A&O Acquistions for 2023: Michael Ross
By Ernest Disney-Britton "Untitled" (2014) by Michael Ross We acquired only one work in 2023, a housewarming gift from a new Key West-based artist, Michael Ross. His visually pleasing work frequently features abstracted, anthropomorphic houses like the one he gifted us. Over the past three decades, Michael has worked with this iconography to investigate a shared and individual site of emotional refuge, memory, and the black male figure. The work of Draftsman John Biggers and the photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode also influence his work.