Michael Rose "Untitled (1)"

Michael Rose "Untitled (1)" 2021

Painting: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 18 x 22 in, Framed 21 x 27 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, Includes Certificate of Authenticity

Michael Rose is a painter, musician, and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at The Untitled Space (2025, 2023) Artego (2024) and in group shows at Bendheim Gallery (2023), Field Projects (2022), Kellen Gallery (2021), 25 East Gallery (2019), Trestle Gallery (2014), and Circolo degli Artisti (2012). In addition to his studio practice, Rose has co-curated group exhibitions at 28 Varick Ave (2023), Studio 146 (2023), and New House (2013). 

As a musician, Rose wrote and produced Phantasmagoria, an album for synthetic piano, released by ArpaViva Recordings in 2016. He is currently working on a second album. 

Rose holds an MFA in Fine Arts from The New School: Parsons (2020) and a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2013). He was a resident artist in the RISD European Honors Program in Rome (2012).

"My work engages with memories, alienation, humor, and the variation and range of emotional experience. In this series, sense organs emerge from a particulate haze, prismatic and atmospheric. The form is clear at times; in other moments it dissolves into its context, defined only by the thinnest film of skin pressing against the surface. What emerges is a kind of tension between the simultaneous permeability and isolation of the self and the body. Painted rapidly with oil paint on panels, canvas, linen, and polyester that is often left un-stretched, the creative process is unconcealed; the marks left in the margins, the hand-cut edge, and spontaneous peripheral forms between paintings are part of the composition. Paint and procedures are allowed to blur and layer, resulting in an image that hovers somewhere between memory and amalgamation." - Michael Rose

Learn more about Michael Rose's artwork on our website.