John Torreano 'Columns' at Birmingham's Hill Gallery
John Torreano 'Columns' at Birmingham's Hill Gallery But his grades weren't great, and neither of those dreams was going to pan out. Then he took a drawing course from artist Richard DeVore, and the scales fell from his eyes. "I had one of those epiphanies," Torreano said from his home in Sag Harbor, New York. "You mean you can do this? Be an artist?" That set him on a path to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the early 1960s, then the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and onto a successful abstract art career in Manhattan. Some of Torreano's most recent works are on display in "John Torr...
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