John Dubrow

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John Dubrow (born 1958) is an American painter. [1] [2]

Biography

John Dubrow was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1958. [3] [4] [5] He attended Syracuse University, the Camberwell College of Arts in London, and the San Francisco Art Institute. [1] [3] [4] His early influences include the Bay Area Figurative Movement, especially Richard Diebenkorn, David Park and Bruce McGaw, and the abstract expressionist Julius Hatofsky. [1] [5]

He has painted rooftops in New York City and Jerusalem, and portraits, including William Bailey, Marc Fumaroli and Mark Strand. [1] [2] [6] While painting his portraits, the subjects are allowed to move and talk to him. [1] Instead of a sketchbook, he uses an iPad, then completes his paintings in his studio in New York City. [1]

Since the 1980s, his work has been exhibited at the Lori Bookstein Fine Art, the Salander- O'Reilly Galleries, the Contemporary Realist Gallery in San Francisco, etc. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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