Roy Lerner

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Roy Lerner (1954-2023) Born in Chicago, Illinois) was 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 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]

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  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.
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  7. "Art After Dark Program: Artists' Talk and Painting Workshop with Roy Lerner | Stamford Museum & Nature Center". January 2019.