Lekstutis
means "Nightingale" in Lithuanian.
This is ironic because no one in my family can whistle.
(Frank@Lekstutis.com)frank
lekstutis graphic design, production and project management skills see my samples
handles sophisticated projects from start to finish design & production
guru for advertising, packaging and corporate identity plans and creates any
kind of mockup thrives deep in the trenches at any hour unique ability to design
and create automated displays highly skilled in quark, illustrator, photoshop
and dreamweaver (mac and pc) pre-press preparation for a wide range of media
creates award winning web graphics history freelance january 1995- present j.
walter thompson- computer and traditional comps and production mccann erickson-
hands on artist for presentations and prototypes dugan valva contess- designed
award winning web animation peter pan records- designed, wrote and produced
cd packaging & display ignite technologies- designed complete identity package
touchscreen media- production for nba web site and star trek cd-rom body centered
clinics- designed complete identity package teknekron division of reuters- designed
complete identity package lintas june 1990-january 1995 computer & traditional
comps and production for ibm, diet coke, maybelline, lever matthieu, gerfen
& bresner january 1982-may 1990 studio manager / senior designer creating
advertising and packaging perrier, remy martin, carlsberg, moosehead, alfa romeo,
libby’s, sandoz, new york air, pentax jordan, case & mcgrath september
1980-january 1982 assistant art director / in house photographer for aetna,
hanes, mennen oxy-5, the public theater education school of visual arts new
york university multimedia center bachelor of arts hofstra university member
aiga learning leaders artworks volunteer.
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ice machines all images on my website are available as ultrachrome prints. this is a pigment ink process that exceeds chemical photography in longevity and color gamut. they are printed on 13 x 19 glossy paper.also mentioned in time out #412 aug 21, 2003 and brooklyn free press 1/8 page, august 8. summer's coolest photographs? staten island advance / arts & ideas sunday august 03, 2003 full color, front page (text only shown here) by michael j. fressola searching for perfect coolness? check out frank lekstutis' photo exhibit, 'ice machines,' in dumbo. how could there be anything cooler than "ice machines," a 13-piece color series by island-based photographer frank lekstutis that's chilling at frameworks in dumbo through the end august. for reasons that aren't always clear as commercial ice (which attains a pristine level of clarity you cannot achieve in your home ice-maker), lekstutis has been taking photographs of those refrigerator-like ice-chests sitting near stores and cheesy motels for 25 years now. "crystal clear" and "serve yourself!" say the encouraging signs on some (but not all) machines. these innocuous-seeming conveniences, so familiar and numerous in suburban and rural places, may not be final entries on a list of photographic possibilities, but they are down towards the end. right? after hairballs and old shoe laces? lekstutis, however, knows that there are no small subjects, just small photographers. the photographs are handsomely composed and when they've been manipulated (mostly it's a matter of artful blurriness), it's done reasonably. a severely-rear-ended impala sits next to one larger-than-average cabinet, "barely nicked it" is the caption. the photographer found ice machines and cruise ships together for a photograph with a palpable coolness. another, titled "titanic" has the machine, but suggests the disaster. "point pleasant" in which a machine sits outside a little cedar-shake place, is somehow brave and touching. "ice machines" with all works at 13 by 19 inches is bigger than its subject, which is what art is supposed to do. frameworks, at 81 washington st., is a small street-level brick-walled frame shop, in one of the handsome old dumbo (down under the manhattan (and) brooklyn overpasses) with a modest amount of wallspace for changing shows. it is just a few blocks from the fulton landing, just steps from the brooklyn bridge and one of the most spectacular parks in the city. and if "ice machines" has led to thoughts of well, ice, and ice cream, then look no further. some experts say that the brooklyn ice cream factory, right there in fulton park, makes the best ice cream in the city. but the egger's and sedutto factions may have their own ideas. hours at frameworks for "ice machines" are monday through friday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (larry rivers' last show) east hampton star opinion: naughty and nice valentines by robert long "the insane lords of love" is the name of an eclectic and enjoyable show of real and metaphorical valentines that range from bloody to sweet; it is on view at the ae gallery in east hampton. about 60 artists were invited to contribute work in commemoration of valentine's day, and they responded with everything from an arrow shot through a pig's heart and barbie on a funeral pyre to confectionary collages and an homage to the supremes: something for everyone, as they say. "pilgrim barbie" seems enraptured though she's about to be immolated. she looks smart in a scarlet dress with a white bib, and her smile is broad, though the artist, frank lekstutis, had to break both her arms in order to tie them to a stake over her head. she stands on a pile of logs neatly arranged over an amber floodlight that suggests tongues of flame. her transgression, hinted at by the color of her dress, is confirmed by the delicate letter a that appears on her forehead. not far away, a braided whip of red nylon rope by mojo jones hangs menacingly, and just down the wall there's that impaled pig's heart, leaking a trail of gelatinous red goo in a large color xerox, "my bloody valentine," by frank roccanova. jeff marshall has contributed a scabrous-looking box with a hole at its center that is filled with nubby latex, which you are encouraged to palpate. its title, "please," tells us that this is a work about yearning. not all the works are naughty. bill durham's straightforward drawing of a female nude has the sinuousness of matisse and something of the flavor of that artist's late cut-out drawings as well. the woman is a white silhouette seen in a dark green and black bedroom indicated by just a few strokes. through a window, a yellow moon sits in a dark blue sky. in michael weisman's simply outlined portrait of the singing supremes on a plain hot pink ground, their forms are stretched horizontally, as if they were passing us on the side of a bus. peter dayton's wonderfully syrupy picture of a pair of "love birds," about a yard high and in bright digital colors that have the vaguely toxic look of color xeroxes, look almost predatory as they gaze at us impassively from their perches, set against an eerie turquoise background. more conventional valentines were supplied by robert curtis, in a beautiful fringed gray leather pillow with a big pink heart at its center, and donald baechler, who drew a quivery heart in watery pastel on a sheet of his stationery. "long tall drink of water" is an animated jim gingerich pastel of a nude woman in hectic colors. the photographer peter ngo is represented by a color print of a stripper stepping out of what looks like a huge champagne glass, high over our heads. you get the sense that you're in a real dive but there's a veneer of las vegas to the image, and the photographer's point of view gives it the disorienting effect of a garry winogrand picture, as if it had been snapped on the run. "stiffened giblets" dennis murphy's "pamela and harold," on the other hand, is a confrontational closeup image of a man and a woman at a restaurant table loaded to the point of collapse with stemware. they seem to be in full conversational flight and in full party mode; you can all but hear loud conversation. the colors are just about garish. you're drawn in even as you feel the urge to step back. there's evidence of what tom wolfe refers to as "stiffened giblets" in david porter's cut-out aluminum sculpture of a dancing man and in larry rivers's "jim carroll exposed." it's a pencil-on-shaped-canvas piece - an early example of mr. rivers's work in that format - in which the eponymous poet, best known for his memoir "the basketball diaries" and his musical activities, is seen as a young man, sitting at a little desk, with an erection. unusual works by andy warhol and robert mapplethorpe are included. the former is represented by two enlarged frames from his film "blue movie," in which viva and lou engage in a sexual act. mr. mapplethorpe's little polaroid of "arnold and lana" shows us an early-1970s-looking couple, he in a modified prince valiant haircut, she in a miniskirt, the two perched on a sofa looking lovey-dovey. bob colacello, who edited warhol's interview magazine, is showing a photo he took of "mick and bianca" smooching - more 1970s nostalgia. and speaking of interview, there's a framed cover of a very early issue that features the actor don johnson, at 19, posing nude in a publicity photo. two panels from a series of mixed media works by alex echo refer obliquely in scrawled words and collaged photos and drawing, all under epoxy, to the artist's own autobiography, though the sense of a struggle between confinement and liberation is readily communicated. you can watch tony johnson's computer-animated film, "valentine machine," on a little television monitor: the firing of an arrow by cupid sets into motion a series of rube goldberg-like events that culminate in cupid firing his arrow all over again. there's lots more, including surprising contributions from people we don't normally think of as visual artists, such as east hampton town supervisor jay schneiderman and alec baldwin, and it's all a great deal of fun. the show runs through friday, march 15. frank lekstutis shows 2003 "ice machines" photography at frameworks dumbo, brooklyn 2002 “insane lords of love” group show at alex echo gallery, east hampton finalist in the 2001 long beach island foundation for the arts juried competition juror: shamim momin; branch curator, whitney museum of american art at philip morris, new york finalist in the 2001 northern national art competition in chicago juror: ed paschke guest portrait artist for the 2001 nassau county museum of art charity ball features june 2003 cbs sunday news for learning leaders full page color feature article in house magazine, jan/feb 2001 issue “using computers for portraits” half page article in dan's papers, fine arts section, fall 2001 highlighted by the east hampton star in their review of the valentine’s day show at a.e. gallery education hofstra university nyu digital technology school of visual arts volunteer teacher and guide for learning leaders: arThe Nightingale Near the House Harold Monro, 1879 Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn: It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond Stares. And you sing, you sing. That star-enchanted song falls through the air From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound, Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground; And all the night you sing. My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee As all night long I listen, and my brain Receives your song; then loses it again In moonlight on the lawn. Now is your voice a marble high and white, Then like a mist on fields of paradise, Now is a raging fire, then is like ice, Then breaks, and it is dawn.tworks bringing art appreciation to new york city 3rd graders the poetry of ice machines serve yourself, party ice crystal clear blocks and cubes ice sold, see in bar 24 hour self service ice serve yourself, cubex ice ice live bait ice sold inside store not self service, see clerk inside packaged ice ice cubes-cracked-block never out of ice 300 pound cake cube block ice / beer crystal clear remember- pick up more ice cubes lug a chug sea isle ice ice sold here! dry ice wow kool ice and seafood party ice reddy ice just ice police slice twice thrice not ice splice spice liquorice remove bag after each sale i only have ice for you event title: ice machiness what it is: 13 images by frank lekstutis where: frameworks dumbo 81 washington street brooklyn, ny 11201 map when: all through july hours: 10-7 mon-fri, 10-5 sat contact gallery at 718-237-1400 for holiday hours on the web at: www.lekstutis.com/ice ice machines: thirteen images selected from a collection of hundreds of photographs of ice machines frank has taken over the last 25 years. this is not a retrospective, this is new art created from these photographs. utilizing printing technology that exceeds conventional photo printing, he has finally actualized his vision for these pieces. he uses handheld camera techniques to add softness and animation to the scenes. the film exposures are digitally altered to create areas of high saturation and sharpness camouflaged within seemingly mundane surroundings. the titles suggest that these are something other than documentary recordings of ice machines. something is going on here. the machines are corroded but useful, expressing an uneasy cheeriness in spite of endured neglect and abuse. there is no humanity here, just ice waiting for a party. they are functional monoliths proclaiming their contents with frosty typography. a sign saying "serve yourself" glows through the night, how appropriate, how cool. frank lekstutis "after graduating with a bfa from hofstra university, frank lekstutis led a bohemian lifestyle, hanging out with other young artists and embracing creativity. then, like most of us, he realized he had to make a living. he ventured into graphic design around 1980 and was drawing logos and packages for perrier. when "everything went computer," as frank puts it, he was "in a state of shock." with his steady hands and advanced technical ability, he felt he could "beat the computer." he freelanced around, working on accounts such as jello and diet coke, and came to terms with the fact that he had to get computer savvy. after familiarizing himself with the basics, he attended school of visual arts and has had his digital act together ever since." 2001 dan‘s papers, fine arts section, amy johns ice, the forgotten food first and foremost, ice is a food. in fact, people consume more ice, nearly two pounds per person per day, than they do bread. water and ice, the only difference is temperature. if you don’t trust your tap water, then how can you trust the ‘frozen water’ made in your freezer at home? be cognizant, when consuming ice, of the manufacturing source. we recommend that you stay away from ice stored in open bins, as in some hotel facilities. as well as from packaged ice produced and bagged in the back room of convenience stores. do you value the flavor and taste of the beverages you consume? of course you do. while some consumers realize the ‘cloudy freezer’ ice at home tastes ‘funny’, many do not consider the alternatives for clear, tasteless and odorless ice. only the professional commercial ice producers provide ice that is truly taste-free, clear, and risk-free. excerpted from the international packaged ice association
the nightingale near the house harold monro, 1879 here is the soundless cypress
on the lawn: it listens, listens. taller trees beyond listen. the moon at the
unruffled pond stares. and you sing, you sing. that star-enchanted song falls
through the air from lawn to lawn down terraces of sound, darts in white arrows
on the shadowed ground; and all the night you sing. my dreams are flowers to
which you are a bee as all night long i listen, and my brain receives your song;
then loses it again in moonlight on the lawn. now is your voice a marble high
and white, then like a mist on fields of paradise, now is a raging fire, then
is like ice, then breaks, and it is dawn.
portrait website fine art portraits painted on canvas from photo portraits by frank lekstutis i paint portraits on canvas. modern, colorful and dramatic. order a portrait online from a photo. portrait, paint, canvas, executive, pet, house, fine, personal, dramatic, decorator portraits, portrait, paint, canvas, portrait artist, from photo, personal portrait, executive portrait, gift portrait, wedding portrait, pet portrait, house portrait, commission portrait, portfolio,studio, gift portraits, fine art, design, decorator, order online, wild portraits, high end home page: portraits by frank lekstutis welcome to my portfolio. i create portraits on canvas and as prints on fine paper. you can comment about a specific piece, and request a free sample. just click on an image. your interest is greatly valued. i've hidden a concealed click which wins a valuable prize for you! let's talk soon, menu: before & after example view portfolio by style : dramatic/wild/natural view by # of panels 1 - 2 -4 - more view all portraits about the portraits mona lisa by the yard order a portrait frank@lekstutis.com* 214 seidman avenue staten island ny 10312 ( 718 ) 967- 9043 *feel free to contact me * i have placed email links throughout the site. note: not all browsers are set up to send e-mail directly from webpages if you're experiencing difficulties, address your e-mail to: flex79@earthlink.net if all else fails, call me at 718-967-9043. back to "before & after" page homepage: roll on & off image to view before & after. i've created the first portrait for many of my subjects. they like my work because it makes immortality fun! about page: i create portraits from photographs, meticulously interpreted with computer. style and color ranges from photo realistic to vividly colorful. sizes vary from small paper prints to very large canvases. patrons include decorators, fashion designers, entertainment and business notables. my work is in the collection of the nassau county museum of art. i'm a member of the american society of portrait artists. full story: i am a traditionally schooled painter and printer. i've been creating art on the computer for nearly a decade. my goal is to communicate with clarity and drama.* i paint vividly colorful portraits, with a refined finish. the portraits are not limited to just one frame of the subject. by creating multiple panels, the portrait becomes kaleidescopic. frames can include family members, business partners, pets, anything. there was a notion that "real" art can't be created on the computer. more recently, collectors and critics appreciate how artists use computers to get results that are impossible by other means. the pieces take weeks to create. most of my work starts with photographs supplied by my clients. occasionally, i'll arrange a photo shoot. once the photo is entered into my computer, i redevelop facial contours with the "kindest" of lenses. if needed, i'll blend several perspectives very subtly into one image. it all looks totally natural, and heightens the drama of expression. i can add or remove jewelry, modify or replace clothing. (eye pix) over this "template" i model a completely original surface, resulting in a face sculpted in smooth marble. particular attention is paid to the eyes and mouth. it is not unusual to spend several days on them. the eyes are drawn using interesting reflections and detail. i scan my own brush strokes into the backgrounds. then i bathe my subject in color-saturated lights. (i love that part) the completed digital work is transmitted to one of the finest digital ateliers in america for archival rendering on canvas or paper. the proofing process involves weeks of refinement. the work takes far less time to complete than a typical gallery oil. but still, it is not an instantaneous process. i work without assistants and this forces me to limit my output. actually, i created 61 images last year, i guess that is quite prolific. did i say no assistants? that's not exactly true. the fact is that i don't let anything out of the studio until my wife *and i are both delighted with it. patty always suggests an essential finishing touch. my work and style book are presently on view at ariel gallery in locust valley. two of my pieces are in the collection of the nassau county museum of art. i'm a member of the american society of portrait artists. patrons include decorators, fashion, entertainment and business notables. some have received their portrait as a gift,* they feel quite honored. portraits instantly communicate status. clarity and drama.* *my rationale is simple, i want to convey how you feel when you are young and in love. back to the story. my wife * *patty, my partner and toughest critic. back to the story gift certificates: people are honored when they receive their portrait as a gift. portraits instantly communicate status. you will receive a certificate signed by me in a presentation envelope. an illustrated brochure explaining my work is also included. since i work from photographs, the portrait could be made as a surprise. contact me, and we'll discuss the details. my commission schedule for 2001 is filling up. at this time, i suggest you order 2 months in advance. mona lisa by the yard: "mona lisa by the yard" is an enormous hinged print. it unfolds to 39 feet long (13 yards) when fully opened. 26 continuous hinged pages- 234 panels. folded size- 10x18", in slipcase. each panel has a color plan "genetically" permutated from 16 colors and 4 backgrounds. it can be unfolded many different ways, each yielding a different visual experience. signed edition limited to 30, $2200. order a portrait: contact me to commission a portrait: all pieces are $3500. (plus production on large or unusual media) when we first communicate, we will discuss the following: 1.is this a gift? a beautifully presented gift certificate is available 2.size (just about any) 3.media (usually canvas) 4.color preference (from what you see on the website or your specs) 5.number of panels 6.condition of available photographs* 7.any changes you would like to make from the original. 8.model release 9.working schedule (approximate, based on waiting list) 10.payment schedule (half to start, half upon approval of proof) 11.revise policy (first one's free) 12.contact and shipping information an illustrated brochure* is available at no charge, just ask. *i work directly from photographs. i prefer to work with shots that you send. a sharp closeup lit from slightly above and off to the side usually is best. there's a lot that i can do on the computer to enhance things, but some photos don't have enough detail to show what you really look like. i prefer not to guess about that kind of thing. naturally, i'm available for a personal photo session. illustrated brochure* (email link) model release (you can print it from this frame.) i give permission to frank lekstutis, portrait artist, to use my portrait in publicity materials, portrait shows, galleries, websites, publications, advertising and any other means of self promotion as a portrait artist. date signature signature of parent if under 21 yrs. old
