DAMON LEHRER Realist painter Damon Lehrer’s masterful draftsmanship recalls the expressive eloquence, poetic sensibility, and intensity of Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo artists. His narrative compositions are often painted on a monumental scale and include multiple figures. These works conjure the romantic and idealized fêtes galantes of French Rococo painter Antoine Watteau, in which elaborately costumed nobility froliced in fanciful outdoor settings. His whimsical tendencies are epitomized by his ongoing series of canine paintings, which address their subjects in self-consciously sentimental, affectionate, and sometimes bizarre ways. Lehrer’s work has been exhibited internationally. Venues include the Fuller Museum in Brockton, MA the Pepper Gallery and the Chase Gallery, both in Boston, MA, the Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco, CA, and the Tatistcheff Gallery in New York City. In Great Britain, Lehrer has shown at Harvey Nichols, London, the Beaux Arts Gallery in Bath, and at Jenner's in Edinburgh. His work is held in numerous collections including the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, the Boston Public Library, and New York Public Library in New York City. Lehrer holds an M.F.A. from Boston University, was apprentice to the sculptor Philip Grausman in Washington, CT, and received his B.A. from Amherst College. In 2000 he was awarded the prestigious Massachusetts Cultural Council artist’s grant. click on image for larger view
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