Michael Anderson is in a group show at Marlborough Chelsea until May 29th, 2010.

Michael Anderson is in a group show at The Butcher’s Daughter in Detroit.

The New York Times reports on Michael Andersons Times Square Target billboard that will eventually become Anna Sui tote bags.

More info over at Marlborough Gallery.

Graffiti takes something that already exists, the street, public property, architecture, and adds to it. It’s public work in its purest form and therefore can be taken and added to by the public. I see the Ace Hotel as more an homage rather than a proud display of a “fanbot’s” collection.

Read the full article about Michael Anderson’s Ace Hotel lobby piece  in Whitewall Magazine.

The exhibition will consist of twelve new collages and a single sculpture, all of which are comprised of mass-produced advertising materials accumulated by the artist. Born in the Bronx in 1968, Mr. Anderson began his artistic career fusing painting and collage but has concentrated on collage since the early 1990s. Since that time his materials have consisted solely of posters and billboards found on the streets of international cities and physically torn down by the artist. In each work, multiple copies of the same advertisement are ripped into hundreds of varying pieces and reassembled into dynamic compositions that reflect the artist’s simultaneous commitments to representation and abstraction. The effect is one of vague recognition by the viewer, who has undoubtedly passed several of the images while walking down the streets of New York, Beijing or Rome, without stopping to focus on their cultural significance or aesthetic properties.

Download the full Collage Geomancy Press Release

Micheal Anderson is featured in the Marlborough Chelsea Summer Exhibition.
It runs through September 5th.

Michael Anderson is now showing at Marlborough Madrid.

“Media Violence”

Marlborough Chelsea

December 13, 2007–January 5, 2008

The Directors of Marlborough Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition by the New York City-based collage artist, Michael Anderson. This is Anderson’s debut exhibition with the gallery and will be held from Thursday, December 13 to Saturday, January 5 at the new Marlborough Chelsea, located at 545 West 25th Street.

The exhibition will consist of one sculpture and 15 of the artist’s signature collages made from international street posters. In creating these visually arresting assemblages of varying scale, Anderson first accumulates thousands of torn posters from cultural locations such as Berlin, Mexico City, Naples, Rome and New York. They are then separated and sorted based on their subject matter, paper quality or aesthetic properties and eventually collaged in a painterly fashion to create works that Roberta Smith of  The New York Times called “dazzling mosaic-like images that fluctuate in optical pattern and cultural reference.”

An illustrated color catalogue of the show, with an essay by John Carlin, will be available at the time of the exhibition.