The Victim, 1988
Wax Oil Drawing
The Victim (Self Portrait), 1988 “This early wax oil drawing was what I considered my first serious art creation. It is a portrait of myself on my college bed with my legs sticking out at the bottom, my hands in the act of drawing the picture & a montage of all the brands & things that were in my dorm room at NYU back then. I spent a month working on this piece which was longer than any other project I had worked on up to that point in my life. It’s amazing to look at this now, over 30 years later & remember what my life was like back then & what I consumed & used at the time. The poster is rare & out of print, with only about 25 left from the original edition of 1,000. A limitedition Archival Giclee on paper or canvas is availabale for purchase as well.” M A

Sir Real Red Apple Man, 1994
Wax Oil Drawing 2" X 2", September 1994
Sir Real Red Apple Man, 1994 “This wax oil drawing was one of the first characters I created for the brand of fruit juices I founded in 1993. For each flavor there was a different fruit head with an eye wearing a tuxedo & sporting a bowler hat. The Red Apple Man was originally featured on bottles of organic apple juice & today can be found on jars of Apple Sauce & Apple Butter that I still make & sell under the Sir Real Brand. The original drawing on museum board is only 2” X 2” in size!” M A

Sir Real Lemon Man
Silkscreen Limitedition
Sir Real Lemon Man 1995

Portrait of An American Classic, March 30, 1996
Original Cereal Box Collage
The Birth of Cerealism / Frosted Flakes #1 (Portrait of an American Classic), March 30, 1996, 9” X 12”, Cereal box collage on legal pad cardboard. The original art is in a private collection in St.Louis, Missouri, USA “This is the first collage I ever made using a cereal box cover, or any consumer packaging for that matter. It was the beginning of a whole new phase of my art. After this, I decided to try & create many of these “portraits” of a whole array of “famous” and “classic” products. Over the course of several years I made hundreds (if not thousands) of these types of collages, which I later started calling ‘Cerealism’, but this was the first and therefore often refer to it as, ‘The Birth of Cerealism’. This collage actually changed the course of my life, or at least marks the exact point at which I began a whole new phase of my art & life.”
M A

Cheerios / Identical Twins, 8598
Cerealism / Identical Twins #1 8598
Cheerios Identical Twins #1 August 1998 “After creating my first ‘Cerealism’ collage (Frosted Flakes #1 above), I began a phase where I would deconstruct & then reconstruct the covers of cereal box brands & then later all sorts of consumer brand packages in printed cardboard boxes. Within 3-4 years I had created over 700 original cereal box collages & close to 500 other brands including cookies, crackers, soda, rice, oat meal & many others. I thought it interesting how we could almost instantly recognize the brands no matter how abstracted I had made them. And I thought they were beautiful to look at. Almost like Jackson Pollack meets Andy Warhol and Picasso! This unusual set of two collages created in August of 1998 featured two of the same exact Cheerios boxes all cut up into a pile of pieces & then composed into 2 separate but very similar individual cereal box cover collages.” M A

Cheerios on Black Identical Twins #2 August 5, 1998 “This is is the second of the Identical Twins Cheerios Box collages created in San Diego in August 1998.” M A

Lucky Charms 122798
Cerealism Collage
Cereal Box Cover Collage / Lucky Charms created on December 27, 1998 One of the over seven hundred in Albert’s transformative “Cerealism” series of collages created between 1996-2001

Quisp Cereal 32920
Cerealism Collage
Quisp Cereal Box Collage created on March 29, 2020 is one of Albert’s Retro Cerealisms featuring the cover of the classic, iconic Quisp Brand that was popular during Albert’s childhood in the 1970s.

Froot Loops 112497
Cerealism / Froot Loops 'Cover Version' Collage
This Cover of a Froot Loops Box was created on November 24, 1997

Trix Cerealism Collage 1997
Trix Cereal Box Collage (Squares) created on January 4, 1997

Peanut Butter Cap'N Crunch 1197
Cerealism Collage
Peanut Butter Cap’N Crunch Cereal Box Collage created on January 1, 1997

Rice Krispies
Cerealism Collage
Rice Krispies (Squares) Cerealism Collage 1998

American Flag

Empire State Building
Photo Collage

The Last Breakfast 2001

Love (Pink) 2002
C'Andy Warhol series
LOVE (Pink), 2002 / Pop Cubist “Portrait” of a Strawberry Charleston Chew package created in 2002 as part of Albert’s C’Andy Warhol series that was featured at Albert’s One Man Show at Dylan’s Candy Bar in NYC in Spring 2003. The original collage was a collage created with the box that was used to merchandise the candy bars & a fine art canvas was produced 30″ on the long side in a limitedition.

York Peppermint Patty 2002
C'Andy Warhol series
York Peppermint Patty, 2002 from Albert’s C
Andy Warhol series. This image was debuted at Albert’s One Man Show at Dylan’s Candy Bar in 2002-2003

Etude (Candy Logos A to Z) 2002
Etude (Candy Logos A to Z) is an original 32″ X 40″ collage created in 2002. It is a montage of candy & gum brand logos arranged alphabetically on an 8-ply acid-free white museum board. After being displayed at Dylan’s Candy Bar as the centerpiece of Albert’s one-man show, it was originally in the collection of John & Carmen Fernandez and then Paul & Abby Fernandez in New Jersey. It is now back in the artist’s collection.
This image is available for sale as a limitedition offset poster as well as a fine art print on archival rag paper with archival ink.

You Know What They Say, 2003
First All Text Collage
You Know What They Say, 2003 “After putting the messages in the top portion of “The Last Breakfast” collage in 2001, I had the idea to make a collage that was all messages. This was my first in that series & it involved several months of ‘collecting’ a list of phrases, proverbs & idioms that I felt conveyed wisdom before spending nearly 3 months making the 20” X 32” collage construction. These phrases when uttered by people are often preceded with the phrase, ‘You know what they say’!” M A

The Gettysburg Address

Grand Central Terminal
Photo Collage

I Am He
Lyric Collage
‘I Am The Walrus’, 2004 “In 2004 I began creating smaller scale collages featuring bits of text from history, literature, religious writings & song lyrics. I have continued to this day to read & listen carefully to identify sayings & quotes that are particularly interesting & meaningful to me. In this case, I spent a good amount of time listening to The Beatles & ended up choosing two lyrics that I thought represented their finest poetry and philosophy. This collage is the opening lyric from the song ‘I Am The Walrus’. I’ve also done numerous collages of another famous Beatles lyric, ‘All You Need is Love’ ”. M A

The New Colossus
The New Colossus (Statue of Liberty), 2004 “This rare poster was one of my early history & poetry inspired collages that I started creating after ‘The Gettysburg Address’. It is also a girl power piece and as you can see along the bottom, Lady Liberty, the central figure, is surrounded by the 12 female apostles all chosen from iconic consumer brands.” M A

The Signing of the Declaration of Independence

To Be Or Not To Be

The Preamble

N0
No, 2008 “This was an idea that came to me in 2008. I always loved the story about how John Lennon & Yoko Ono met; that John had attended an art exhibition of Yoko’s and there was an interactive artwork where the viewer had to climb a ladder & then look through a magnifying glass at a tiny word written on the ceiling. That word was ‘Yes’ & I had the idea of spelling out the word as many times & with as many fonts as possible and then I put one tiny ‘No’ (which was very John Lennon-like) that I hid in the overall composition. This has become one of my most popular images. Can you find the ‘No’?” M A

Map of the USA
Word Map
Map of the USA, 2008 “Inspired by Jasper Johns’ famous Map painting, I had the idea to use the materials I had been using for famous text and apply it to the idea of a Map. I put all the states, capitals, and other well known places in geographical order and worked on this 28 X 36” original work for close to 500 hours over a several month period. I have since made several other maps including the World, Manhattan, New York State, Long Island (where I grew up), Westchester County, NY (where I live now) & Pennsylvania, among others. A one thousand piece puzzle was made of this image that was in many stores all over the USA a few years back” M A

All You Need is Love
All You Need is Love, 2008 “This lyric collage is a result of an in-depth study of the Beatles I made. I didn’t have to listen to all of their music (although I did!) to know this was one the defining lyrics of their immense body of work. It pretty much says it all. This is a limit edition Giclee print on paper that was printed in an edition of 49 for a show I had at a gallery in Red Bank, New Jersey.” M A

Map of Manhattan
Word Maps
Map of Manhattan, 2008 “After creating my first Map of the USA, which featured states, capitals & other well known cities & landmarks, I started on this 32” X 40” collage street Map of Manhattan which took me over 6 months to complete. It features streets, avenues, bridges, tunnels, museums, and sections of the city as well as other details. I never realized how many famous places there are in New York City! If you Google, “Michael Albert Map of Manhattan 2009”, you will find an article in the NY Times about me & this particular collage.” M A

Words (Aspirations)

The Number Pi (777 Digits)

The Quality of Mercy
Shakespeare Inspired Collage
Mercy, 2010 “I created this 20” X 32” collage of the famous passage from Shakespeare’s play, ‘The Merchant of Venice’ when I found out that it was to be performed in NYC’s Shakespeare in the Park with Al Pacino. I was going to create this print & give them out for free to theater goers, but it ended up taking too long to finish & wasn’t completed in time. I printed it anyway & added it to my selection of Limitedition prints.” M A

Rainbow
Color Studies
Rainbow, 2011 “In 2011 I began creating a series of rainbows & spectrums of color by cutting pieces of various color from the consumer brand packages I had been working with & arranging them according to R-O-Y-G-B-I-V. Over the years I’ve developed several other what I call “Color-based themes” including Hearts, Flags, Flowers & Trees (or ‘Brandscapes’), Abstracts and depictions of things like fish (whales) & musical instruments (guitars) which are also on display here. This is a good example of one of my first ‘Rainbow’ collages.” M A

Sunflowers
Brandscapes
Sunflowers, 2012 “This color based “Brandscape” collage is also made from the packages of famous consumer brand packages. You can see how I left a bunch of clues as to where the pieces may have come from. I was inspired by Warhol’s flowers which are not realistic & thought I would try to create landscapes & nature scenes in my own way using my medium of choice. FYI, I also love the flowers of Georgia O’Keeffe, Claude Monet & Vincent Van Gogh!” M A

Red Heart
Color Study

Map of the World
Word Maps

The 19th Amendment (2021)
History Based Works

Animalism, 2007
Animalism, 2007. 32” x 40”

Dark Star, 2007
Photo collage
Dark Star / Grateful Dead photo collage 2007 photos taken by Michael Moskowitz at Grateful Dead concert in New Haven, Connecticut Spring Tour May 1977

The Ballad of Tony the Tiger
The Ballad of Tony the Tiger / Original Collage size 20” x 32”

Cityscape #4
Cityscape #4

You Are What You crEATe 2019
You Are What You crEATe, 2019 Original Collage
