Art Bites

  Michael Angelo Gagliardi was born in New York City in 1962 to Irish and Italian Parents.  He grew up living in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island, where he attended Msgr. Farrell High School.  He received a B.F.A. in painting and sculpture and a M.A. in Theatrical Design from C.W. College of Long Island University in 1985.  Michael Angelo sold his first painting in a bar on St Mark’s Place at the tender age of 17.  He is eternally grateful for not being carded that day.  Upon graduating college MA moved back to NYC where he kept studios in the East Village then Williamsburg Brooklyn.  Though finding his own path artistically, he is still to this day influenced by the Neo-Expressionist style.  Making a living in the NYC off Broadway theatre scene MA learned to be a scenic artist and stage craftsperson.  He never stopped making his own art showing mostly at that time in the smaller East Village Galleries.  Along with a group o...