Self Portrait with Yellow Background  2007,  36" x 60"   Oil on linen

The Artist 

Mark LaRiviere has had many exhibitions of paintings and has been invited to show work in many group shows. He was a member of the Bowery Gallery in New York, was invited to have a one person show and a two person show at the Painting Center in New York in 1994 and 1995. He has had paintings shown at the National Academy of Design and the National Arts Club in New York, as well as in various galleries in New York City.

Mark LaRiviere have been painting steadily since completing graduate work in 1981, studying with Paul Resika, Leland Bell and John Heliker. He traveled to Italy in 1983 to study early and late Renaissance paintings. He returned to New York in 1984 to receive a Charles H. Revson Fellowship through the New York Studio School.

LaRiviere spent five summers in France studying paintings in Paris and the Cave paintings in the Dordogne Region, before moving to upstate New York to spend his summers painting and gardening.

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