Michael Rose Studio

About Michael Rose

In addition to his work as a gallerist and writer Michael continues to make art, with a focus on smaller works - typically grisaille acrylics on panels. Michael’s first exposure to art took place during childhood at the Greater Fall River Art Association, in Fall River, Massachusetts, where he received private instruction for ten years. He continued studying studio art in Advanced Placement courses in high school and through a number of studio classes taken alongside his art history major course-load at Providence College. Additionally, he has studied encaustic painting with Taleen Batalian at the Providence Art Club.

Artist’s Statement

In my work I examine the aesthetic qualities of nocturnal cities: their gritty textures, their rich contrasts, their inky depths. Through the use of intimately scaled and often improvisational pen and ink drawings, as well as acrylic paintings, I depict streets and neighborhoods at night. I draw inspiration from the works of New York artists like John Sloan, Martin Lewis, and Edward Hopper. Sourced from personal experience and memory, the resulting images are at once familiar and mysterious. They convey, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the view of ‘a casual watcher in the darkening streets’.

Exhibitions

2025

Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Illumination Juried Exhibition (online)

2024
Providence Art Club, Little Pictures Show & Sale

2023
Providence Art Club, Little Pictures Show & Sale
Michael Rose Fine Art Project Space, Housewarming

2022
Monument Square Arts, Remembered Places (two person show with painter Abba Cudney)
Providence Art Club, Little Pictures Show & Sale

2021
Gallery X, Urban X-plorations
Providence Art Club, Little Pictures Show & Sale

2020
Art Room Gallery, Black and White Online Juried Exhibition, Finalist
Rowayton Art Center, Focus Under Forty All Media Juried Exhibition, Juror: Terri C. Smith
Plymouth Center for the Arts, Online Artist Feature
Bristol Art Museum, Online Artist Feature
Providence Art Club, Little Pictures Show & Sale

2019 - Linden Place Mansion, Christmas at Linden Place

collections

Michael’s work is in private collections throughout the northeast as well as in Colorado, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Work by Michael can also be found in The Brooklyn Art Library at the Taube Museum of Art, North Dakota as well as in the Rhode Island State Archives.