βIt's never too late to have a happy childhood.β
Stuart Lehrman asserts that making art is a kinesthetic endeavor. As he negotiates the fault line between order and chaos, "addition and subtraction, making and unmaking" are consistently balanced, accepting mistakes, joyful mishaps, and unanticipated discoveries as avenues for learning. He is always experimenting with the physical properties of various materials in an effort to find innovative and creative solutions to the challenges he has set for himself. In addition to the historical background of creating art, he unlearns and relearns the universal language of the natural and artificial objects he observes in his environment.
Michael Cagno, Executive Director, The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University
Stuart Lehrman began his career on the West Coast, showing his work at galleries in San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, and Dallas. His early work focused on richly colored ceramics and painted wooden and found object sculptures. He relocated to upstate New York in the 1990s and worked as art director for the New York State Health Department. He relocated to the Philadelphia area to teach design courses at Jefferson University (now retired). He lives with his wife and works in his home/studio in Cherry Hill, NJ.