Michael Saviello
Michael Saviello has been the manager at the iconic East Village barbershop, Astor Place Hairstylists, for nearly 40 years. All this time, he’s had a passion for art, but never pursued formal training. With the responsibilities of college, business, marriage and family, art was far from his mind for many years.
One day, Mike was inspired by a photo he took on a lunch date with his wife, realizing it could be a perfect first portrait to use to return to painting. Soon after, it was nearly unbelievable fortune that Mike found a large, high-quality canvas outside the barbershop.
Since then, he has not looked back. Mike paints every day during his lunch break in the back of Astor Place, sometimes with a bottle of wine, sometimes to melodies of jazz. His style is influenced by impressionism and realism with a powerful infusion of popular culture. Mike believes: art is life.
