Michael Ross Open Studios in San Francisco

The event is co-ordinated with Artspan's "SF Open Studios". Ross will be showing some twenty watercolors from travels in West Africa as well as many new paintings and watercolors of birds and wetlands. Molesky will show recent cityscapes, water close-ups, as well as narrative paintings from travels in Europe. There will be a live band thanks to Leonard Sherman and home brewed IPA thanks to Patrick M. Horn (until it runs out, come early).

Arbor Studios is a former prop-rental and antique shop in a warehouse right on Market Street in the middle of the city. As construction is ongoing, it retains some of its chaotic charm. Eleven artists currently occupy the building.

Michael Knud Ross, a dual Norwegian-American citizen, was born in Oslo, spent his childhood in Oslo and Helsinki, Finland, and moved to the United States at age eleven. He studied art and anthropology at the University of Maryland, where he graduated in 2000. Earlier projects include twelve bronze sculptures that are permanently installed inside historic emergency-call boxes on neighborhood streets in Washington, D.C. In 2007 he curated an exhibition of Scandinavian realist painting at Hillyer Art Space in D.C., which was co-sponsored by the Norwegian, Finnish, and Danish embassies. Ross has had solo shows at galleries in Santa Monica, San Francisco, and Washington DC. His work is currently represented by Geras-Tousignant Gallery in San Francisco.