ALEX GNIDZIEJKO

In the 1960's, Alex went on to study at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY, and School of Visual Arts in NYC. During these years, Abstract Expressionism was at its peak, so Alex learned how to adapt the renaissance techniques to illustration. Instead of using oils, which took too long to dry, he layered transparent dyes to achieve the same effect. Alex worked as a commercial artist in New York for twenty-five years, illustrating for magazines such as Time, McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, New York Magazine, Penthouse, Sports Illustrated, Seventeen, Playboy, Boy's Life, as well as record companies, corporations, and other advertising publications. He has received innumerable awards, including advertising's Andy Award and the Society of Illustrators' Gold Medal. In addition he has two Time Magazine covers in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian.