Original Art

Item Description

Artist:  Jerry LoFaro

Title:  Artic Kiss

Medium:  Printed on Canvas

Image Size:  16 x 12 inches

Frame Size:  18 x 14 inches

Date:

Signed:  Yes

Item Special Note

After ruling out his initial career choices as a paleontologist, zoologist, baseball player and Good Humor ice cream man, Jerry LoFaro employed his lifetime interest in dinosaurs, animals, fantasy, art history and literature into a successful career as an illustrator. His formal art education was spent at S.U.N.Y., New Paltz in 1980-81, while his most important lessons came later in figure drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York. Jerry LoFaro's art can be seen on the book covers of most major publishers including Random House, Harcourt, Ballentine, Avon, Bantam, Time Life, and Viking Penguin.

Jerry has also created advertising and promotional illustration for a wide variety of clients such as: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Barcardi, Conoco, Aflac, Levi's, Disney, Claritin, National Georgraphic, Discovery Channel, Time Magazine, Nike, Panasonic, Air Canada, Minolta, San Francisco Ballet, Haagen-Daz, Trojan, Kellogg's, IBM, AT&T, Jacksonville Jaguars and The MGM Grand Hotel.

He is especially enjoying his relationship with Celestial Seasonings, and has created art for over 50 tea boxes, products and tins during the last few years. In addition to Jerry LoFaro's work being selected for twelve Society of Illustrators Annual Shows, he has also exhibited many paintings in Communications Arts Annuals, Spectrum, Expose, Graphis, Applied Arts, and the Encyclopedia of Airbrush Techniques, among others. Articles about his art and career have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Manchester Union Leader, Concord Monitor, The New Yorker, New Hampshire Magazine, Advanced Photoshop Magazine and in Airbrush Action Magazine, where he is a regular contributor.

Jerry was awarded a medal from The Society of Illustrators of L.A.'s 32nd Exhibition and Awards for the best in advertising in Spectrum Vol. I, II, and VI. In 1996, he was presented The Vargas Award for lifetime achievementin illustration and for his contributions to the airbrush industry. In 2007 he earned The Grand Master Award from Ballistic Publishing's Expose's collection of the year's best digital art. And most recently, he has the great honor of being awarded a Gold Medal from The Society of Illustrators of NY in the Advertising category of Illustrators 51. In 1997, The Manchester Artists Association awarded him New Hampshire Artist of the Year, and he's had the honor of twice serving as keynote speaker at The Currier Gallery in Manchester for the National Youth Arts Groupinduction ceremony. Jerry LoFaro is also a highly regarded and popular instructor, having taught classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and New England College. He's led seminars around the United States sponsored by Airbrush Action Magazine and has participated in a number of The Currier Gallery of Art's Annual Allstate events, which brings sixty of New Hampshire's most talented high school students together withprofessional artist mentors for an intense creative weekend. He enjoys speaking at schools in his adopted state, and hosting field trips at his studio. In 2008, Jerry created a piece of art on his computer in front of a film crew fora DVD tutorial on his working process in Photoshop. Garnering rave reviews, Creating Arctic Kiss which is available through numerous online stores. Jerry left New York City in 1995, and now lives in Henniker, New Hampshire with his wife Kathleen and son Gregory.