Clifford Ross is a multi-media artist who graduated from Yale in 1974 with a degree in art and art history. His work focuses on the beauty and sublime qualities of nature, using both realistic and abstract means – through painting, sculpture, photography, computer animation and stained glass. He lives in Sagaponack, NY.
Among his best-known works are his Hurricane Wave photographs, captured during hurricanes off the beaches of East Hampton while tethered by rope to an assistant on land.
His work has been exhibited and collected widely in museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It has been the subject of essays by David Anfam, Quentin Bajac, Arthur C. Danto, and Alexander Nemerov among others. In 2015, MASS MoCA presented Landscape: Seen & Imagined, a major mid-career retrospective.