Truckin Lawrence Wheatman

Native New Yorker, born, raised and always lived in Manhattan (although currently displaced by Covid for safety), artist all my life, actively exhibiting for 40 years, teaching art at NYU for 32 years, mentor, curator, juror, gallerist. Formerly full-time performing singer-songwriter produced by Felix Pappalardi.

Dad taught me darkroom before I was 5, otherwise self-taught. Inspiration from Man Ray, Gary Winogrand, Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol. Mentors include Marcia Sheer, Len Spier, Trevor Brown, Lee Romero, Dan Burkholder, and many dozens of my thousands of students.

Forty or so solo shows, participant in 200 or more group shows. Portfolio reviewer of four to six thousand artists, juror of hundreds of competition submissions