About the Artist

Bernard Zalon - Biography

MY LIFE IN A NUTSHELL

Born in Brooklyn, NY 1951

Began studying architecture at CCNY in 1970

Sold plastic flowers on the streets of NY in the summer of 1971

Received a Bachelor of Architecture Degree in 1973

Took a printmaking course at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School in 1974

Got sick of architecture and started selling hand colored offset prints on the street in 1974

Quit architecture in 1975

Began studying etching at the Art Students League in 1981 and stayed there for 40 years except for 

six months in 1983 at the Institut Des Arts D'Iselles in Brussels, Belgium

After COVID I left the Art Students League for the aptly named Guttenberg Arts in Guttenberg,  NJ

 

 

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