Rose is known as the co-director of Beautiful Losers, a film that focuses on an art movement which includes artists such as Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Steven "Espo" Powers, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine and Shepard Fairey.

The ground zero of the zeitgeist where there is no substantive difference between any creative medium- and a way of translating and articulating this opaque ephemeral vernacular into a concrete visual language..." Alleged Gallery eventually grew to have branches in New York City and Tokyo.

[3] The book is based on the Alleged Gallery and the 1990s underground art scene in New York where he collected visuals and testimony from over 100 artists including Mark Gonzales, Ed Templeton, Thomas Campbell, Phil Frost, Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Sonic Youth, Terry Richardson.

In 2009, After the release of Beautiful Losers, Rose directed a short-form documentary called Become a Microscope - 90 Statements on Sister Corita, with original music by Money Mark and Becky Stark.

In 2019 he directed a short documentary Hamburger Eyes which focuses on a tight-knit community of street photographers in San Francisco dedicated to capturing both the unseen and iconic moments of everyday life.

[15] His 2021 exhibition "Suitcase City" at The Lodge in Los Angeles saw the artist transform the gallery into a makeshift luggage store, where he created custom wallpaper and built displays from recycled retail fixtures he purchased from junkyards.

Working with a small team, the program has partnered with school districts in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Melbourne, Tokyo and Miami, now having held over fifty[17] creative workshops in cities worldwide, In late 2011, Rose co-authored (with Brian Roettinger and Mandy Kahn) "Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century Identity Crisis," a book of criticism published by Swiss company JRP-Ringier.

[18] Rose's essay for the book, titled "The Death of Subculture" has been described as an impassioned call to arms, urging the next generation of artists to end the collage era by adopting a philosophy of creative innovation.

Rose's publishing imprint Alleged Press has released books featuring the art of Ari Marcopoulos, Ed Templeton, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, and Gusmano Cesaretti.

[20] Rose's journalism writings have been published in Index, i-D, Dazed and Confused, Self Service, L'Officiel Hommes, Kaleidoscope, Flash Art, and Purple where he is an editor at large.