About Alex
I grew up in this big dirty museum that some like to call New York City. Trained as a Photographer and Filmmaker; My most imagined worlds are often still defined by the digital. My current body of work consists of wooden objects that echo tomorrow’s tech.
Rockets and space travel conjure a curiosity to imagine a more hopeful future. By inviting that same curiosity into a domestic space, My objects shrink our big, scary universe into something that’s friendly for the home.
Wood is a living thing. Wood glows when it’s handled with genuine affection, and treated with respect, the ancient material can be also just as strong as steel. In this way, I am attracted to its parallels to the human condition. In part, it challenges the morals of space research itself. The commercial spaceflight business burns kerosene and hydrogen at high altitudes, depleting our ozone layer further and crowding our skies more with junk each year. Human innovation has brought us the power to explore the Solar System while also the audacity to ignore our Climate Crisis. But Something strange happens when wood mimics the furthest thing from it. Mocking technology already hard to believe, The impossible achievements of spaceflight become unbelievable once more, if only for a moment.
Contact
Alexander A. T. Gross
26 Washington Avenue
Portland, Maine, 04101
aatgstudios@gmail.com
(347) 801-4467
Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2020 Maine College of Art
BFA (Pending) - Woodworking and Furniture Design, Portland, Maine
2019 Maine College of Art
Social Media Ambassador - Woodworking and Furniture
2019 Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Chairmaking Student - Professor Craig Vandall Stevens, Snowmass, Colorado
2017 Photo-A-Gogo
Photographer (Group Show) - Sold Work, Portland, Maine
2017 Maine College of Art: BFA Show
Photographer - Showed three photographs, Portland, Maine
2014-2016 Ohio Wesleyan University
BA (Transfer to Maine College of Art), Delaware, Ohio
2015 Ohio Wesleyan University Communications Department
Filmmaker - Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware Ohio
2014-2015 Ohio Wesleyan Marketing Group
Filmmaker - Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware Ohio
2014-2015 Ohio Wesleyan University Newspaper
Photographer - Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware Ohio
2014 Tribeca Film Festival (Tribeca Kids Access)
Post-Production and Editing, New York, New York
2014 The American Black Film Festival (One Last Chance, D. Vaughn Thorpe) Videographer and Editor, New York, New York
2014 Summer Arts Institute (Frank Sinatra School of the Arts)
Teaching Assistant, New York, New York
2013 Columbia University, Columbia Medicine
Freelance Photography, New York, New York
2013 New York City Department of Education (LPZ MEDIA)
Film Editor, New York, New York
2012 Nan Melville Photography
Documentary Filmmaker/Intern, New York, New York