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This is the public profile of Lisa Falkenstern, Additional information and high-resolution images are available for accredited press members, to access additional information about Lisa Falkenstern please login as a press member.About Lisa Falkenstern : While I know the unexamined life is not worth living, I spend very little time thinking about why I am important. I am happy to have achieved a living doing what I want to do. I guess my contribution to society is through my art and my books. When I meet people, who know of my work, they seem to be happy to meet me and to discuss my paintings. That’s it, I truly hate to talk about myself.
STATEMENT OF ART:I am, for the most part, an imaginary realist painter. All my life I have been entranced by fantasy art. As a child, my earliest purchases were from an antique bookstore in New York City. It was a few tattered Beatrix Potter books and a book of fairy tales Illustrated by Harry Clarke, missing most of its spine. That was the start. Fantasy art, for me, delights the eye and intrigues the mind. To look at a piece of art, and get lost in its images and stories is very pleasurable.
I think imagery in art is very important, it draws people in and makes them think. I believe you can paint representational art and still keep the abstract values of form, design and color. The kind of representational art that doesn't adhere to the concepts of abstract art are not good art.
ORGANIZATION:
Lisa Falkenstern Design
EDUCATION:
Parsons School of Design, Art Students League, SVA, Cooper Union
EXPERIENCE:
Freelance Illustrator for over thirty years.
PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
Hunterdon Museum of Art, 1984
MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
2018
Los Angeles Society or Illustration Show, Illustration West 57
Award: Silver for ‘Follow the Leader’
Creativity International
Awards:
Bronze for ‘Frog Prince’, ‘Steampunk Pear’, ‘Blowing Bubbles’
Silver for ‘First Class’
Allied Artists of America Show/ Salmagundi Club
3x3 Annual No. 15
Ann Street Gallery, group show, “Rituals and Identity”
Niza Knoll Gallery, group show, “Hey, Diddle Diddle; Artist Interpretation of
Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales”
The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, “Ellarslie Open 35 Juried Exhibit”
Award: Best in Show, drawing category, “Springtime”
South Haven Center for the Arts, group show, Tales of the Sea
ArtVale Gallery, group show, “The Egg Show”
Morris Museum, group show, “Storybook Style: A Selection of Works from the Minds of Living Illustrators”
The Studio Door, group show, The Crow Show 2018
New York Society of Illustrators Annual Show 60
Los Angeles Society of Illustrators Annual Show, Illustration West 56
Award: Honorable Mention, ‘Masquerade’
2017
Focus On Nature XIV
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Award: Jury Award for ‘Tulip Tree Roots’
Creativity International
Award: Platinum Award for ‘Dandy Dutch’
2017 Artsbridge Members Show
2016
Fe Gallery, ‘Fables, Fairy Tales, Folktales, Legends and Myths’
New Hope Historical Society, “ Artists Alive”
The Center for Contemporary Art, 2016 Members’ Exhibit
Artsbridge ‘Summer Arts Festival’
Award: Honorable Mention, ‘Sheepish’
NJ SCBWI Summer Conference Art Show
Awards, Best in Show and Peoples’ Choice for ‘I Will Awake And Go Now’
‘The Enchanted Universe’
The Galleries of The Interchurch Center
The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Ellarslie Open 33 Juried Exhibit
New Hope Art League 2016 7th Annual Juried Show
2015
Creativity International Awards
Award: Bronze Award for ‘Toadstool’
Illustration West 54 Exhibition
Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles
‘Inspired By Nature’ Group Show
Lawrence Pavilion, Summit Medical Group
Stover Mill Gallery 2015 Juried Exhibition
Award: Stover Mill Gallery Award
‘Tree Trunk’
Artsbridge 21st Annual Open Juried Show
Award: The Gallery Piquel Award for Imaginative Realism Painting
‘When Pigs Fly’
New Hope Art League 6th Annual Juried Art Show
N.J SCBWI Summer Conference Art Show
Award; Honorable Mention/ Professional category
‘Snow Queen’
Center for Contemporary Art 2015 Juried Member Show
2014
Members Show
New Jersey Society of Plein Air Painters
Biola University
Group show, ‘A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words’
The Tewksbury Historical Society Annual Juried Art Show
Center for Contemporary Art 2014 Annual Members’ Non-juried Exhibit
Award: Best in Show, ‘Steampunk Humpty Dumpty’
Center for Contemporary Art 2014 International Juried Exhibition
Creativity International Awards
Award; Gold Award, Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC
2013
Los Angeles Society of Illustrators/ Illustration West 53
2013
Bucks County Gallery of Fine Art 6x6 Show
Bold Hype Gallery Group Show ‘Kindred’
Creativity International Awards
Award: Platinum Award, ‘Hansel and Gretel’
2012
440 Gallery
Group show, ‘From Mice to Monsters’
AWARDS:
2004, NY SI, Gold Medal, Member's Show
Creativity International 42 Print, Platinum
Creativity International 44 Print, Honorable Mention
Creativity International 46 Media/Print, Bronze, Silver
Creativity International 47 Media, Platinum, Gold, Bronze
Creativity International 48, Print, Bronze, Silver
2018, Ellarslie Open, Best In Show, Drawing Category
2105 New Hope Juried Show, Gallery Piquel Award
2014 Center for Contemporary Art, Best In Show
2018 Los Angeles SI, Illustration West 57, Silver
BOOKS:
Illustrated books;
The Busy Tree, Marshall Cavendish
A Dragon Moves In, Marshall Cavendish
Prof. Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC
In the books:
Women of Wonder, pgs. 54-55, Underwood Books, ISBN 978-1-59929-072-0
Paperbacks From Hell, pgs 160,185, Quirk Books, ISBN 978-1-59474-981-0
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
English.
COMPUTER LITERACY:
Photoshop
COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS::
NJ SCBWI conference workshops on creativity and illustration skills.
SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES::
Rutgers One on One, 2010, 2011
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:
1984, New York Society of Illustrators,
2012,Los Angeles Society of Illustrators
1998, CSI
COLLECTIONS:
2017, New York State Museum
2000, Museum of Illustration, NY, NY
HOBBIES:
learning to build automatons, gardening
CLIENTELE:
Pocket Books, Random House,Berkely Books, Putnam Books, Avon Books, Zebra Books, Twin Lions, Marshall Cavendish, most of the major imprints, Hallmark Channel
WEB SITE:
http://www.lisafalkenstern.com
PORTFOLIO URL:
http://www.lisafalkenstern.com
REGISTRATION DATE:
2018-12-10 22:37:32
COUNTRY/REGION:
United States of America
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional
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