Joseph Gross Gallery

I rarely leave reviews but it needed to be expressed.
Once «ARTNOW» Highly unprofessional employees. They also threatened to trash my artwork, after the fact that my team made plenty of attempts to receive the pieces. Will not be working with them again.
Personal note, Joseph himself is a great guy.
He just needs a quality team.

A Hypebeast’s wet dream…
The Wes Anderson show was more pop-​up shop than art show. Not that I’ve been to many gallery shows, but do they usually use push pins and butterfly clips to display the art for sale? To think they actually charged people admission for the first few days. Unconscionable.
Skirts were being blown up on every woman who strayed too close to any corner by the powerful fans needed to keep the heat at bay. Yeah, I don’t want to smell your crotch. Thanks.
The cloth totes and tees were a reasonable 20 dollars. I would say that the pricing overall wasn’t outrageous for the quality of the work. But I have no idea if any of it sold. Nothing was marked as such. So that just added to the feeling that it was over-​hyped.
People came in costume to this two room viewing. Good for them. But for me, it was way out of the way to come for such an underwhelming event. I couldn’t even find a cup of coffee on the block. Don’t bother going to 10^th Ave. That’s a dead zone. You’ll have to hit 9^th for any blessed caffeine. It was like an insult to injury.
Lesson learned. Beware of twee.

This weekend the Spoke Art Collective presented the Sixth Annual Wes Anderson Art Pop-​Up at this small gallery near the Highline. The gallery is small, clean and had a significant amount of lighting as there was only a small window containing an air conditioner (in addition to strategically placed fans everywhere). I really should have done my research as I did not realize that this was fan art collection and almost all of the art was for sale. From what I observed, the prices ranged from $ 20 to upwards of $ 3,000 for maybe six or seven dozens pieces ranging from print screens to oil paintings and even leather or burlap bags. I thought the art may have been made by Mr. Anderson himself, but that detail was immaterial as «The Royal Tenenbaums» is one of my favorite films of all time and the multiple interpretations of that film were expressed through more than two dozen portraits.
Seeing the pair of Adidas sneakers made for «The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou» was a particular high point since in addition to not being for sale, after research I found that I can in fact buy them online (
). The majority of the artwork was dedicated to the Tenenbaums with Steve Zissou, «Rushmore» and «The Grand Budapest Hotel» taking up the rear. There were some small pieces dedicated to Bottle Rocket, but nothing significant. The Friday tickets were $ 15 but by Sunday the gallery was accepting walk-​ins and my free ticket was unnecessary. The show itself was a small, cute diversion but I did not buy anything as I know me and nothing I purchased be hung on the wall or worn. However, for the man who showed up as one of Steve Zissou’s sailors, this was a fanboy’s dream.