Alexander Ross (B. 1960)

Alexander Ross uses a hyperrealist technique to render fantastical structures that at first appear to be everything from alien growths to silly putty constructions. With its blurred, layered, honeycombed blue-green pattern Untitled from 2003 leans towards the latter, reflecting the artist’s practice of building a synthetic universe from plasticine, which he first sculpts, then photographs, and finally manipulates in Photoshop before painting it.