Michael Ross (artist)

Michael Ross (born 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is an American contemporary artist, known for his small-scale sculptures.[1] Although Michael Ross has exhibited conceptually based works including performance, mail art, video, and audience participation projects,[2] the last twenty years have seen the artist direct his focus toward small, precise wall mounted sculptures created from scraps, unidentifiable hardware and miscellaneous things.[3] Michael Ross's earliest small-scale sculpture consisted of a single upright thimble containing the dust from several rooms of his home.[4] A small work created by the artist in 1994 made a wry salute to large-scale minimal metal sculptures like those of Donald Judd.[5] Over the years, Ross has also created numerous unique tiny sculptures inspired by the Japanese fairy tales of the writer Lafcadio Hearn.[6] His focus on the minuscule has justly identified the artist as, "a true scholar of the tiny kingdom"[7] and “a pioneer of the subversive small gesture”.[8] Michael Ross received his BFA at The State University of New York, Buffalo and his MFA at Columbia University in New York, NY.[9]