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An example of work by Gary Akers
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Tree's Place Gallery:
| Gary Akers , born 1951 in Pikesville, Kentucky. After completing
a Master’s degree at Morehead State University in 1974, and spending
the next year on a Greenshields Foundation Grant furthering his egg
tempera work and studies, Akers became a full time artist in 1976.
Since then, his work has been exhibited widely in numerous museums and
institutions including the Speed Art Museum, the Frye Museum of Art,
the Ogunquit Art Museum, the Asheville Art Museum, the National Academy
of Design, the Artists of America exhibition at the Colorado History
Museum, and the Great American Artists exhibition at the Cincinnati
Museum Center.
In addition to his egg tempera paintings, Akers is a highly accomplished
watercolorist, and has received major awards from the American
Watercolor Society (where he is an elected Signature Member), the
Southern Watercolor Society, and the Kentucky Watercolor Society.
Over the past two decades, Akers has been featured in various books and periodicals including American
Artist, Watercolor, Artist’s Magazine, U.S. Art,Back Home in Kentucky,
Southwest Art, Kentucky Images, Being an Artist, The Creative Artist,
and The New Spirit of Watercolor.
Two books solely about Akers have been published, each with images of over one hundred of his paintings: Kentucky: Land of Beauty (1999), and Memories of Maine (2003).
He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in Emerging Leaders in America, and American Artists of Renown.
With his wife Lynn and their daughter Ashley (both also artists), Gary
Akers alternates his residence and studio between Kentucky and Maine. |
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