Robin P Antar

President At Realism In Stone Inc.

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Position:

owner at Realism In Stone Inc.

Location:

Greater New York City Area

Industry:

Arts and Crafts

Work:

Education:

Marble/marble stone carving Symposium 2001 - 2012
School of Visual Arts 1976 - 1981
BFA, Sculptor

Skills:

sculptor
stone carver
Art
Contemporary Art
Fine Art
Visual Arts
Arts
Crafts
Modern Art
Teaching
Teaching Adults
Stone
Craft
Mixed Media
Sculpture
Galleries
Public Art
Acrylic
Painting
Art Education
Oil Painting
Curating
Paint
Abstraction
Artists
Studio Art
Art Exhibitions
Marble
Carving
Jewelry Design
Jewelry
Commissioned Art

Interests:

art, sculpture, raw food, cooking, growing sprouts

Honor & Awards:

2008 Work selected to be in a calendar, put out by Mayor Bloomberg’s office, NYC, NY, to honor Artist with disabilities, VSA Arts put the calendar together 2007 Match Up, First Place in Sculpture From www.matchup.com. United Creators, Second Place Prize, Sculptural Pursuit, 4th Annual Competition, 4th Place an Kennedy Productions, National Book, Best of America sculpture artists & artisans Vol 1, Sept. 7 Upstream People Gallery, Award of Excellence for Jacket and 2005 Kennedy Productions, Best of Series for New York Second Place for Sculpture, Thompson Hospitality Publisher of UNITY, Selected to be a Featured Artist in the book 2004 Allied Artist of America – Gold Medal Award of Honor, for Milano Cookies Sculpture Her Story 2004 – Award of Excellence, Manhattan Arts, New York, NY, March 2000 Art Calendar - Cover Competition Winner, The Architect Sourcebook #14 - Awarded Editorial Page

Awards:

NOMINATED FOR THE WYNN NEWHOUSE AWARDS 2012
Congratulations, you are one of 14 artists nominated by our judges for the 2012 Wynn Newhouse Awards. Background about the purpose and history of these awards can be found at www.wnewhouseawards.com. They are awards to top professional fine artists who happen to have disabilities in memory of collector Wynn Newhouse, who had a disability and was aware of the many creative contributions made by persons having disabilities. This year our judges are: J. David Farmer - Director, Dahesh Museum Mark Parsons - Artist, Pratt Institute Kathryn Price - Curator, Williams College Museum of Art Ealan Wingate - Director, Gagosian Gallery
BROOKLYN NEW YORK Artist ROBIN ANTAR WINS PRESTIGIOUS WYNN NEWHOUSE GRANT
Wynn NewHouse Foundation
January 2013, NY – Brooklyn, New York artist and sculptor Robin Antar (www.rantar.com) has won the prestigious WYNN NEWHOUSE Award, it was just announced by the adjudicating committee on January 18th. The Wynn Newhouse awards (www.wnewhouseawards.com) are given to top professional fine artists who happen to have disabilities, in memory of collector Wynn Newhouse, who had a disability and was aware of the many creative contributions made by persons having disabilities. More than 35 artists have been nominated this year. In total eight artists were given the award in the form of monetary grants. This year’s judges for the Wynn Newhouse Awards were comprised of a prestigious panel including J. David Farmer, Director, Dahesh Museum; Mark Parsons, Artist, Pratt Institute; Kathryn Price, Curator, Williams College Museum of Art; and, Ealan Wingate, Director, Gagosian Gallery. Winning artists are invited to participate in an exhibition of their work at the Palitz Gallery in Manhattan, and will be on view from April – June 2013. An informal reception for current and past winners and judges and friends of the program will be held at the Gallery in May.