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Gary Akers

Gary Akers (Born 1951) is active/lives in Kentucky, Maine.  Gary Akers is known for Figure, still life, landscapes.

Gary Akers , born 1951 in Pikesville, Kentucky.  After completing a Master's degree at Morehead State University in 1974, and spending the next year on a Greenshields Foundation Grant furthering his egg tempera work and studies, Akers became a full time artist in 1976.

Since then, his work has been exhibited widely in numerous museums and institutions including the Speed Art Museum, the Frye Museum of Art, the Ogunquit Art Museum, the Asheville Art Museum, the National Academy of Design, the Artists of America exhibition at the Colorado History Museum, and the Great American Artists exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum Center.

In addition to his egg tempera paintings, Akers is a highly accomplished watercolorist, and has received major awards from the American Watercolor Society (where he is an elected Signature Member), the Southern Watercolor Society, and the Kentucky Watercolor Society.

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