| Michael Anderson
Studio
Art & Illustration 
22 Howard Drive / Belleville, IL / 62223 Phone/Fax / 618 538 5622 email / mike@michaelandersonstudio.com This online portfolio showcases my commercial illustration work and fine art. It is organized by style, subject and media. Click on the listings below to view. Thank you for visiting michaelandersonstudio.com
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Michael
Anderson Studio illustrates architectural subjects for architects/engineers,
builder/developers & designers in a variety of media including pen
& ink, watercolor, markers, airbrush, color pencil & digital.
Clients also include public relations firms, advertising agencies as well
as individuals & businesses requiring visual presentations of
designs & concepts.
Studio software:
Michael Anderson's award winning paintings, drawings
and sculptures have been exhibited in galleries in St. Louis, Santa Fe
and San Francisco.
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Member:
Missouri Plein Air Painters Association
 Member:
Gateway East Artists Guild
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| BIOGRAPHY
MichaeI Anderson, b. Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1951, has been an artist, illustrator & designer for 30 years. Prior to establishing Michael Anderson Studio in 1983 he was employed as a display designer & a graphic artist. Collaboration with designers and architects to develop their ideas for themed environments and decorative arts in sketches, cad drawings and digital illustrations is a specialty. Recent professional experience includes completion of a series of conceptual sketches for a series of diverse projects & clients including the St. Louis Science Center, NASCAR Hall of Fame and Hoover Dam. Formal architectural renderings by Michael Anderson have been published in books, magazines and numerous ads, brochures and design presentations. Other corporate clients and projects include Six Flags Theme Parks, St. Louis Blues Hockey Club, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and St. Louis Cardinals. Works of art by Michael Anderson have been exhibited at Washington University, St. Louis, the St. Louis Artists Guild and are included in numerous personal collections as well as the permanent collections of Monsanto, Citicorp and the St. Louis Zoo. Awards include Gateway East Artists Guild Annual Exhibition “Best of Show” in 2004 and 2005. Michael Anderson is a member of the American Society
of Architectural Illustrators, St. Louis Creative Artisans Guild, Gateway
Pastel Artists and the Gateway East Artists Guild. His studio is located
in Belleville, IL where he also resides with his wife & two children.
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Michael Anderson
Born: Bartlesville, Oklahoma; February 17, 1951
Education
BFA with honors, Deans College Scholar; Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois, 1973
Biographical Information
1984–2005 Illustrator, designer;
Michael Anderson Studio, Belleville, IL
1982–1984 Illustrator, designer;
Anderson & Assoc., St. Louis, MO
1981-1982 President, Art Coordinating
Council for the Area, St. Louis, MO
1980-1982 Partner, Sutton Loop
Gallery; Hamilton, Anderson, Claycomb, Inc. Maplewood, MO
1977-1980 Graphic Designer,
Volz Engineering & Surveying, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Exhibitions
2004 The Art of Michael Anderson, Broadway Center
of Arts, Belleville, IL
2002 Recent Drawings, Barlow Design Gallery,
St. Louis, MO
Recent Drawings, Borders, Fairview Heights, IL
1981 Painting, Drawings, Sculpture, Sutton Loop
Gallery, Maplewood. MO
1979 Pastel/Charcoal Drawings, St. Louis County
Government Center, Clayton, MO
1973 Paintings/Watercolors, Southern Illinois
University, Edwardsville, IL
Group Exhibitions/Awards
2005 Best of Show,
Gateway East Artists Guild Annual Juried Exhibition, Belleville, IL
William & Florence Schmidt Art Center,
Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL
Works From The Missouri Plein Air Painters Association
Painting The
Parks, Estes Park Plein Air Event, Red Stallion Gallery,
Glen Haven, CO
Foundry Art Center,
St. Charles, MO, “Landscapes,” juried exhibition.
2004 Creative Art
Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Gateway Pastel Artists
Annual Exhibition, Honorable Mention
Best of Show, Gateway East Artists Guild Annual
Juried Exhibition, Belleville, IL
2002 Artworks Gallery/Fayette
County Museum, Vandalia, IL, “Watercolor 2002”
2001 Society of
Illustrators, New York, NY; Serbin Communications
slide showcase
1982 Artists Co-op
Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Group Invitational
St. Charles Artists’ Guild,
St. Charles, MO, juried exhibit
1981 Sutton Loop
Gallery, Maplewood, MO
Nanny Goat Hill Gallery,
San Francisco, CA ;Group Invitational,
Famous Barr Co,
St. Louis, MO, “Natural Forces”, sculpture invitational
1980 St. Louis Artists’
Guild, St. Louis, MO; “Acrylics(on Paper),
Watercolor, Pastel”,
Anonymous Prize For Pastel, Honorable Mention
St. Louis Artists’ Guild,
St. Louis, MO; “Oil, Sculpture, Collage & Acrylic”
Experience/Comissions
2005 Membership, Missouri Plein Air Painters
Association
Participant, Augusta Plein Air Event 2005, Augusta, MO
Participant, Painting The Parks, Estes Park Plein Air Event, Invitational
2004 Participant, Billyo O’Donnell, Plein Air
Workshop
2001 Volunteer, Belleville, Illinois Heritage
Society, designed public mural project
2000 Participant, Architecture in Watercolor-Workshop
with Tom Schaller, Kansas City, MO
1999 Independent study, travel sketches; Florence
& Milan, Italy
1992 Commission, St. Louis Zoological Park, sixteen
large scale painted animal images
for embellishment of acoustic panels for Lakeside Cafe
1990 Commission, Monsanto, artwork for corporate
residence, New York, NY
1982 Guest lecturer, Fine Arts Department, Southern
Illinois University-Carbondale
Juror, City Living Art Competition, St. Louis, MO
1981 Juror, “Annual High School Art Awards,”
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Grant recipient, St. Louis Arts & Humanities Commission, directed mural
project by high school students, Logos School, St. Louis
1980 Participant, “The Painted Fence,” mural
project, Old Post Office, St. Louis, MO
