5pm – In Conversation With Michael Netter
Speaker: Michael Netter
Dialog: For more than 40 years, Michael Netter has been creating video art, paintings, and assemblages. A self-taught artist, and protégé of Andy Warhol, he was fully immersed in the dynamic art world of New York City in the early 1970s.
In 1970, at age 22, Netter bought the Sony Portopak, the world’s first portable video system. From a family of Hollywood moviemakers, Netter was no stranger to the power of storytelling and the moving image. Soon after Netter was introduced to Andy Warhol by his good friend and Interview Magazine editor, Bob Colacello. From 1970 to 1973 Michael worked with Warhol and shot 200 videos of Factory superstars Joe Dallesandro, Jane Forth, Candy Darling, Brigid Polk, also events like David Bowie’s first visit to Warhol’s Factory, and celebrities including actor Dennis Hopper at the Chelsea Hotel and fashion designer Halston to name a few.
During those formative years in the Factory, Netter continued to paint and while Warhol encouraged him, by 1973 Netter left the world of Warhol and, as a painter, went underground.
Over the next three decades, continuing to paint, Michael Netter simultaneously built a successful corporate consulting practice. Capitalizing on his artistic background, Netter developed logo designs, branding strategies, and product innovations for Verizon, United Artists, Coca-Cola, Merrill Lynch, Kraft, Chase Bank, American Express, and other companies.
Dialog: For more than 40 years, Michael Netter has been creating video art, paintings, and assemblages. A self-taught artist, and protégé of Andy Warhol, he was fully immersed in the dynamic art world of New York City in the early 1970s.
In 1970, at age 22, Netter bought the Sony Portopak, the world’s first portable video system. From a family of Hollywood moviemakers, Netter was no stranger to the power of storytelling and the moving image. Soon after Netter was introduced to Andy Warhol by his good friend and Interview Magazine editor, Bob Colacello. From 1970 to 1973 Michael worked with Warhol and shot 200 videos of Factory superstars Joe Dallesandro, Jane Forth, Candy Darling, Brigid Polk, also events like David Bowie’s first visit to Warhol’s Factory, and celebrities including actor Dennis Hopper at the Chelsea Hotel and fashion designer Halston to name a few.
During those formative years in the Factory, Netter continued to paint and while Warhol encouraged him, by 1973 Netter left the world of Warhol and, as a painter, went underground.
Over the next three decades, continuing to paint, Michael Netter simultaneously built a successful corporate consulting practice. Capitalizing on his artistic background, Netter developed logo designs, branding strategies, and product innovations for Verizon, United Artists, Coca-Cola, Merrill Lynch, Kraft, Chase Bank, American Express, and other companies.
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