Sculpture · Two-D / Three-D
Graylin Anderson
Fiberboard portraits that step out of the frame. A new vocabulary of sculpture — Skinny Face & Dual Image — for the figures who shaped music, sport and culture.
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Sculpture · Two-D / Three-D
Fiberboard portraits that step out of the frame. A new vocabulary of sculpture — Skinny Face & Dual Image — for the figures who shaped music, sport and culture.
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The Artist
Graylin Anderson is a sculptor and U.S. Army veteran based in Austin, Texas, originally from New Orleans. He began studying Fine Arts at Southern University A&M College in Baton Rouge in the spring of 1985 — a path he didn't expect to take. Walking past a studio door one afternoon, he glanced through the glass and saw the late, distinguished sculptor Frank Hayden Sr. carving a larger-than-life figure out of stone. He had planned to become a meteorologist. He chose sculpture instead.
At Southern University he studied under three figures who shaped his hand: Frank Hayden Sr., and metal sculptors Al LaVergne and Martin Payton. Out of that lineage Anderson developed a signature freehand approach he calls Skinny Face & Dual Image — fiberboard portraits compressed into graphic, flag-like silhouettes that step partially out of the frame.
Each piece is unique. There is no edition; the materials and the cut decide the work.
The Work
Portraits of four figures — Dizzy Gillespie, Malcolm X, Miles Davis, Michael Jordan — in Anderson's Skinny Face & Dual Image vocabulary. Tap any work and place it in your own room in augmented reality. See all work →
Artistic Approach
Anderson works directly on fiberboard wood, carving silhouettes by hand without templates. The material is forgiving enough to hold detail and dense enough to step partially out of its own frame — a flatness that refuses to stay flat.
Each portrait reads as graphic image and as object simultaneously. The face stays compressed into a flag-like profile while a single element — a trumpet bell, a basketball pose — pushes forward into the viewer's space.
No editions, no reproductions. Each work is carved once, by hand, and exists only in the form you see. The cut and the wood decide what the portrait becomes.
Artistic Lineage
Frank Hayden Sr. — the late, distinguished mixed-media sculptor whose work spans civil-rights memorials across Louisiana. Al LaVergne and Martin Payton — metal sculptors whose freehand discipline shaped a generation at Southern University A&M College.
From their studios, Anderson took one lesson above all others: the figure is decided in the cut, not in the drawing. Skinny Face & Dual Image is what came out of forty years of carrying that lesson forward.
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