Jonathan Lasker
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Jonathan Lasker (born 1948) in Jersey City,New Jersey. Lasker is an American artist who attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Lasker lives and works in New York City, New York.
Lasker has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1987 and again in 1989. In 1989 he was also awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant.
His work has been covered in Artforum, Artscribe, Arts Magazine, Art Today, Flash Art, New Art Examiner, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Tema Celeste, Village Voice, and The Washington Post among many others.
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The painting repeated the composition of the study, but not precisely, as it is a freehand rendition of the study only. The gap between the image which one is recreating and the image which one arrives at is an interesting study in perception and intuition. Surprisingly one is very much “in the moment” of creation when attempting to replicate an image, an attempt which is almost designed to fail in order to arrive at a picture, which in spite of its precedents, is unique. -Jonathan Lasker
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Lasker's work is included in numerous private and public collections around the world.
Museums who have Lasker's work in their collections include:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
The British Library, London, England
Casino Luxembourg, Forum for Contemporary Art, Luxembourg
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
De Peter Stuyvesant stichting, Amsterdam
Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
La Fondacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid
High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C.
MIT-List Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
