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“Without Rules” includes a piece by Detroit- and Chicago-based artist Scott
Reeder and a trio by California artist Robert Larson (above, left) and Robert
Rauschenberg’s Horsefeathers Thirteen - VIII, 1972 (above, right).
so much that they continued with it,
eventually participating in online auc-
tions.
“Not only does our art include works
by artists whose names people have
heard of, it also includes student art
from the College for Creative Studies,
Cranbrook and Michigan State,” says
Alan, whose favorite piece is always the
last piece added, now Sweet Tweet, a Tim
Hawkinson bronze sculpture of a small
child with birds.
“We support graduate students, and we
go to the new galleries that are opening in
Detroit and Hamtramck. The works don’t
have to be expensive to be attractive.”
Rebecca’s favorite piece is a print by
Jean DuBuffet.
“It has sentimental value,” she says.
“It wasn’t our first piece; we started with
ceramics. It was our first wall piece. It’s an
abstract print in red, white and blue.”
The Rosses have become regulars at the
well-known art shows across the country.
Alan compares the Armory Art Show in
New York to a Broadway show in theater.
“When the Armory Art Show occurs,
there are secondary and third-market
shows, like off-Broadway and off-off
Broadway theater,” he says. “We see the
Armory exhibit as well as 15 other exhib-
its all over Manhattan, where there are
displays of work created by artists who
don’t have the money and the power to
get into bigger shows.”
He suggests that Metro Detroiters
interested in starting their own collec-
tions visit Expo Chicago in the fall.
“It has fabulous galleries from around
the world,” Alan says. “You can see private
collections. The more you see, the more
you learn.”
He also loves visiting known art sites
online.
“I click and click and click, and I get
sucked in,” he says.
The Rosses list a number of Jewish art-
ists — local and distant — as represented
in their holdings: duct-tape painter
Tirtzah Bassel, sculptor Magdalena
Abakanowicz, industrial-designer Ron
Arad, painter Marcia Freedman and
sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Alan’s Jewish identity was in part
instilled through membership at Temple
Israel, where he had his bar mitzvah. His
maternal grandfather, Max Gross, who
fled Germany after Kristallnacht, drew
maps of that country for the United States
Army during World War II, helping with
fighting strategy.
“Alan is super-creative mechanically
and structurally,” Rebecca says. “He’s
made several pieces of furniture for our
home in his full workshop.
“Collecting relaxes us and gives us
a creative outlet. It’s kind of a nurtur-
ing outlook. Alan runs Gallagher Fire
Equipment, a fire suppression company,
and I handle the payables. The business is
very focused, and we get away from that
world with art.”
Alan agrees. “There are no rules, no
price points and no right or wrong in col-
lecting,” he says. “Every collector eventu-
ally has to go from zero to one — from
no art to one piece. Any decision a collec-
tor makes is not a bad decision.
“Each piece is liked for a reason and
bought for that reason. I can’t think of
one piece we are sorry we bought, but
there are pieces we are sorry we didn’t
buy.”
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