Cerealism on Display Featuring Michael Albert

Pop artist Michael Albert has been making art since his college days at NYU, where he studied business. He became interested in art after visiting museums in NY and began his own artistic pursuits. After 7 years of drawing, he began an exploration of collage. His first collages were inspired by the need to use materials he had no other practical use for, including old labels & the leftover stickers. Soon he began to use the extra photos he had accumulated to create ‘cubist-type’ collage portraits of family & friends. One day, due to his reluctance to throw away a Frosted Flakes cereal box, Albert created his first ‘Modern Pop Artwork‘, a collage he titled, ‘Portrait of an American Classic’. This led to a series of these ‘Pop Cubist’ portraits of famous brands, including a collection of over 500 original Cereal box collages alone. Albert describes the Cereal Box collages, see example at left, which he calls ‘Cerealism’, as “a cross between Picasso’s Cubism and Warhol’s Pop."  All original art is handmade without the use of computers.