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    Biography of Mal Luber

Mal Luber, one of Connecticut's most outstanding artists, has exhibited his drawings and paintings in many leading museums and galleries throughout the country. His photo-realist drawings have received critical acclaim wherever they have been exhibited, and are included in several prestigious museum and private collections.

For as long as he has been an artist, the human form has been his primary focus. Over the past three decades he has been primarily known for his large photo-realist drawings of nudes, commissioned portraits and "street people", which the critics have called "remarkable", and have referred to him as "an artist with a camera's eye".

In the last few years Mal has turned his artistic attention to the cowboys of the American West, as well as equine art, wildlife art, cowboy art, carousel art, and even pet portaiture. During his trips to the West he photographs cowboys, horses, and other images that he converts into drawings and acrylic paintings of intense color and power.

It is his wildlife art pieces, in both graphite and color pencil, and acrylic paint, which are presently receiving most of the critical attention. Although his wildlife art subject matter is quite diverse -from elephants to iguanas, Mal is focusing on a series which he calls "Portraits on the Wild Side". These are very close up images of various wild animals, seen as portraits, rather than as animals in their natural environment. In this way, he distinghishes himself from other wildlife artsists.

Whether it's the human form, horses, pets or wildlife, Mal Luber is an artist in command of his mediums who pocesses a keen awareness of how to create a powerful image.

OVERVIEW OF EXHIBITIONS

Education:
BFA Hunter College - 1960
MA Hunter College - 1964
Commercial Artist/ Designer, Illustrator, Portrait Artist, Painter

Exhibitions:

• Group Show - Ruth Sherman Gallery, New York City
• One Man Show - Crown Gallery, New Haven, CT.
• One Man Show - Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, CT.
• One Man Show - Manchester Community College Gallery of Art, Manchester, CT.
• Two Man Show - Museum of Art Science and Industry, Bridgeport, CT.
• One Man Drawing Show - Capitol Building. - Hartford, CT.
• Two Man Show - Berkeley College, Yale University
• Connecticut Artists Group Show - Slater Museum, Norwich, CT.
• Mural Commission - Connecticut Savings Bank, New Haven, CT.
• New England Exhibition of Painting and Drawings - Silvermine Gallery of Art, New Canaan, CT. - UNION CARBIDE AWARD FOR DRAWING
• "Portraits in the City"- One man show - New Britain Museum of American Art - PURCHASE AWARD
• Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition - Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.
• One Man Show - Misrachi Gallery - Madison Ave., New York City
• "Drawings and Water Colors of American Realists" - Louis Meisel Gallery - New York
• One Man Show - Louis Meisel Gallery, New York City
• "Living American Artists and the Figure" - Museum of Art, Penn. State University
• "The Human Image Today" - Ralph Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA.
• "Three Centuries of the American Nude" - New York Cultural Center, New York
• "Six Distinct Visions" - Marisa del Re Gallery - New York City
• "Hi Mom! What's New? Five Artists Look at Children " - Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL - PURCHASE AWARD
• "Nothing But Nudes" - Whitney Museum of Art, New York.
• One Man Show - Cyvia Gallery, New Haven, CT.
• Special Showing for Selected Artists - Connecticut Arts Week - Shakespeare Theater
• 68th Annual Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts - RICHARD WELLING PRIZE FOR DRAWING
• 1998 National Greeley Juried Exhibition - Greeley Colorado - FIRST PRIZE
• 1998 Art of the Northeast - Juried Exhibition - Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT.
• 1998 Windsor Memorial - Juried Exhibition - Windsor, CT.
• 1998 Westmoreland Juried Arts and Heritage Festival, Latrobe, PA. - AWARD OF DISTICTION
• 1998 9th Annual Juried Exhibition - Veridian Artists, 57th St. New York, N.Y.
• 1998 Contemporary Realism III, Old City, PA.
• 1998 Alternative Museum National Showcase: "New Visions, New Voices", New York, N.Y.
• 1998 Manhattan Arts Int'l Magazine 7th Annual Arts Competition - ARTIST SHOWCASE AWARD
• 1998 State of the Arts - National Juried Competition, Florence, Oregon - FIRST PRIZE
• 1998 Nightwalker Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Ft. Collins Museum of Art, Ft. Collins CO.
• 1998 Artists Guild, Cheyenne, WY - SECOND PRIZE
• 1998 Annual Faber Brren National Color Award Show, Stamford, CT. - VIVIAN AND STANLEY REED FOUNDERS AWARD FOR PAINTING
• 1998 "Aesthetics '98" - Sandzen Gallery, Lindsborg, KS.
• 1998 The Art Institute and Gallery of Salisbury, 77th Annual Juried Show, Salisbury, MD.
• 1998 Colored Pencil Society of America, The Mackey Gallery -
• 1998 Santa Fe Art Classic - William Vincent Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
• 1998 "On/Of Paper" - Chowan College, Green Hall Gallery, Murfreesboro, N.C.
• 1998 National Society of Artists International Exhibition, Santa Fe, TX.
• 1999 Western Spirit Art Show and Sale - Old West Museum, Cheyenne, WY.
• 1999 "The Figure In Real Life - A Twenty Year Retrospective" - LBK Gallery, Newton, MA.
• 1999 " Portraits of the Soul" - One Man Show - Stiar Gallery - Stoughton, MA
• 1999 "Art at the Classic" - Grass County CA
• 1999 "Figuratively Speaking" - University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
• 1999 "On/Of Paper" National Competition - Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC - HONORABLE MENTION
• 2000 "The Horse in Art" - Hartford Fine Art, Hartford, CT
• 2000 The Hubbard Museum of Western Art Invitational Show, Ruidso, NM
• 2000 Lauren Ellis Gallery, Group Show, New York, N.Y.
• 2000 Gallery Choice Award Winner - Art Trends Magazine: Best Western Print
• 2001 American Academy of Equine Art Annual Exhibition - Museum of the Horse - Louisville, KY - Popular Choice Award for "The Power of Two"
• 2001 "On/Of Paper" - Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC
• 2003 International Exhibition on Animals in Art, Louisiana State University
• 2003 Annual Wildlife Show - The Gallery at Pheasant Ridge - Greenwich, NY
• 2004 47th Annual International Exhibition - San Diego Art Institute
• 2004 "Win-Place-Show" - An exhibition of horse racing art - The Arts Center, Saratoga, NY
• 2005 Wildlife Artist’s Association - California Museum of Living Art
• 2005 "Art of the Animal Kingdom - Bennington Center for the Arts
• 2005 "Art Show at the Dog Show" - Foyer Gallery, Century II Convention Center - PRIZE FOR DRAWING
• 2005 "Art of the Animal Kingdom" - Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT.
• 2006 "Innocence" - New Britain Museum of American Art
• 2006 "Go Figure" - Maryland Federation of Art - AWARD FOR DRAWING
  

  Professional Associations:
  Cowboy Artists and Photographers Association of America
  Wildlife Artists of America
  Worldwide Nature Artists Group
  Member of Washington Society of Portrait Artists
  Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists

  Collections:
  Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
  New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT.
  Pillsbury Collection, New Haven, CT
  Charleton Heston
  University of Connecticut Health Center
  Numerous private collections