Roy Lerner (1954-2023) Born in Chicago, Illinois) was an internationally exhibited

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painter. 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. In 1987 he exhibited in a group exhibition the ''Fall Invitational'' at the

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is located in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Aldrich has no permanent collection and is the only museum in Connecticut that is dedicated solely to the exhibition of contemporary art. The museum presents the first ...

in Ridgefield, Connecticut with

Ross Bleckner Ross Bleckner (born May 12, 1949) is an American artist. He currently lives and works in New York City. His artistic focus is on painting, and he held his first solo exhibition in 1975. Some of his art work reflected on the AIDS epidemic. Earl ...

Barry Le Va Barry Edward Le Va (December 28, 1941 – January 24, 2021) was an American sculptor and installation artist. Trained in his native California, he lived and worked in New York City. Le Va was among the leading figures of post-studio and process ...

, Keung Szeto,

Gary Stephan Gary Stephan (born 1942) is an Americans, American Abstract art, abstract painting, painter born in Brooklyn who has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Europe. He lives and works in New York City and Stone Ridge, NY and is on ...

, and Deborah Remington. Lerner was a member of the

New New Painters The New New Painters were a self-labeled art group whose core members are twelve abstract artists (Lucy Baker, Steve Brent, Joseph Drapell, John Gittins, Roy Lerner, Anne Low, Marjorie Minkin, Irene Neal, Gérard Paire, Graham Peacock, Bruce P ...

a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr.

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(1934-2016), in 1978, contemporaneously with the further advancement of acrylic gel paint as developed by the paint chemist Sam Golden.Sam Golden, Paintmaking Pioneer
Sam Golden's eulogy at Golden Artist Colors. Lerner is also considered a trailblazer in the visual genre of hypertexture. Lerner taught at the Katonah Art Center and in 2019 he spoke and conducted a workshop at the

Stamford Museum & Nature Center The Stamford Museum & Nature Center, located in Stamford, Connecticut, is an art, history, nature, and agricultural sciences museum. The property covers 118 acres (ca. 48 hectares) beginning about half a mile north of the Merritt Parkway. It was ...

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