Jake Anderson Company Profile

Here’s an art book that is unique, not only for its content but for the process used to collect the individual pieces. It’s a 300-page book of full-color graffiti images, gathered from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, USA, Scotland, Ireland and England. And this is not just any ordinary street art, it’s graffiti from the bathrooms of bars and cafés. Fittingly, the book is titled Off The Stall!: Unconventional Bathroom Graffiti. This unique project is being undertaken by Jake Anderson of Lexington, Mass, who insists that some of the world’s greatest art can be found in some of the world’s nastiest places. “I believe that bathroom graffiti is something to be valued,” says Anderson. “Not all of it, but a small minority is worthy of fine art and anthropological study. I’m specifically looking for graffiti that will make people laugh, think, or smile.”