A moving and sophisticated investigation into the nature of vision.
 
American artist Clifford Ross’s photographic and video practices over the past thirty years reveal one of the most incisive and technically sophisticated investigations into the nature of vision in the medium’s history.

Clifford Ross: Sightlines showcases the range and depth of Ross’s art by presenting the inexhaustible variety of visual experience he has created with just two primary subjects: mountain and sea. In our era of unprecedented environmental peril, his inventive exploration of these iconic subjects conveys a powerful creative engagement with landscapes that are both majestic and fragile.

Jessica May is managing director of art and exhibitions at the Trustees and artistic director of the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. David M. Lubin is the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. A former critic for Rolling Stone, he is the author of several books including Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America and Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images. Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilyn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities and the chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. In 2019, he received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art.