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Back Talk: A conversation with Anthony Lister
Monday July 11, 2011 |
 Jumping off and on a Sydney-Brooklyn continuum, Street Artist and fine artist Anthony Lister makes his own tangential badass path into contorted experimentation, whether it is beat poet metal music, family home theatre, super heroes gone awry, or the warping asymmetry of a plastic surgery glamour puss 18 feet in diameter on the street. Skipping past your boundaries, Lister employs stories throughout his work, the painter/ sculptor/ toy maker races back to your childhood games and comic action heroes with blurry imagination and a wink and a kick; diverting into grown-up desires that are illustrated with finely drawn lines, demonic masks, luscious boobies and smeared lipstick everywhere. ~ Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, Brooklyn Street Art
1. One reason you make art: To make beautiful things that I fall in love with.
"Being Stanley Kubrick"
Be infected with radiation and become a mutant with super powers.
Berlin
You got the cup - I got the guts.
I listen to classical music mostly.
Backstabbers and shit talkers.
The abuse of animals in slaughterhouses in Indonesia.
The ones that do it for love and discovery.
You can have it all, but not all at once.
The b-52's. Mozart piano sonatas vol.3, k.279.
Touch myself in private areas.
My wheelchair.
Walking again.
When painting became problem solving.
Obtuse theories.
The color of my skin.
Having children and YES.
That going to jail sucks.
Space travel and landscape studies.
You can see Anthony Lister’s work in the new group show, “Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Stories” Curated by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, founders of Brooklyn Street Art In collaboration with ThinkSpace Gallery Opens at C.A.V.E. Gallery, Friday August 12th 6-10pm Runs until September 4th C.A.V.E. Gallery  Related Articles
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