Gallery Hours are Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm
Fridays Open until 7pm 
 
 www.gatewaygallery.net
 

Magdalena,  
oil on canvas board, 12" x 24",  Michael Anderson, 2006 
 
 
 

Conversation, shown right, will be available for purchase in a silent auction format . 

Conversation,  
oil on canvas board, 8" x 10",  Michael Anderson, 2006 
 
 
 

The works,  chosen by  a vote of  GEAG membership, are in various media including sculpture, mixed media, watercolor and oils. Proceeds from the sale of the works benefit GEAG and a commission will be paid to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. The works are donated to GEAG by the artists who receive a complimentary membership to GEAG in 2007. Other artists receiving the award are David Cornell, Sue Lowry, Rebecca McDannold,  and Debbie Williams. 

Summer/Fall Schedule 

Michael Anderson will be exhibiting recent works in oils at the venues shown at right. Click on the links for times, directions and  more info. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Painting Kiefer Creek , right, to appear in event advertising in September, Southwest Art.

Michael Anderson has been selected as a participating artist in the juried Estes Park Plein Air Event 2005. Painters are required to work a minimum of three days in August within a 100 mile radius of Estes Park, Colorado in order to exhibit in one of four sponsor galleries. Michael's work will be shown at the Red Stallion Gallery in nearby Glen Haven through September 30. 
http://www.estesarts.com/PleinAirArtists.htm  
 
 

Lauren Reading 
11" x 14", oil on canvas board, 2005 
 
 

Michael Anderson demonstrated plein air painting from a model at the West Belleville Promotional Event at the Arcades on Sunday, July 31. The street fair featured art displays, live music, food & wine.

BELLEVILLE, IL-- With deft, vivid strokes of green, blue and yellow oils on canvas, artist Michael Anderson created a tableau that impressed internationally renowned painter Billyo O'Donnell. O'Donnell was the judge and jury Saturday at the Gateway East Artist's Guild and Exhibition. And so impressed was he with Anderson's painting, "Feeding the Ducks" -- an impressionistic scene showing a family tossing food at ducks approaching a gushing Tower Grove fountain -- O'Donnell awarded Anderson the coveted blue ribbon signifying "Best of Show." Anderson, a celebrated professional artist in his own right , provided one of the 140 entries in the guild's biggest exhibit ever.

An oil painting entitled Creek, Spring, 2005 by Michael Anderson has been accepted into "Landscapes" at the Foundry Art Center, 520 North Main Street Center, St. Charles, MO. The exhibition runs from May 27 to July 15, 2005. The show was judged by artist Bryan Haynes.

Michael Anderson was one of 80 artists participating in the Augusta Plein Air Event 2005 in Augusta, Missouri. The ten day event concluded April 30 with an awards/auction and sale. 

Photo: Joan Dietrich

Michael Anderson was the featured sketch artist at a Valentines event at the Mont Blanc Boutique at  Plaza Frontenac, February 10. Michael exhibited four paintings and his sketch books. He drew sketches with the Mont Blanc Leonardo da Vinci Sketch Pen for boutique customers and invited guests. 
 

Honorable Mention Award 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mary Ellen Shortland knows good art when she sees it. After all she's a St. Louis gallery owner with 30 years of experience. Shortland recently lent a helping hand to artists in the Gateway Pastel Society. Her Creative Art Gallery is featuring the 4th annual GPA juried exhibition. "The richness and depth of color you can get with pastel is stunning and amazing. It stands on its own, " said Shortland. Artists use a variety of techniques and perspectives. For instance, Michael Anderson's "Aunt Betty's Cow" has a white fence, a barn and green pasture with little lines of blue, green, orange, black and white. "It is a differeent technique, it's kind of light hearted and fun," said Shortland, "kind of like van Gogh with pastels." The pastel pieces were judged by Douglas Dawson, an artist instructor at the Art Students League in Denver and member of the American Watercolor Society and the Pastel Society of America.