Roy Lerner Acrylic and Gel on Canvas "All They Care About is Green"

Item Details

Roy Lerner (American, b. 1954)
All They Care About is Green, 1997
Acrylic and gel on canvas
Unsigned
Descriptive label adhered to verso
54.25’ W x 1.75’ H

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

An acrylic and gel painting on a canvas by New New Painter Roy Lerner (American; b. 1954), executed in 1997. This work features a 3-dimensional textural wave of vibrant orange, green, and purple pigments with glitter accents, applied on a long narrow strip of canvas. The work is unsigned and presented in a composite brown wood frame. A descriptive label is adhered to the verso.

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.

Condition

- some dust and residue collected throughout framework; minor scratches and finish loss scattered throughout frame.

Dimensions

- measurement of frame; canvas size measures approximately 54.25" W x 1.75" H.

Item #

18DCC238-505