He is an art director, editor, illustrator, photographer, film producer, director and painter.
He was a senior designer for the 1968 Olympics held in Mexico City. He art directed such diverse publications as Esquire, Family Health, NY Scenes, and National Lampoon.
As a partner in the graphic design firm, Pellegrini Kaestle and Gross his clients included Merrill Lynch, Jim Henson, Simon and Schuster, Random House, Columbia Records, ABC television, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and The Smithsonian in Washington, DC. He was also Design Director for Mobil Oil Corp. while in New York.
After moving to Los Angeles in 1980, he produced films and television.
His feature film producing credits include Heavy Metal (art director and associate producer), Ghostbusters (assoc. prod.), Ghostbusters II, Twins, Beethoven, Legal Eagles, Kindergarten Cop, and Dave, (all as producer or executive producer) His television credits as a producer include The Real Ghostbusters (ABC), Beethoven (CBS), and the prime time pilot, The First Gentleman for CBS.
He also designed much of the advertising for those projects and designed the famous “no ghost” logo for Ghostbusters.
Michael has sat on the board of Pratt Institute, taught at The School of Visual Arts NY, and lectured at dozens of universities and professional organizations.
He is currently living and working in Oceanside, Ca. where he has been with the exhibition department and curating for the Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA).
Available for script and media consulting and looking for a university level teaching position
(a class or two)
in the San Diego area. (Contact MG)
Also available for Lectures
His awards range from National Magazine
Award from Columbia University
to the Peoples Choice award. He has been
nominated for Four Emmys (SCTV, The Real Ghostbusters, and other animated
specials). He has one Golden Globe nomination and over 125 design awards
throughout the world for his art direction. One
of his Mexican Olympics posters is in a collection at MOMA, NY.as well
as The Olympics Museum in Zurich. He has a politcal cartoon in The Smithsonian.
and a painting exhibited at The San Diego Museum of Natural History.
He has exhibited and curated at
The Oceanside Museum of Art
The exhibition of his paintings
at
OMA
Glenis (Wootton) Gross, beloved wife of 40 years passed away on Nov.22nd 2006. She is SO loved and missed.
