The Artist
I am an accomplished painter, illustrator, and graphic designer, specializing in figurative art. As an illustrator, some of my clients have been Perrier, Prentice-Hall publishing, United Airlines, Marlboro and Target.
I have a wide range of artistic interests and skills in both traditional and non-traditional media. I have been privileged to have been the art instructor for the Hoboken Homeless Shelter, and the Saturday U enrichment program for public school children at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. My Hoboken Children's Memorial Flag can be seen on permanent display at Hoboken City Hall. It was the first public 9/11 memorial in Hoboken.
My Greetings from Hoboken New Jersey merchandise is available online at hobokenpostcard.com, at the Hoboken Historical Museum and other retail outlets in Hoboken.
I keep my skills sharp by working indoors from life, outdoors from nature, copying old master and Impressionist paintings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I am featured in a recent book, Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Danny Danziger.
COMMISSONS
My prices generally start at $500 for a 12 X 16 oil painting on an archival canvas panel.
This would include a single head & shoulders portrait, or up to three smaller figures. I prefer to not work from photographs, unless I've taken them myself. I might ask you for additional photo reference. In any case, I will need you (or whoever you have in mind) for at least one sitting, but I'll take as many as I can get.
Drawings are an less expensive option for a larger piece of work. A 20" X 24" drawing in an archival mat would be $500.
Frames for artwork are not included in the pricing, but I'm happy to help you find something attractive and affordable.
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Visions -Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ
2020 5th Annual Waterscapes -Fusion Art-2nd Place
2020 5th Annual Plein Air Festival -Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts-Honorable Mention
2020 RedArtBox Japan - RedArtBox Design & Publishing
2020 Small Works 2020 - Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2020 Seattle Art Festival-Juried selection
2020 Dirty Show Detroit - Detroit, MI
2017 Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival-Juried Participant
2015-Present Hoboken Children’s 9/11 Memorial Flag-Hoboken City Hall
2014 Seattle Art Festival-Juried selection
2013 Seattle Art Festival-Juried selection
2012 En Plein Air: Seeking a Sensation-Hoboken Historical Museum-Solo exhibition
2012 Muse-Monroe Center-Solo exhibition
2008 Remembering Aviva Stone- Street Studio-New York City- Group show
2007 Figures & Landscapes Historical Museum-Figures & Landscapes-Solo exhibition
2005-Present Greetings from Hoboken-Postcards, Greeting Cards, Posters, and T-Shirts on sale at various outlets and the Art & Music Fairs in Hoboken.
2005 Hoboken,1930-Present-Hoboken Historical Museum
2005 Comfort, Hope, Family & Friends-Stevens Institute-Hoboken NJ-Solo exhibition
2002 St. John's Lutheran Church-Hoboken-Exhibit of the artist’s work with an exhibit and sale of the artwork of students from the artist's Homeless Shelter Art Class.
2002-2015 Hoboken Children’s 9/11 Memorial Flag-Hoboken Board of Education
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Legendary Locals of Hoboken-Alan Skontra, Arcadia Publishing 2014, Raymond Smith pp 94
Greetings from Hoboken, A Postcard History-Hoboken Historical Museum 2008
Museum-Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art-Danny Danziger, Viking Penquin 2007, Raymond Smith pp 213-217
Jersey Journal- Oct 14, 2005-Mile Square Studio
Waterfront Journal-Oct 13, 2005-Hoboken Studio Tour
Hemispheres Magazine - April 2001 Artist Showcase
Hemispheres Magazine-August 1998 Cover art and interview
Print-Nov/Dec 1995 The Case of the Perrier Bottle-What’s in a Nose?
ART INSTRUCTOR
2018-Present ArteVino Studio-Hoboken, NJ
2018-Present Elysian Charter School, All Saints Elementary School, Stevens Co-Op, Wallace Elementary School -Hoboken, NJ
2004-06 Saturday U Gifted and Talented program-Hoboken, NJ
2002-03 Hoboken Homeless Shelter-Hoboken, NJ
1998-99 Wallace Elementary School-Hoboken, NJ
1983-84 Columbia College-Chicago, Il