Roy Lerner (1954–2023) was an internationally exhibited

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painter. Born in

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, Lerner attended

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, where he studied with the artist Peter Bradley. Early in his career Lerner was a gallery assistant to the British sculptor

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

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, with

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, Keung Szeto, Gary Stephan, and Deborah Remington. 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

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, Dr. Kenworth Moffett (1934–2016), in 1978, contemporaneously with the further advancement of acrylic gel paint as developed by the paint chemist

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.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 in Stamford, Connecticut.

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