Plates to Pixels - Press Release

Plates to Pixels - Rosso Bella Project Selected For Juried Show


WHO: Anon Rosso, Photographer

WHAT: Anon Rosso has been selected to participate in the Plates to Pixels Gallery Show

WHEN: October through November 2007

WHERE: http://www.platestopixels.com

World Wide Web. The grainy, antique-like images speak of past longings and a subtle sense of the macabre. Inspired by the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, as well as references to witchcraft, photographer Anon Rosso’s submitted images from her Rosso Bella Project that speak of these influences. With three such photographs, Rosso has been juried into the Plates to Pixels Gallery exhibition, a project of the Pacific Northwest Center of Photography. She will be included in their October on-line exhibit based on the theme: All Hallows Eve, Dia De Los Muertos, Samhain, Dark Art, Edgar Allen Poe, and Hitchcock.

This is the Plates to Pixel Gallery’s first international juried exhibition. Two hundred entries were received and 34 artists from around the world were chosen to participate. This on-line gallery is dedicated to providing exhibition opportunities for both emerging and established photographers, as well as keeping the past in the present by also featuring historical photographer essays. It is a space that consists of traditional photographic processes, as well as archaic and digital ones as well.

For Rosso, the idea of creating imagery for the Plates to Pixel’s October exhibition was a natural. Rosso who is also her own model, chose to continue the “red” based imagery in her Rosso Bella – A Study in Red Project, but also added in a more story-like idea with the Plates to Pixel images.

“Fear is something we all have to deal with and October is a great month to explore this idea. To face my fears, I stepped inside of the fear itself and portrayed that idea,” Rosso says about her imagery. However, only slightly gruesome (one in particular) these are more towards the Victorian side of such imagery, striving for a vintage aesthetic that is haunting rather than scary.

The Plates to Pixel Gallery exhibit will be available for viewing in October. Rosso also plans to display all the submitted images on her art-a-day blog (http://rossobella.blogspot.com) and her web site http://www.rossobella.com. These images will be posted towards the end of October.

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Day by Day – Rossa Bella, A Study in Red

WHO: Anon Rosso

WHAT: Photography-Art-A-Day Genre Project featuring the figurative photographs of Anon Rosso

WHEN: August 13, 2007 – August 13, 2008

WHERE: www.rossobella.com and eBay

Photographer Anon Rosso’s Rossa Bella - A Study in Red made her debut into the art scene as an art-a-day artist. Originating as a blog on www.rossobella.com, her intimate images of red juxtaposed upon the female figure are presented one day at a time. Working with small limited editions of ten, the first is auctioned off on eBay. The remainder of the editions will be sold through her on-line gallery or at various venues.

Influenced by historic photography and illustration, Rosso’s photographs have a vintage quality. Small in size, she invites the viewer to come closer. Each image is only four and a half inches by seven inches, reminiscent of French Postcards. They are digitally produced and printed using archival pigments and paper.

Rosso is also her own model. Rather than using a younger art model, she has chosen to depict her own body as an example that art can transcend age. In a world of anorexia or self-image problems, she finds her own body, softened by age, to be an alternative to the bone thinness perpetrated by the fashion industry.

“Though I am not obese,” says Rosso, “I am no longer in my twenties and fanatical about keeping off the excess pounds. I find as a am beginning to round the corner of forty, that age causes its own pattern of beauty and it has nothing to do with abstaining from food.”

As for her passion with the color red, Rosso chose the color as a tongue-in-cheek reference to her last name.

The photographs in this series are produced daily and can be found on Rosso’s blog at www.rossobella.com. Her work is available for exhibition.