Roy Lerner

Roy Lerner (born 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an internationally exhibited American painter.[1]

Lerner attended Franconia College where he studied with the artist Peter Bradley. Early in his career Lerner was a gallery assistant to the British sculptor Anthony Caro.[2] In 1987 he exhibited in a group exhibition the Fall Invitational at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut with Ross Bleckner, Barry Le Va, Keung Szeto, Gary Stephan, and Deborah Remington.[3]

Lerner was a member of the New New Painters a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett (1934-2016), in 1978, contemporaneously with the further advancement of acrylic gel paint as developed by the paint chemist Sam Golden.[4] Lerner is also considered a trailblazer in the visual genre of hypertexture.[5]

Lerner has taught at the Katonah Art Center and in 2019 he spoke and conducted a workshop at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center in Stamford, Connecticut.[6][7]

References
  1. "Roy Lerner - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Roy Lerner". askart.com. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  2. "Roy Lerner. Overtures and Bebop". 3 July 2014.
  3. "Past Exhibitions".
  4. Sam Golden, Paintmaking Pioneer, Sam Golden's eulogy at Golden Artist Colors.
  5. "Hypertexture Archives - A Gathering of the Tribes". tribes.org. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  6. "Roy Lerner". 20 November 2017.
  7. "Art After Dark Program: Artists' Talk and Painting Workshop with Roy Lerner | Stamford Museum & Nature Center". January 2019.


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