped geometries and protruding pipe elements to signal a body and system under stress.
A parallel between pressure of object under stress and the body after an event is central to my work as a reflection of contemporary human communication. This resonates with Byung-Chul Han's diagnosis in The Burnout Society, where modern life is understood as a condition of self-inflicted exhaustion and a culture that has mistaken relentless productivity for meaning. The fragile, provisional objects, sometimes with readymade objects or heavy materials such as cement, become physical registers of this condition.
What can a machine-based hierarchy or a "perfect object culture" offer back to the humbled human form in a time of Artificial Intelligence and machine-replaced production? My work continues to probe sculptural history, political power structures, and the consequences of inventions that destabilize the object. In their tilt or refusal to resolve, the work models a quiet, structural resistance.
Caitlin Slegr Ross (b. Slegr/ b. 1981, Los Angeles, CA) is a Czech / American living in Los Angeles. Caiti received her MFA in sculpture from Milton Avery School of Art, Bard College (2017), where she also received an MFA fellowship (2014 – 2016) and a teaching fellowship from Bard College in 2015. In addition, she received a teaching fellowship from Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA 2017 – 2018 and she received her BFA from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2003-2006). Select solo and group exhibitions include Scope, Tri-Cluster in Berlin, DE (2024); Ruth Gallery, Pasadena, CA (2023); Hermitage, Los Angeles, (2022); Incident Report, Hudson, New York, (2016), Ono, Los Angeles, CA (2016); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (2015); Waterfront, Kingston, NY (2015); Autonomie, Los Angeles CA (2012); Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2008); Compact Space, Los Angeles, CA (2006); Washington Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2005); ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2005). Caitlin (Caiti Slegr) Ross is Art Department Chairperson and faculty at Immaculate Heart High School in Loz Feliz and lives in Los Angeles.
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