Michael Gross
Michael Gross was born in 1944 and grew up in Chicago. His academic training included studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Corcoran College of Art + Design where he was
a pupil of William Christenberry. He had a solo exhibition in 2015 at the American University Museum of Art at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC. In addition, he has been in numerous group exhibitions around the world.
"The energy I call up to work in this way is both physical and spiritual. I am wrestling with divergent forces: intensity vs. detachment, emotion vs. reason, light vs. darkness, and color vs. black. Every work is an attempt to capture a moment of equilibrium, a kind of elegant balance in time and space that is recorded permanently in the painting, drawing or print.
I settle for a while, and then I seem to need to do it again."
-Michael Gross
a pupil of William Christenberry. He had a solo exhibition in 2015 at the American University Museum of Art at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC. In addition, he has been in numerous group exhibitions around the world.
"The energy I call up to work in this way is both physical and spiritual. I am wrestling with divergent forces: intensity vs. detachment, emotion vs. reason, light vs. darkness, and color vs. black. Every work is an attempt to capture a moment of equilibrium, a kind of elegant balance in time and space that is recorded permanently in the painting, drawing or print.
I settle for a while, and then I seem to need to do it again."
-Michael Gross