Barry Markowitz

Barry Markowitz, born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., became an artist at a very early age. His passion for drawing and painting led him to the High School of Art & Design in Manhattan, graduating in 1964. He went directly into a career of illustration and design in New York City. After several years in advertising he missed painting, moved to California and concentrated on Fine Arts at UCSB and Cal State Northridge. Through the following decades Mr. Markowitz has continued to be a painter, showing in galleries and museums, as well as a freelance designer and art director for film and television. He was a performance artist (receiving 2 Rockefeller Honorariums) through the 70’s, produced multi media shows for the New Music Festivals at the Hollywood Bowl, taught Performance Art workshops at Cal Arts and was a creative director for Ray M. Johnson Studios, Positive Response Television: Infomercials (80’s-90’s). Mr. Markowitz was awarded the J.Paul Getty Fellowship for painting in 1996. He has straddled the two worlds of Fine Art and Commercial Art his entire career and has recently added teaching. He teaches drawing, painting and written expression for artists at Cal. State LA, design at the University of LaVerne, and advanced drawing and non-traditional painting at the Los Angeles High School of the Performing Arts. His passion for drawing and painting (the artist’s life) continues unabated.