Charles Ross (born 1937) is an American contemporary artist known for work centered on natural light, time and planetary motion. His practice spans several art modalities and includes large-scale prism and solar spectrum installations, "solar burns" created by focusing sunlight through lenses, paintings made with dynamite and powdered pigment ...

Charles Ross (born 1937) is an American contemporary artist known for work centered on natural light, time and planetary motion.

Charles Ross: Spectrum 14. September 10, 2024–September 7, 2025, GETTY CENTER. Plan your visit. Spectrum 14 is a calibrated array of prisms that cast a dazzling display of luminous color across the Museum's rotunda.

Police in Sarasota County charged Ross with a felony last week, saying he dressed up as a police officer for his latest prank. It was Ross's sixth arrest in Florida, each of...

Charles Ross is an artist, sculptor, and is currently building Star Axis, an earthwork in eastern New Mexico. Ross collaborated with ia Dwan for the Dwan Light Sanctuary, in which he placed 24 prisms to create solar spectrums that move through the space with the passage of …

One evening in late September 1937, Charles S. Ross, the wealthy president of a greeting card company, was driving towards Chicago when he was pulled over and kidnapped at gunpoint by a pair of...

Nearly 50 years after Charles Ross began working on "Star Axis," the artist's gargantuan work in the New Mexico desert is nearing completion.