In 1992, Ludlow Street was just another Lower East Side gutter of low-rent tenements populated by artists, musicians, film-makers, designers, writers, and hoodlums. At the heart of it all stood Alleged Gallery. Stationed securely outside the institutionalized art world, this persistently peripheral gallery launched--in the ten years it was open--the international careers of countless artists working at the aesthetic edges of street art, fashion, film, performance and music. As the purveyor of a potent mixture of art, music, sex, drugs, and drinking, Alleged trafficked in irreverence and…mehr
In 1992, Ludlow Street was just another Lower East Side gutter of low-rent tenements populated by artists, musicians, film-makers, designers, writers, and hoodlums. At the heart of it all stood Alleged Gallery. Stationed securely outside the institutionalized art world, this persistently peripheral gallery launched--in the ten years it was open--the international careers of countless artists working at the aesthetic edges of street art, fashion, film, performance and music. As the purveyor of a potent mixture of art, music, sex, drugs, and drinking, Alleged trafficked in irreverence and unlimited freedom. In Young, Sleek, and Full of Hell, the history of Alleged's exhibitions, events and attitudes is chronicled through behind-the-scenes photographs and interviews with the artists, musicians, designers, models, actors, film-makers, curators, gallerists, and collectors who were the scene's lifeblood.
Aaron Rose is an artist, writer, musician, film director and independent curator, currently living in Los Angeles, well known as one of the cornerstones of modern urban art movement. For ten years (1992-2002) he was owner/director of the Alleged Gallery in New York. In 2006, Rose was co-curator of the museum's exhibition "Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture", which toured the world through 2009. Rose was also director of the feature documentary film Beautiful Losers (Arthouse Films/Oscilloscope). In 2011 he co-curated (with Roger Gastman and Jeffrey Deitch) a large exhibition titled "Art In The Streets", which opened to record crowds at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA). The Los Angeles production company, who's director represents Rose, also represent Mike Mills, Patrick Daughters and Sofia Coppola. His publishing imprint, Alleged Press released hardcover books by many contemporary artists including Ari Marcopoulos, Ed Templeton, Mike Mills, Barry McGee and Chris Johanson. Rose is also co-editor of ANP Quarterly, an arts and culture magazine published by skate/surf brand RVCA. Besides this, he is the founder of Make Something!, a nationwide art education program for teens, which partners world-renowned creative personalities with young aspiring artists. The artist, born in 1969 Oregon, believes that life is nothing more than a dictionary of symbols: "We look to symbols everywhere to help us make sense of our existence. From the mundane to the mystical symbols are totems that give order to the chaos and also help define ourselves as a tribe." From his very first works, symbolism has always played a major role. However, rather than use symbols for their intended significance, Aaron Rose always preferred to re-contextualise meanings in unexpected ways - creating abstract visuals composed of symbols invented and culled from the annals of visual history. Typography and hand-lettering has also played a big role in his work. While living in New York in his early twenties, Rose supplemented his income working as a sign painter on the Lower East Side. The artist's current series of works takes this a step further. The abstraction of symbols has been pushed a step further to create figurative portraits.
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