Studio Visit: Michael Anderson's Wild Collages On Beautiful/Decay (PHOTOS)

Studio Visit: Michael Anderson's Wild Collages On Beautiful/Decay

One of the highlights for me during the last couple months was hearing Michael Anderson shut down a pessimistic discussion about "no new types of painting." His booming voice broke the ennui in the room with: "The future is really enormous and there must be at least 9 million new kinds of painting to be made." Michael is optimistic, and his art is too. He was cool enough to let us into his studio, the Harlem Collage Shop, to check out what he is up to. Using street posters and billboards gathered in NYC and other major cities around the world, Anderson makes super-sized collages, commonly 8 x 8 feet and up. He collects the posters at night, which seems like a dangerous thing to do, but he's a big guy and didn't seem to give a shit, just citing his birthplace as the Bronx.

Beautiful/Decay Studio Visit: Michael Anderson

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