Edgar jerins biography
- Edgar Jerins was.
- Edgar Jerins was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1958.
- Edgar Jerins was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1958.
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This is a continuing series of interviews with the forty-eight artists whose work was selected for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The third OBPC exhibition opened on March 23, 2013, and will run through February 23, 2014. Edgar Jerins, who participated in our interviews last autumn, created the work David and Anita Visiting Daina for the 2013 competition.
Q: Where are you from, where do you live now?
A: I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. I now reside in Manhattan with my wife, Alana, and my two daughters Ruby and Sterling.
Q: What medium(s) do you work with?
A: For years, I worked primarily with oil and pastel, and now the balance has shifted to primarily charcoal on paper.
Q: Tell us about your technique/creative process.
A: I begin with a story or situation that someone I know is going through/facing.
Then, having secured my subject participation, I begin the process of photographing them in their environment. This involves many shoots and often results in me not moving forward on that image. When I do find a compell
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BORN
1958 Lincoln, Nebraska
EDUCATION
1976-1980 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 4-Year Certificate
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Monumental Drawings, Glen Hansen Studio, Southold, NY
2011 Beckler Family Member Gallery, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts,
Wilmington, Delaware May - August &
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ARTIST BIO
Edgar Jerins was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1958. He was the recipient of a full scholarship from Scholastic Art Awards to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts graduating in 1980 with a four year certificate. That year, he was awarded a Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, which funded his move to Los Angeles. Subsequent grants : The Pollock-KrasnerFoundation Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant, George Sugarman Foundation Grant (twice), and the E.D. Foundation Grant.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Latvian Foreign Art Museum, Riga, Latvia, Museum of Nebraska Art, Payne Gallery at Moravian Collage, and two New York City exhibitions at Tatistsheff Gallery. His drawings have been widely exhibited in catalogue supported shows across the US.
Reviews include The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and American Arts Quarterly. A feature article “Uomimi in mezzo ai guair” by Lorena Cerbini appeared in Italy’s Arte Magazine. His work and essay are in
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