Community Corner
Almond's Eleventh Artists & Writers Night Featuring Phil Ross
Almond announces the eleventh monthly
“Artists & Writers Night” hosted by artist Phil Ross on Wednesday, April
9th at 7 p.m. The evening titled “A
Mycological Odyssey” will feature a family style three-course menu created by
executive chef Jason Weiner. The cost is $40 in advance and $45 at the door
with a glass of local wine or craft beer, tax and gratuity. Reservations are
required.
About the Event
Can mushrooms
save the world or just satisfy its culinary enthusiasts? Join curator Andrea
Grover and artist Phil Ross for dinner and a conversation on Ross’ extensive
practice in fungal materials research. Ross, who began his career as a chef,
has worked with reishi mushrooms as a sculptural and building material for 18
years and has an international patent pending for his revolutionary technique.
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About the Authors
Andrea Grover is the Curator of
Special Projects at the Parrish Art Museum.
She was the Founding Director of Houston’s Aurora Picture Show, a
non-profit cinema specializing in media art and the presentation of
multi-disciplinary performances and screenings. She has curated film programs
for both the Dia Art Foundation and The Menil Collection. She has been the recipient of numerous
fellowships including a Warhol Curatorial Fellowship, a Core Fellow at the
Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and most recently at the Center for Curatorial
Leadership. Her latest curatorial
venture, Intimate Science, a traveling exhibit, is now on view at Parson The
New School for Design. Her forthcoming
exhibitions include Maya Lin: Platform, Parrish Art Museum, 2014, and Radical
Seafaring, Parrish Art Museum, 2016.
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Phil Ross’ art is driven by a life-long interest in biology. Even though
he was terrible at science and math in high school, his education about the
life sciences emerged from a wide engagement with materials and practices.
Through his work as a chef, he began to understand biochemistry and laboratory
methods; as a hospice caregiver he worked with life support technologies and
environmental controls; and through his interest in wild mushrooms he learned
about taxonomies, forest ecology and husbandry. Ross’ fungal structures and
furniture (all grown rather than built) are on view in Intimate Science, a touring exhibition curated by Grover, at
Parsons | The New School for Design through April 15.
