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About
the Artist
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Year
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Tom
Krakar was born in Midland, Pennsylvania in 1935. He started out as a sign
painter at an early age and later worked in Advertising Art and Graphic Design
in the Pittsburgh area.
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Mr. Krakar's formal education in Art was at Youngstown State University where
he reached his B.F.A. In 1977. Although he started college at age 36, he has
always worked in the Art field. Mr. Krakar did his graduate work at Kent State
University and Youngstown State in Ohio where he was teaching Art in the Continuing
Education Department and working as Painting Supervision for YSU. |
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Journey into Space |
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Among
his many outside interests, he is a freelance photographer and taught photography
for three years at the Youngstown Boys Club.
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Mr.
Krakar's work is in numerous private collections thorough Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Michigan, New York, Toranto, Canada, Belgrade, Yugoslavia and Zagreb,
Croatia. He has had numerous one man shows and many commissions both in the
private and business sectors. |
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Mr.
Krakars paintings have been displayed at the Butler Institute of American
Art in many Juried shows including the Annual Area Artist show, the Canfield
Fair, Youngstown Playhouse, Union Bank John Young Art Festival in Youngstown,
Maag Library, Cleveland, Mayshow, Three Rivers Art, Pittsburgh, PA and
others.
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Cosmic Rose |
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Articles about Mr. Krakar and his work have appeared in the "Jambar",
and newspapers such as the Youngstown Vindicator, Midland News, Beaver County
Times, Canfield Courier, Cleveland, Plain Dealer, and the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette. |
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Mr.
Krakar is a prolific painter who works on large canvases and completes several
paintings each month. His technique is a combination of spontaneous splash
woven in and out of a grid system that includes rectangles of various sizes
and works primarily in oil and acrylics. The paintings are visually exciting
in shape, color, form and movement. The overall composition has a great
visual impact on the viewer. |
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Mr.
Krakar began his career with numerous drawings and paintings as a landscape
and portrait artist and later, upon entering the University, he was introduced,
by his teacher and nationally known artist Jon Naberezny, to Abstract Impressionism
and has concentrated all his efforts in this area ever since.
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Mr. Krakar's work
was being represented
by the JRB Gallery in Youngstown and also galleries in Boardman and Warren,
OH. He is currently maintaining a studio in the Orlando area where he now
resides
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For Questions, Prices, or
Availability of Original Art work created by Mr. Krakar
E-mail Tom
Krakar: Tomoslav@aol.com or
Call 407-971-2449
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Total
web design, graphics, & photos by: Tom
Wall
Visit www.ucfknight.com
E-mail: TomWall@ucfknight.com |
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Artist
retains all reproduction rights. It is illegal to reproduce any art or images
displayed on this website in part or in whole without written consent from the
artist, Tom Krakar. Copyright Tom Krakar 2001. |
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