Roy Lerner Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Item Details

Roy Lerner (American, b. 1954)
Untitled
acrylic on canvas
31′ × 70′

Provenance
The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters

Included with the painting is an exhibition catalog for Outside New York, curated by Graham Peacock in 1989-90.

An acrylic painting on canvas by Roy Lerner. Roy paints with the unstretched canvas on a plywood platform. He utilizes vibrant colored acrylic paints and transparent gel mediums applied with a variety of rollers, brushes, and knives in intensive painting sessions. Each stroke is deliberate and contingent upon the last with the gels drying clear and thick. The end result is stretched and leaves a complex web of detail and color.

Roy Lerner studied photography and art history at Northern Arizona University in 1972-73 and film-making at the New School in New York City in 1976. He received his B.A. in Visual Arts from Franconia College in New Hampshire in 1977. At Franconia, fellow painter Peter Bradley (American, b. 1940) introduced him to color field painter Kenneth Noland, and Anthony Caro, the English sculptor, whom Lerner served as an assistant in London for three months in 1976. Lener also attended the Triangle Workshop in Pine Plains, New York in 1984. 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 in 1978.

Dimensions

- measures with the box frame; canvas size 27.5" W x 67" H.

Item #

17DCC195-445