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Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen began his artistic career at the age of eight, painting sets, acting and singing. He had worked in over 100 musicals by the time he entered college. Jay was a student of art, theater, music and dance at Indiana University. He then concentrated on painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, one of the oldest institutions of art in America.
Jay then attended and graduated with honors from New York University Film School. While there, Jay wrote, produced and directed “The Village, The Village, The Village” and was honored with the Leo Jaffe Award presented by Columbia Pictures for Best Producer.
From Broadway, Jay moved to California to pursue his interest in film. He spent five years in Hollywood producing feature films before returning to his home state of Maryland to set up a permanent studio and gallery. Jay also was appointed Director of the Maryland Film Commission by Governor William Donald Schaefer in 1987, where he worked on more than 35 major Hollywood productions.
Throughout his life, Jay has always maintained a daily ritual of sketching and painting, trying new techniques and perfecting his own visual style. He prepares dozens of studies on site, and using the images as a foundation, prepares color studies, drawings, and more refined figures. Next, he paints and begins cutting the images into pieces and reassembles the many fragments onto another surface. He builds several layers while manipulating the placement until he has developed a sense of energy and motion, incorporating negative space and vibrant colors. In 1993 Jay was commissioned by the State of Maryland to create "Pimlico - 118th Preakness Stakes - Baltimore, Maryland," which now hangs prominently at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
At the request of the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, Jay's portrait of President Clinton playing the saxophone was chosen for the cover image of the CD Music of the Clinton White House for the new Clinton Presidential Center and Park.
Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen's work is in private collections worldwide. Jay is also represented by Gallery M in Denver Colorado, the Garden Gallery in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and has shown at the Ruby Blakeney Gallery, the Morris Mechanic Theater Gallery (at the request of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation), Life of Maryland Gallery, and in California. His most recent one man show was in Paris, France. Upcoming shows are planned for Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Baltimore, Maryland.
