MIC: CHECK - Sideshow Gallery, 319 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211 - Reception: Saturday, January 7, 6-9 pm - On View: January 7 - February 26, 2011 - Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 12-6pm - For more information, visit Structure and Imagery An Art Blog by Paul Behnke

18th Annual Juried Small Works Show - Upstream Gallery, 26B Main St., Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 - Reception: Sunday, January 8, 2-5 pm - On View: January 5 - January 29, 2011 - Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12:30-5:30pm

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Susan Ross is a Brooklyn-based artist. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA from Pratt Institute, and studied painting and art history at Lorenzo de Medici Art Institute in Florence, Italy.  Ross was awarded artist grants from the Puffin Foundation and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. She has exhibited her work in the Northeast, Midwest and Italy.  Her work has recently been shown in NYC in group shows at Denise Bibro Fine Art and A.I.R. Gallery and in a two-person show at The Painting Center.

Collaborating with Melissa Staiger in 2009, Susan co-curated and moderated an artist panel for Patterns of Growth at NurtureART Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. In 2010, Ross and Staiger co-curated Source, an exhibition featuring seven abstract painters, sponsored by PowerHouse Projects at the CUNY Center for Worker Education, and organized an online interview with the artists conducted by Rossana Martínez.