Fresh off his Most Beautiful Swiss Books award for 'A Few of My Favorites,' the artist Armando Alleyne caught up with his Michael A. Cummings about Basquiat and chance encounters on the New York City subway 🏙️
was awarded the Most Beautiful Swiss Books award, an honor bestowed by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture for notable achievements in book design. The celebration continues with a
ALLEYNE: My sister and brothers, my older sisters, they encouraged me to be what I want to be. My father admitted he would love it if I were a doctor or lawyer or a surgeon. My mom encouraged me as time passed. But at first she was also like my father, in that she wanted me to be an architect, engineer, doctor, something along that line, more of a professional type.ALLEYNE: Well, the thing that occurred when I was in high school, I went to City-As-School, and I thought of taking drafting.
I remember you as tall, skinny and very curious, serious and interested in what was going on. And that was not common. A lot of students and people came in, came in and ran out real quick. That was just a little side thing they had to do. But you really want to apply yourself and get into learning about things. And that impressed me a lot about you.
ALLEYNE: [Laughs] But when I branched out, I decided I wanted to also collect art and collect and create art and be known for art. And I started thinking about what my style was going to be like.ALLEYNE: City College pushed on me. Abstract, okay. That seems to be like the flows, the current flows, the times, the 70s—the abstract. Even though I had done basic and realistic drawing, when I started dealing with painting, I dealt with abstract.
CUMMINGS: So in your book, in addition to all the portraits of musicians, you have a lot of series… there’s a series I like called. Let me tell you, it reminds me so much of Jacob Lawrence’s paintings. But you have a little cat at the bottom of the composition. I can see the blues and the isolation but then you put a little pet in there! The company for that individual.
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