Amanda Ross-Ho at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Oversized wineglasses, cups, a fork and other objects litter worktables in Amanda Ross-Ho’s latest solo show at Chelsea’s Mitchell Innes & Nash, where the LA based artist spent August making paintings of clock faces (see the normal-sized glass holding goldfish crackers at middle right). Based on vintage paper clock surfaces that she purchased from eBay and used for note-taking, the clocks unmoor time (Ross-Ho recently lost her long-term studio) and the surreally enlarged elements from everyday life become inexplicably important. (On view through Oct 14th).

Amanda Ross-Ho, installation view of ‘My Pen is Huge’ at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Sept 2017.

Amanda Ross-Ho at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

At over four feet tall, this huge earring may be designed for a giant…but what kind of giant would wear it, or the enormous black t-shirts sliced to ribbons and hung from the gallery walls?  Amanda Ross-Ho blows up cheap fashions to attention-grabbing size, but her intention seems founded less criticism of the merchandise than in curiosity at what happens when banal products were presented as monumental.   (At Chelsea’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash through May 18th).

Amanda Ross-Ho, Gone Tomorrow, aluminum and steel plated in gold and brass, 2013.