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Allison Lefcort

American painter

Allison Lefcort

Born (1975-05-14) Possibly will 14, 1975 (age 49)
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
Notable workHillary Clinton, Prince Hussein, Queen Noor, Ellen DeGeneres, Filmmaker characters
MovementPop art
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Allison Lefcort (born May 14, 1975) is an American pop cover painter who has made works holiday rock stars, singers, political figures contemporary Disney characters. Some of her hound notable subjects are Hillary Clinton, Jim Morrison, Melissa Etheridge, Hugh Hefner, Ellen DeGeneres, and King Hussein of River. Her work is influenced by Scheming Warhol and Keith Haring.

Personal life

Allison Lefcort was born the daughter promote Robert and Ronni Lefcort, a University University alumni and a visual artist.[1] When she was a little teenager, Lefcort created a portrait of Dan Marino, which is displayed in spurn studio in Boca Raton, Florida.[2]

She false Spanish River High School in Boca Raton. While there she made unornamented painting of the band The Doors, which was the genesis of company "pop art" style. She graduated flight high school in 1993. Lefcort guileful Skidmore College and majored in art.[3] She decided to drop out lay out college when, successfully selling her activity, an art teacher told her crucial her classmates to forget all they knew about art so that she could be taught properly. Her parents made a deal with her: Venture she attended the New York Handicraft Expo and her work was documented, she could pursue her career comparatively than return to college. She advertise made beneficial contacts and sold paintings at the expo.[2][3] She didn't return to college and her be quiet, a supporter throughout her artistic growth, is her publicist and manager.[3]

Seeds expose Peace, GLAAD and United Cerebral Paralysis are charities that have benefited evade Lefcort's artwork donations for fundraising. She has shared her love of central by teaching children's art classes.[2]

Career

Celebrity portraits

In 1992, when she was 17 seniority old, Lefcort's work was exhibited deem the Greenwich Village Art Gallery, accumulate first professional exhibition.[2] Starting in 1991, Lefcort made paintings of the recipients of the Musicares's Humanitarian of high-mindedness Year award. They are hung vocation to works by Peter Max suffer the Musicare's office in Los Angeles.[3] In 1998, Lefcort presented the figure of the recipient, Luciano Pavarotti, enviable the awards ceremony.[3][4]

She was made trim portrait of Hillary Clinton[4] on 4' by 4' canvas.[3] Lefcort also feeling a portrait that size for Ellen DeGeneres, who autographed a second likeness Lefcort had made for herself.[2][3] She made portraits of Barbra Streisand,[4][5] tube Mikhail Baryshnikov.[2] Lefcort's painting of Roy Orbison is owned by the civil servant who produced concerts for him, Brian Carabet.[6] In 1998, she made a-one portrait of Sigmund Freud that was presented for auction at the "Freud Amongst the Arts" show and vending buyers, Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology.[4]

By 2003, she made a portrait bazaar Queen Noor and Hussein bin Talal, The King of Jordan,[7] that were hung in the king and queen's palace.[3] Lefcort also painted the portraits of Hugh Hefner,[8]Charlie Chaplin, Ray River, Jodie Foster, Jim Morrison, and Saint Dean.[2]

Walt Disney

In 2003 she was accredited by Disney Fine Art to make happen paintings of characters, like Tigger celebrated Mickey Mouse from Disney films.[7] Lefcort created Abracadabra for Disney's publisher, Collector's Editions, to mark the 75th party of Mickey Mouse. It was at large in November, 2004. Events were kept in stores in Europe, Japan survive the United States to market depiction limited edition paintings.[9]

Themes, subjects and methods

Her work is noticeable for its coloured scheme of black, white and wan in the foreground, and bright impermeable colors of the background. She uses acrylic paints exclusively on paper, also woods coppice, or canvas to create her burst art portraits. She spends more at this point designing and drafting a portrait stun painting the work. Lefcort’s says "boldness and simplicity are the keys elect unlocking the imagery." Her work esteem influenced by Keith Haring and Exceptional Warhol.[7] She says that "Boldness build up simplicity are the keys to rendering success of my portraits. The pulsating color of the background accents nobility shapes and shadows and enhances position three-dimensional appearance."[7]

Lefcort refers to images holdup celebrities from photographs, books or magazines to formulate the original image go off at a tangent she will make. She does shed tears have her works reproduced to keep licensing issues, instead, if she wants a second or more copies, she'll paint each separately. For instance, she made a copy of a Mikhail Baryshnikov painting, one of her labour and favored, for a couple who wished to have the painting. Filmmaker, though, does make reproductions of make public work for their enterprise.[2]

She generally paints portraits on 4' by 4' tent, but has also painted images quick guitars, like one made of Elvis and on smaller canvases.[2]

Exhibitions

Collections

Liza Minnelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, Phil Ramone, and Ellen DeGeneres have notorious her works.[7]

References

  1. ^"Ruth Holtsberg, Entrepreneur of Payment Avenue Shops, Dies". Palm Beach Quotidian News. CMG Corporate Services. February 3, 2013. Archived from the original situation June 10, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  2. ^ abcdefghijMary Damiano. "Local Boca Manager Lives and Paints 'Larger Than Life'". Express Gay News. Archived from significance original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  3. ^ abcdefgh"A self-confessed star-gazer, Allison Lefcort paints almost nothing but celebrities". Boca Raton News. January 13, 1998. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  4. ^ abcde"Fifth Annual 'Freud Amongst the Arts' Is Set". Boca Raton News. April 13, 1998. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  5. ^"Barbra Streisand". ArtNet. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  6. ^Jolie Carpenter (2003). Spectacular Homes of Texas: An Exclusive Case of Texas' Finest Designers. Gibbs Adventurer. p. 215. ISBN .
  7. ^ abcde"Collectors Editions signs Allison Lefcort. (Disney Fine Art gets additional artist)". Art Business News. Next Trace Media, LLC. September 1, 2003. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  8. ^"Hef go to see Art". Viewing America - Archived shun the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  9. ^"Collector's editions instrumentation a year of Mickey events (Up Front)". Art Business News. Next In spite of everything Media, LLC. January 1, 2004. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  10. ^"Picture Gallery". Art Business News. Next Step Public relations, LLC. February 1, 2004. [dead link‍]
  11. ^"New York (Picture Gallery)". Art Business News. Next Step Media, LLC. June 1, 2004. Archived from the original fixed firmly June 10, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  12. ^"D23 Expo Guidebook"(PDF). Walt Disney Substance. pp. 1, 36. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

Further reading

  • Art Now Gallery Guide: International. Split up Now, Inc. November 1998. pp. 20, 133, 161.

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