Aaron Rose is a writer, director, curator, gallerist and cultural mover who also does copious commercial work. He has been one of the most skillful facilitators of engaging artists authentically in commercial branding. He is cocurator of the Beautiful Losers art show, codirector of the documentary film on the artists and coeditor of ANP Quarterly. He founded Alleged Gallery, 1992-2002, in New York which brought that aesthetic to the world's art center. It worked, the 2002 Whitney Biennial included for the first time Beautiful Loser artists operating outside New York and outside the commercial gallery ecosystems of the time.
Rose encourages artists to develop a strong personal aesthetic independent of sampling.
He looks back tonight over cultural movements in a talk Everything Starts Small. Rose observes that major movements in art, fashion, music and film started with an individual or small group. This is obvious, and identifiable in retrospect. The trick is to find them early as do we. It is part of an Oregon College of Arts and Crafts lecture series. Usually we don't publish this far in advance - in this case reservations required by email lectures@ocac.edu or phone 971-255-4165. In the auditorium of the Tiger Woods center on the Nike campus. 7PM Free
