Joel Iskowitz
Mężczyzna
Urodzony w: New York (Virgin Islands (US)) 15 sierpień 1946.
Obecnie mieszkający: Woodstock (United States of America).
Malarstwo;Joel Iskowitz is one of few living artists to have had his artwork
displayed in the Pentagon, the Capitol and the White House. He
has created artwork for three decades that has graced the
covers of books, periodicals, journals, public spaces, coins and
postage stamps worldwide. He is also an active United States Air
Force (USAF) artist and has a number of oils in the USAF
permanent collection. Mr. Iskowitz has been invited twice to
document Space Shuttle missions and his artwork is on
permanent display at the NASA Kennedy Space Center
Museum. He is the designer of both obverse and reverse of the
New Frontier Congressional Gold Medal which was presented to
the Apollo11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz
Aldrin and Mercury astronaut John Glenn, by the leadership of
the Congress on November16, 2011 in the Rotunda of the
Capitol. The artwork for this medal has earned the Bronze Prize
in the 2012 International Design Awards. Mr. Iskowitz's work has
been featured in many international journals, including profiles of
his numismatic and philatelic art in CoinAGE Magazine,
Watercolor Magazine, American Artist Magazine, and
Smithsonian Profiles; and his murals have been featured in
Exhibit Builder Magazine. He has been awarded both bronze
and silver medals for his corporate illustrations and grand-scale
public art in Portfolios.com international competitions . His
design for the American Numismatic Association’s Presidential
Award won the 2008 silver medal in corporate illustration in the
International Creative Shake competition. His design for the
District of Columbia quarter dollar reverse was displayed at the
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History
and his design for the reverse of the “Illinois” 2009 Abraham
Lincoln Bicentennial Cent is displayed in the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Museum and the New York Historical Society
Museum. His reverse design for the 2011 Medal of Honor
Commemorative Gold Coin is on permanent display in the U.S.
Capitol's Emancipation Hall. Mr. Iskowitz's obverse design for
the Congressional Gold Medal honoring the Nisei Soldiers of
WWII has been displayed in major museums throughout the
United States, including the National World War II Museum, New
Orleans; Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu; Japanese
American National Museum, Los Angeles; De Young Museum,
San Francisco; Oregon History Museum, Portland; Chicago
History Museum, Chicago; and the Holocaust Museum, Houston.
It is on permanent display in “The Price of Freedom,” an
exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American
History in Washington, D.C. A recently completed mural which
chronicles the history of aviation technology has been installed at
the Pentagon at the entry to the Department of the Air Force. A
full scale gicleé of this work is on display at Wright-Patterson
AFB. His most recent large scale painting is installed in Airman's
Hall, the Pentagon and won international recognition in Artslant's
Showcase 2011. Mr. Iskowitz has also received the National
Oceanic and Philatelic Society citation for his contributions to
Space Philately. His obverse design for the Louis Braille Silver
Dollar flew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on its mission to
service the Hubble Telescope. He continues to present his
artwork in illustrated lectures at universities and professional
organizations, including the Fashion Institute of Technology,
Syracuse University, Marywood College, The Society of
Illustrators, Fordham University, Hunter College, Montclair State
University, and the New York Numismatic Club. In 2011 he was
inducted into the Hunter College Hall of Fame.