Occupation: Painter Media: Oil, Miscellaneous Media. Born Toledo, Ohio, March 29, 1948.
Education Otis Art Inst, 65. Univ Judaism, 68-71. private studies with mentor since childhood.
Teaching Positions Gifted Children's Prog, Otis-Parsons, Los Angeles (formerly); lectr, mus & univs; TV appearances.
Commissioned Works Portraits, comn by Audrey & Billy Wilder, Los Angeles, California, Henry Mancini, Los Angeles, Eileen & Peter Norton, Los Angeles, Victoria Principal, Beverly Hills & Anna & Rupert Murdoch, New York.
Public Works Art Museum South Texas, Corpus Christi; Atlantic Richfield Co, Anchorage, Alaska; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles Music Center, California.
Exhibitions Recent Acquisitions, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; Contemporary Southern California Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan & Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, 87; Hollywood: Portraits of Stars, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, 88; Solo exhib, Some Members of My Family (with catalog), Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, 88 & Art Museum S Texas, Corpus Christi, 89; Images of the Art World, Platt Gallery, Univ Judaism, Los Angeles, 97.
Bibliography Adele Yellin (author), Maskerade, Los Angeles Style Magazine, 11/92; Bingo Wyre (author), Frame and Glory, Town & Country Mag, 11/92; Suzanne Muchnic (author), The Lost art of portraits, Los Angeles Times/Sunday Calendar, 8/21/94; William Wilson (author), Images, Focuses on the Artist as Subject, Los Angeles Times, 97; Margaret Kennedy (author), Hold that pose, House Beautiful, 9/99.
Publications About Face (exhib catalog), by Jim Edwards, Art Museum S Texas, Corpus Christi, 84; American Art Today: The Portrait (exhib catalog), by Dr. William Betsch, Art Museum Florida, Miami, 5/8-6/3, 87; Contemporary Southern California Art (exhib catalog), by Marie de Alcuaz, Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 87; Some Members of My Family: The work of Sylvia Shap (exhib catalog), by Jim Edwards, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 5/31-6/10, 88; Insatiable Desires (exhib catalog), by Lillian H Choy & others, USC Fisher Gallery, 3/2-4/16, 2005.
Areas of Interest Contemporary realism & portraiture.
