For people who want to look
Gesso. Art that learns what moves you.
Largesso is a quiet, taste-driven art platform. Gesso, our art discovery mobile app, builds a private sense of your eye from the artwork you linger on, then surfaces work you would never have stumbled on yourself — from paintings, sculpture, and photography, to street murals and contemporary digital work, all drawn from museums, galleries, and independent artists.
For artists, galleries, collectors, and museums
Presso — a quiet desk for the work.
Presso is the companion web workbench for everyone who puts work in front of Gesso's audience — the artist with a body of work, the gallery with a program, the collector with pieces to show, the museum with a permanent collection. Upload the work, write the wall label, set the metadata. We carry the rest to Gesso, where viewers encounter it on the work's own terms.
By application. Presso opens in waves alongside Gesso.
Four desks, one wall.
Every account is reviewed before its work reaches Gesso. Here is who applies — and who decides.
A juried membership. Submit up to ten works; a panel of curators reviews every application by hand. Your work then enters a feed that runs on what viewers linger on, not on who paid to rank.
List the artists you represent and see who is looking for exactly what you show. Every work keeps its own wall label wherever it travels — and placement here is juried, never bought.
You spent years building a collection; Presso gives it a wall of its own, findable by the people who assemble shows. Every work still carries the hand that made it.
Help decide what the world gets to see. Jurors grab applications, review the work, and vote — from the phone. The work first, the CV after.
Applying starts with photographs of the work. How to photograph your artwork.
What we believe
An audience for the work, on the work's own terms.
Discovery is the point.
Gesso doesn't reward popularity. It pays attention to what you linger on — the shape of your eye — and uses that to surface work you would not have stumbled on yourself.
Attribution stays intact.
Every work carries its artist, title, year, and source. Wherever a piece travels in the app, the wall label travels with it. Nothing is anonymous; nothing is uncredited.
Slowness is a feature.
The pace is set by you and by the work. The longer you linger, the more the catalog opens. Time is the only metric.