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War II, the son of John Palermo, Gandi Dancer for
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enlisted in the U.S. Marines in 1958. He subsequently
lived in New York and abroad. In the sense of adventure,
Palermo is an artist who has been everywhere and done
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Marine Corps, he was honorably discharged out of the
service in Spain and spent several months apprenticed
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Back in the U.S. he dealt blackjack for a year in
Las Vegas, managed a doo-wop vocal group called the
Delcos, and was a professional jazz musician. Rejoining
the military, he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts
while serving as an air traffic controller in Paris for
three years. He then served a tour in Vietnam and
was wounded in action as a member of the 19th Air
Commandos.
After leaving the military, he traveled to Africa as a
mercenary on a life-saving mission. He then spent ten Artist Joseph Palermo with his metal sculpture “Nine”

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years living in Spain as a highly respected expatriate
artist. Finally he cast his fate in Las Vegas again, soon
serving as President and Executive Director of the new
Las Vegas Art Museum. In 2003, he co-founded the
Henderson Art Association.
Through all this life-flux, Palermo has remained an
artist first and foremost, a painter and a sculptor. As an
artist, his work has been through many changes, as has “In the Heart of the Las Vegas Art District”
his colorful life. Master of many styles, he has floated
freely among them, adopting and discarding them in Holsum Design Center
an experimental journey that has now brought him to 231 West Charleston Blvd, Suite 160, Las Vegas, Nevada
the innovative frontier of American art. Phone: 702-384-8155
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My Mom, Teri Roberts, was very crafty and multi-
talented. She was a wonderful cook, clothing
designer, dancer, English-style horseback rider,
writer, and a political campaign activist. She
excelled in bookkeeping, too, and headed the tax
receiver’s office of Suffolk County, New York!

I was reared using the both sides of my brain, then
encouraged to follow my dreams!

Thank you, Mom. You are my inspiration.

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“What the World Needs Now” is Art
Now more than ever it is time for the arts to flourish. During the chaos of our
21st century world, it’s vital to keep the arts alive and thriving and it’s up
to all of us to do it. For the 2007 ARTV Awards, we welcome fine artists from
across the USA, as well as from Europe, Japan, and South America ... and
recognize their exceptional talents in the Top 10 categories including oils,
acrylics, watercolor, sculpture, mixed media, drawing, new movement/
media, and public art installation. There also will be a special award given
to the “Artist of the Year.”
As the Creator and Executive Producer of the ARTV International Fine
Art Awards, I am pleased to be producing our all original, one-time-only
production of the 2007 ARTV Awards. Our goal is to create a three-dimen-
sional show for TV and a memorable cultural experience for our live event
audience that will spotlight these fine artists like never before. The Awards
Ceremony also will be taped for television in HD for future broadcast.
I’ve been a long time champion and advocate of the arts. In Las Vegas,
I am a major contributor to UNLV’s Fine Art Gallery, and The Las Vegas Art
Museum and the NAA. As an international activist and educator, I created
art films from Europe to China. My films include documentaries with the BBC
and TVUK, including the Anthony Quinn documentary, “Reflections in the

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Eye, The Final Word” and “Living Famously” in Europe.
The 2005 “Premiere ARTV Fine Art Awards” show was hosted by Cheech
Marin and aired on NBC/BRAVO! television in March 2007. Distributed
around the globe, it is the first fine art awards show ever broadcast to the
world.
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about time for fine artists to be recognized similarly to performance artists
in the music, televison, and cinema. We welcome you to the 2007 ARTV
Fine Art Awards and thank you for your support of fine art and artists. We
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and many surprises.
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CONTENTS

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5 WELCOME by Audrey Roberts
10 THE AWARDS
15 THE JUDGES
16 THE AWARDS NOMINEES
22 SALUTE TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
24 THE PREMIERE ARTV AWARDS - 2005
29 AWARDS HOST MICHELE BALAN
33 2007 AWARDS NOMINEES BY CATEGORY
43 THE ENTERTAINERS
44 THE CHOREOGRAPHER
47 CURATOR SCOTT FERGUSON
48 CREDITS

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“Words fall short of
explaining this rare
technique. One must see
the art, feel it, and touch
it in order to truly
experience the magic.”
Born and raised in a small town near Frankfort,
Germany, Carmen’s career as a Transitional
Abstract Artist was influenced by her father, who
encouraged her to draw when she was a teen-
ager. She refined her craft with formal training
at Pasadena City College in California, and re-
cently relocated with her son, Amir, to Summerlin
in Las Vegas.
Carmen’s unique compositions of life,
color and art have made their way into the
private collections of individuals and businesses
from North America to the British West Indies. Her
art “takes one on an imaginary journey,” she
says, “and no two journeys are alike.”
She descibes her art as a “variety of
color transitions with each transition represent-
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Artist Categories
ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD
NEW MOVEMENT/MEDIA
PUBLIC ART
PAINTING - OILS
PAINTING - ACRYLICS
PAINTING - WATERCOLOR
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The primary mission of the ARTV AWARDS is to spotlight
fine artists, similarly to those artists in the performing arts,
and to raise public awareness, both nationally and
internationally, of upcoming and existing visual artists
from across the USA and around the world.

“Life is too short to remain unnoticed.”
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THE JUDGES

PHILLIP COLLINS
CHIEF CURATOR
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
DALLAS, TEXAS

Phillip Collins is the Chief Curator at the
African American Museum in Dallas. He
is responsible for assisting the Director
with the development and installation of
all exhibitions and museum related edu-
cation prgrams. Mr. Collins assists various
departments with the implementation
of education and public programs. Mr. Collins supervises and
maintains the Museum’s Permanent Collection and is also respon-
sible for creating partnerships with other local and state cultural
institutions.Before assuming his position at the African American
Museum, Dallas, Mr. Collins was the McDermott Post-Graduate
Education Intern at the Dallas Museum of Art, and eventually be-
came a part the Education Department for nine years. His duties
during that time included the development of outreach programs
based on the Museum’s colection, and the training of volunteers
to present the programs to students in private and public schools
in the Dallas area.
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FOUNDER/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO
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Founder of the Hispanic Museum of
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Nevada, Lynette Sawyer serves as
its Executive Director and CEO. She
holds a Masters of Education in Cur-
riculum and Instruction degree as well
as numerous licenses and certfications.
Lynette has served as Assistant Principal,
Learning Strategist, Literacy Specialist, English Language Learner
Specialist, and teacher of Art, Math, Spanish, Language Arts
and Social Studies in both elementary and middle Schools;
as the Chairperson for the Nevada Association of Latin Ameri-
cans, a Trustee for the North Las Vegas Library Board, and
general manager for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice News-
paper. She is recipient of the Professional Business Women’s
Associate of the Year Award, the Latin Chamber of Commerce
Cultural Contributions to the Community Award, and the City
of Las Vegas Outstanding Community Contributions Award.

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CARMEN GRAY
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
CATEGORY: MIXED MEDIA

YUJI KATO
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
CATEGORY:

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MELANIE MOORE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS and
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
CATEGORY:
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MADALINA NICOLA
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
CATEGORY:
PAINTING - ACRYLICS

MICHAEL GODARD
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
CATEGORIES:
PAINTING - ACRYLICS
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KATHLEEN HOULIHAN
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
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CATEGORIES:
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CARLO BENINATI
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
CATEGORY:
PAINTING - OIL

J. ROBERT GRIEGO
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
CATEGORIES:
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DEAN RUBINO
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
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ROYAL RICHARDSON
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BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
CATEGORIES:
KINETIC SCULPTURE
NEW MOVEMENT/MEDIA

SERGEY CHEREP
GEORGIA
CATEGORY:
PAINTING - OILS

VICTOR AGUIRRE
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
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LINCOLN MAYNARD
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
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CATEGORY:
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A SALUTE TO

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
DALLAS, TEXAS

For more than 25 years, the African American Museum has stood as a cul-
tural beacon in Dallas and the Southwestern United States. The Museum was
founded in 1974 as a part of Bishop College Library. Since 1979, it has been
a private non-profit institution under the auspices of the Board of Trustees of
the Foundation for African American Art. The Foundation’s board consists of
60 citizens from Texas who represent business, cultural, philanthropic, edu-
cation, religious and civic constituencies.
In 1985 Dallas voters approved a $1.2 million city bond issue providing for the
construction of a $6.5 million new home for the Museum in Fair Park, a major
cultural and entertainment center
near the center of the city.
The African American Museum is
the only museum in the Southwest-
ern United States devoted to the
preservation and display of African
American artistic, cultural and his-
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Museum incorporates a wide variety
of visual art forms and historical documents that portray the African Ameri-
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selection, acquisition, presentation and preservation of visual art forms and
historical documents that relate to the life and culture of the African Ameri-
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activities serve to assist all people to understand and appreciate the Afri-
can American experience. The Museum’s permanent collections include
African art; African American fine art; magazine, historical, political and
community archives.
The main objective of the Museum is the presentation of meaningful ex-
periences for children and adults who would not ordinarily visit a museum.
The rich heritage of black art and history is housed in four vaulted galleries,
augmented by a research library. Living African American culture is expe-
rienced through entertaining and educational programs presented in the
theater, studio arts area and classrooms.
The African American Museum is located in historic Fair Park in Dallas, Texas,
at the Grand Avenue entrance to the park.

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
P.O. Box 150157
Dallas, Texas 75315-0157
www.aamdallas.org
Telephone: 214-565-9026 or 1- 877 852-3292 toll free
Fax 214- 421-8204

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The Premiere ARTVAwards
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The Premiere ARTV AWARDS event was held on October 28 29th, 2005, in the vibrant city of Las Vegas,
Nevada at the MGM Grand Resort. It was the first ever, red carpet, nationally visible and recognized, visual
international Cheech Marin, famed comic and television actor, gave the show the entertain-
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ing element that kept the audience totally involved.
The event was an active, artistic ‘show,’ with heavy multi-media presentation, similar to other national
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presentations showcasing the artists and their works, and recognition of the sponsors backed with musical
support and celebrity presenters.
The presentation was in ‘Golden Globe Awards’ style, with live music, song, and dance performances on
stage and video screens to enliven the proceedings. There were celebrity presenters of the awards, celeb-
rity interviews, music and art sequences, with a Red Carpet like no other!
Artist nominations in various categories were previously
announced at a pre-awards press party in New York
City on March 4, 2005, and continued each month until
June 2005, culminating at the West Coast press party
and preview at the Museum of TV and Radio in Beverly
Hills, California. Our National Campaign had begun.
Further Publicity and advertising in specific art industry
magazines brought the awards event to the attention
of the North American art world.
MEDIA UNDERGROUND, an award-winning TV/Film
Production company, applied their excellent technical
production skills to the event with fixed and roaming
cameras, special sound capture, and state-of-the-art
Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation
digital video equipment. ARTV provided event plan-

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Sin City Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and friends

the red carpet Red Carpet VIP Host Brandi Williams interviews Alex Quinn.

ning, including fly-ins, reservations, hotel preparation, Ray of North Carolina arrived in style in a leather outfit
showroom preparation, including the showroom and and riding a colorful custom painted chopper motor-
celebrity lounge, and planning and production of cycle. California mixed media artist and award winner
other events supporting the 2005 ARTV Awards.
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McKenzie, along with her entire family, stepped out of a

a glittering, star-studded affair with a legion of sleek
limousines and lots of excitement and surprises. The Sin artv
Art lovers and fine artists from across the nation were in
attendance for this historic awards event. Awards nomi-
City Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence made a splashy nees came from New York, international
Texas, California, Missouri,
entrance. VIP host Brandi Williams of TV’s “Ultimate Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Massachusetts,
Poker Challenge” greeted celebrities including ARTV
Awards host and movie legend Cheech Marin; Alex
Quinn, actor and son of actor-artist Anthony Quinn,
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Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Louisiana hoping to win top
honors and take home a beautiful carved glass “Muse”

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statuette created for the ARTV Awards by Michael Ray.
and Kathleen Quinn, his widow. Glass artist Michael
California artist McKenzie and family arrived in a vintage Chevy.

North Carolina glass artist and award nominee Michael Ray arrived on the
Red Carpet in leather and riding his customized choppper.

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The Premiere ARTVAwards
VIP reception

Audrey Roberts, Creator and Producer An art lover with Michael Ray Lucy Stewart and Nancy Hill

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Louisiana Artist Thad Morgan

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“Artist of the Year” Joseph Palermo

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Michele Balan is our ARTV Awards host, promising to delight guests with her unique
brand of hilarious comedy. One of four finalists on NBC’s 2006 “Last Comic Standing,”
she was voted one of the “Top 10 Comics” by Backstage Magazine in 2004. Michele
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Balan is a brash, New York stand-up comedian who has performed on Comedy Central
as well as in top comedy clubs, theatres, festivals and on cruises all over the country.
Often told she was naturally funny, the Brooklyn native left a high-paying executive
position at a computer company to pursue comedy – and she has been performing
ever since.

Michele got her start as a “female female-impersonator,” doing lip sync impressions of
Bette Midler. Now people tell her she is like a “Female George Burns with many one-
liners.” Michele’s career has taken her from The Improv in Los Angeles to Caroline’s
on Broadway in New York City, and from the Montreal “Just For Laughs Festival” to the
“Dinah Shore Women’s Weekend.”

Michele has shared the stage with Kathy Najimy, Jennifer Holiday, Taylor Dayne, Harvey
Fierstein, Bruce Vilanch and Nell Carter. In 1999 she recorded a CD at The Improv
in Los Angeles that features Nell Carter singing a song parody that Michele wrote.
Michele recently recorded the critically acclaimed DVD entitled “LIVE, Just Barely” at
the famed Joe’s Pub, home to the public theatre and performers such as Joan Rivers,
Eartha Kitt and Leslie Gore, for whom she just wrote a comedy segment.

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ROYAL ARTS STUDIO

“Gabriel” “A Rose Garden”

“Castor”
The kinetic sculptures
of Royal Miree are
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His one-of-a-kind
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magazines and have

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received numerous top fine art awards.
These precision sculptures of mirror
polished stainless steel and aluminum “A River Runs Through It”

celebrate a unique understanding of
movement and delicate balance. Activated
by touch or wind, the sculptures are
fluid, figurative images performing with
efficiency and simplicity. To view the
sculptures or to contact the artist visit

www.RichardMiree.com
Royal Richardson Miree
640 19th Terrace South, Birmingham, AL 35205
phone: 205-252-1923
e-mail: r3miree@bellsouth.net

MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Flery Bursey
Flery Bursey wrote his first song, “The Moon is Shining Tonight,” on the Hutchins
Jr. high school auditorium piano in the summer of 1963. That set him on a
path that would earn him the titles of writer, arranger, producer, conductor,
recording artist, author, composer, inventor, nationalist, vocalist, playwright,
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church organist and gospel minister. And like the kids use to say “he’s all that
and a bag of chips.”
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Flery’s talents have touched the lives of artists such as Marvin Gaye, Mary
Wells, Harvey Fuqua, Barry White, and L.J. Reynolds just to name a few.
Through the 1960s, the ‘70s, the ‘80s, the ‘90s and into the new millennium,

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Flery stays ahead of the current trends.
“No one has to tell me if I have a hit,” Flery says. “I’m from the old school
and when we write a song, we have to know. That’s what makes us viable
as producers.”
Flery is inspired by the music of Bach, Berstine, and Bacharach, and says
as one of the “B’s,” he’s following in their footsteps. Like Cole Porter, Flery is
also an accomplished lyricist, writing thought provoking lyrics to most of his
100-plus songs. Flery says he loves the “message song” and believes that the
world can be changed with love.
Flery’s music has been played by orchestras in New York, Detroit, Houston,
Los Angles, and most recently at the Orleans showroom in Las Vegas, where
he currently resides.
A multi-instrumentalist playing the keyboards, horns, and strings, he has also
been one of the vocalists with Lou Ragland’s world famous “Ink Spots” for
the past seven years. Where does he get the energy? Who knows. We just
know we can look for the name of Flery Bursey to be popping up all over the
place for many years to come.

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Congratulations to all the
ARTV Fine Art Award Nominees
Boys Girls Clubs of Las Vegas
Fine Art Showcase, Auction Reception
OF LAS VEGAS
Thursday, November 8, 2007
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

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Johnny Brenden and Jenna Michael Morton cordially invite you and your guests to an
evening of fun and the opportunity to discover the beautiful artwork from the talented
members of the Boys Girls Clubs of Las Vegas. You’ll also have a chance to meet our
celebrity guest artist, Jennifer Main, who with the help of the Boys Girls Clubs of
Las Vegas members, created the exclusive Chalk Art Project.
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the subject matter. In addition, encouraging children to express themselves through the Arts has proven to have psychological
and therapeutic benefits as well. Your support will enable us to develop our arts program and reach and impact more of the
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FRANKI LOVE
“All I want to do with music is give it to others ... share my
heart and soul,” says Franki Love.

Named the “Female Singer/Songwriter of the Year” at the
L.A. Music Awards 2004, Franki’s song, “Shadow” won the
“Adult Contemporary Single of the Year” award from the
L.A. Music Awards in 2005. The ASCAP, a membership as-
sociation of more than 300,000 U.S. composers, songwrit-
ers, lyricists, and music publishers, presented Franki with its
“Popular Award” 2004-2007.

“Franki Love,” her soulful
debut album, is now out
and can be purchased at
www.FrankiLove.com.

Franki has composed mu-
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cluding a recent project for Tony Kaye, director of “American
History X.” A documentary based on Franki and her music
“The Franki Love Story” is in development.

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Alayne Abrahams
Kathleen Houlihan

MIXED MEDIA
Carmen Gray
Lincoln Maynard
Melanie Moore

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J. Robert Griego
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Carlos Beninati
Sergey Cherep
Beti Kristof
Dean Rubino

PAINTING - WATERCOLORS
Alayne Abrahams
Yuji Kato

PUBLIC ART
Delia Solari
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SCULPTURE
Victor Aguirre
J. Robert Griego

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Dean Rubino
Since his childhood, Dean
Rubino has had two passions:
art and sports. Over the last
decade, he has worked on
incorporating both as one. He
grabs the viewers by focusing
on the action and movement of
an athlete. Dean’s use of color
and concept has shown unique style, reflecting
the energy and excitement on canvas.

At the age of 17, Dean received two honored
grants attending SUNY Farmingdale, Long Island,
New York. Over the two years, he learned how to
sketch the human figure which he uses today.

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He moved to Las Vegas and received his degree
in Fine Art. It was out west that Dean developed
his unique style of painting sports athletes in an
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acrylics are related to Leroy Neiman’s
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As far back as he could remember
he always wanted to become a
sports artist. Painting sports figures and
capturing great moments on canvas
keeps him connected to his favorite
teams and athletes of past and
present generations. Now at 31, this
inspiring artist is on the path to fulfilling
his dream.

“There’s nothing more exciting in life
than doing what you love.”

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Nominated in ARTV’s Mixed Media
category, artist Lincoln Maynard
has spent most of his life amidst the

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ern deserts. This environment has
molded a perspective that pulls the
scale and spectrum of his surround-
ings into his current contemporary
series of acrylic and mixed media
abstracts. Architectural in scope, his
work has evolved through ongoing
explorations with various mediums
and ecologically conscious methods, hence, creating a diverse
catalogue of works.
His decades spent in theatrical design built an appreciation for cre-
ating on an oversized scale while concentrating on the reflection
of every detail. His recent series of paintings are environmental
designs titled “Rhythms of the Earth.” Other works include textural
studies in line, form, and light.
Taken as a series or individually, each piece mirrors the whole or a
focused part of the objects, atmospheres, architecture, people,
and the life that surrounds him.
Lincoln Maynard’s work is acquisitioned by both private and
corporate collectors. His artwork is continuously on exhibit in
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He studied all of the classic forms of art, including European art
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