UCSB Art Professor Receives Guggenheim Fellowship for Achievement in Photography

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) – University of California, Santa Barbara, Professor Richard Ross has received the prestigious Guggenheim fellowship for 2007. He is among 189 artists, scholars, and scientists from the United States and Canada so honored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Guggenheim Fellows are selected on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

Ross, Professor of Art, will use his fellowship award to continue a photography project he began five years ago, titled "Architecture of Authority." It features a series of photographs depicting architecture as a representation of authority. While the completed portion of the project focuses on empty rooms, his new work will include similar spaces occupied by actual and perceived figures of authority.

An exhibition of "Architecture of Authority" will take place in June at Acme Arts in Los Angeles and travel to Aperture Gallery in New York City in 2008.

Ross, who has taught at UCSB since 1977, was the principal photographer of the J. Paul Getty Museum's Getty Villa restoration project, which was completed last year. He also is the principal photographer documenting the Getty Conservation Institute's research work in various countries, including El Salvador, Honduras, Tunisia, and China. He has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Europe, and has photographed for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, Discover, and Vogue.

Receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities is David Gordon White, UCSB Professor of Religious Studies, who will use his fellowship award to complete his book "Sinister Yogis." More.

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