Banning Lary

“I create UltraRealistic paintings with interesting compositions, intriguing shapes and bold colors.”



Banning began painting in the early 1970s in California where he sold his work along the Venice boardwalk. After briefly attending art school he began to teach himself to paint by copying expressionist works of Gauguin, Matisse, Van Gogh, Chagall, and other modern masters. He experimented with different styles and media, producing hundreds of paintings in oil, acrylic, mixed media and making assemblages while working in Los Angeles, Miami and Austin. His work resides in many in private collections from Beverly Hills to Scottsdale to Palm Beach, now enjoyed by Oscar winners, professionals, and art lovers of all vocations. Visually challenged, he is drawn to bright colors and how they tell stories whether serious, whimsical, or thought provoking, often using his travel photos as source material. He holds a PhD in psychology and his award-winning educational documentaries are in the permanent collections of over 7,500 academic libraries around the world. Banning is a student of life and art and loves to engage in conversation about art, life, philosophy or about any other subject with creative and thoughtful minds. His paintings a...

Doctor of Philosophy (psychology) Walden University
Masters of Science (Psychology) Walden University
Allstate Contractor's College
Mission: Renaissance Art School
UCLA Extension Playwriting Seminar
ACTV video producer's workshop
Arthur Wise Real Estate School
University of Texas at Austin
University of Miami
Miami-Dade Junior College
Miami Palmetto High School
Fork Union Military Academy

WEBSITES: www.catharcism.com
Round Rock Arts Council juried show
aether (magazine covers)
MOFAA Christmas Show
AVAA Show Display, winter
Snap n’splat - Austin
Museum of Fine Art Austin, featured artist, Winter
AVAA Show, Fall
“Can You Compute?” Feature story, U.S. ART, May
Live painting demonstration, Leo Burnett
AVAANTI 10 Retrospective, juried.
Exhibit J, juried, Spring
“Electronic Impressionism,” article: Digital Fine Art, Winter 1999.
Electronic Impressionism , Fairchild Gardens, Miami
25th Anniversary Show -- AVAA.
Cathartic Aestheticism, avaanti
AVAANTI 10 -- selected as one of ten featured artists
Cathartic Aestheticism, Chow Ciao! (solo)
Cathartic Aestheticism, Hyde Park (solo)
Exhibit I, Austin Visual Arts Assn. (invitational)
Ponderosa Stampede, mural 8' X 84', River Place CC
Reunion, mural 14' X 56', Common Market Cafe
Full Range of Motion, 3rd Place for KOBE.
Post-Apocalyptic Pagan Deconstructivism, (juried)
Exhibit H, Austin Visual Arts Assn. (Invitational)
Copy Art, juried finalist.
ART @ Large exhibit, St. Edwards University
War Stories, eight assemblages on canvas, Dobie Theatre.
Recent Retrospective, West End Cafe
Slash Paintings, Katz's
Emotional Expressionism, Dobie Theatre
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