The Art Stores That Made Me Feel Like an Artist
Anthony Scarzafava remembers buying his first drawing table and oil paints, then discovering Pearl Paint and New York City’s vanished art-supply stores.
The Silver Surfer and the Artist I Became
Anthony Scarzafava remembers discovering comic books after moving to Staten Island and explains how the Silver Surfer, the Vision, and Black Bolt helped shape the artist he became.
Learning to Be an Artist in Mike Malpass’s Weld Shop
Anthony Scarzafava looks back on studying welded sculpture with Michael Malpass at Pratt Institute from 1981 to 1983, remembering the weld shop, his mentor, and the lessons that shaped his life as an artist.
Murder at the Farmhouse
Dylan Scarzafava chooses three of his father’s paintings for a misty-forest bedroom and imagines a mysterious story of deep reds, chaos, and a farmhouse hidden in the woods.
A Piece of My Life in B48
Dylan Scarzafava tells how part of a dismantled STAX SR-009 electrostatic headphone became embedded in Anthony Scarzafava’s B48 series.
New Show Opening October 26, 2023: B48
B48: New Paintings opens October 26 at Galo Space in New York — a new body of work built from decades of collected materials, photographs, and everyday ephemera.