Roy Lerner

{{Short description|American painter (1954–2023)}}

Roy Lerner (1954–2023) was an internationally exhibited American painter.{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/askart/l/roy_lerner/roy_lerner.aspx|title=Roy Lerner - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Roy Lerner|publisher=askart.com|accessdate=2015-09-22}}

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Lerner attended Franconia College, where he studied with the artist Peter Bradley. Early in his career Lerner was a gallery assistant to the British sculptor Anthony Caro.{{Cite web|url=https://viedesarts.com/en/profiles-en/roy-lerner-overtures-and-bebop/|title=Roy Lerner. Overtures and Bebop|website=Vie des arts|first=John K. |last=Grande|date=3 July 2014}} In 1987, he exhibited in a group exhibition the Fall Invitational at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, with Ross Bleckner, Barry Le Va, Keung Szeto, Gary Stephan, and Deborah Remington.{{Cite web|url=https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/past?year=1980|title = Past Exhibitions from the 1980s|publisher=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum}}

Lerner was a member of the New New Painters, a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett (1934–2016), in 1978, contemporaneously with the further advancement of acrylic gel paint as developed by the paint chemist Sam Golden.[http://www.goldenpaints.com/justpaint/jp5article1.php Sam Golden, Paintmaking Pioneer], Sam Golden's eulogy at Golden Artist Colors. Lerner is also considered a trailblazer in the visual genre of hypertexture.{{cite web|url=http://www.tribes.org/web/tag/hypertexture/ |title=Hypertexture Archives - A Gathering of the Tribes |publisher=tribes.org|accessdate=2015-09-22}}

Lerner taught at the Katonah Art Center and in 2019 he spoke and conducted a workshop at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center in Stamford, Connecticut.{{Cite web|url=https://www.katonahartcenter.com/faculty/roy-lerner/|title = Roy Lerner|publisher=Katonah Art Center|date = 20 November 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.stamfordmuseum.org/event/art-after-dark-program-artists-talk-and-painting-workshop-with-roy-lerner/|title=Art After Dark Program: Artists' Talk and Painting Workshop with Roy Lerner | Stamford Museum & Nature Center|date=January 2019}}