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  Don Geyra

Don Geyra  
Artistic FX Inc.  
PO Box 248  
New Rochelle,  NY  10802  
artisticfxinc@netscape.net  
914-632-3342  
Fax: 914-632-4976  










Affiliations
Professional Affiliations



  • United Scenic Artists Local 829, NYC

  • President, Artistic F/X, Inc.

  • Member, New Rochelle Mayor's Municipal Arts Council

  • Artistic Director Stingray Corporation, NY, NY

  • Backstreet Gallery, New Rochelle NY

  • Expo Design Center Regional Faux Finisher

  • Altman Theatrical Lighting Faux Finisher





Experience
Professional Experience

Fine Art 1971 to present, Scenic Art 1984 to present

Usually as Charge Scenic or Camera Scenic specializing in faux finishes, backdrops, portraits, and all areas of classic scenic art.

Featured Decorative Arts contractor, New Rochelle Home Depot Expo Center. President of Artistic F/X Inc. Decorative arts contractor

  • Artistic F/X Inc President Residential Decorative Painting 2000 to present





Creative
Broadway Shows & Opera



  • Amadeus

  • Edwin Drood

  • American Buffalo

  • Grand Hotel

  • M. Butterfly

  • Meet Me in St. Louis

  • Annie II

  • Will Rogers Follies

  • My Favorite Year

  • Twelve Baboons

  • Phantom

  • Miss Saigon

  • Passion

  • Cats

  • Bus Stop

  • Paramount Christmas Carol

  • Diary 0f Anne Frank

  • DOUBT NATIONAL TOUR

  • Finding Nemo

  • Young Frankenstein

  • South Pacific

  • Shrek 3

  • Billy Elliot

  • Anything Goes

  • On a Clear Day

  • Sister Act

  • Newsies

  • People in a Picture

  • Man and Boy

  • Warhorse





Broadway Shows & Opera
Scenic Supplier



  • Atlas

  • Hudson

  • Scenic Art Studios

  • Set Control

  • Showtech

  • Variety

  • Nolands

  • Metropolitan Opera 1998





Creative
Feature Films



  • The Money Pit, F/X, Midnight Run (Camera Scenic)

  • Biloxi Blues (Lead Painter and Camera Scenic)

  • Cocktail, Age of Innocence, Wide Sargasso Sea (Charge)

  • The Super, The Pickle, The Hard Way, My New Gun, Another You (Camera Scenic)

  • Michael Collins (Lead Painter and Camera)

  • Woody Allen Fall and Spring projects 1996, 98, 99

  • Private Parts, Copland (Shared Camera)

  • In and Out, Meet Joe Black, Chinese Coffee (Charge)

  • Last Days of Disco, Force Majeure, Mickey Blue Eyes, Big Daddy (Camera Scenic)

  • Shaft Returns

  • Stuart Little 2

  • The Devil Wears Prada

  • The Nanny Diaries

  • 16 Blocks

  • College Roadtrip

  • I Am Legend

  • Sex and The City

  • Sherlock Holmes

  • Sex and the City 2

  • Sorceror's Apprentice

  • The Other Guys

  • Copouts





Creative
Television Programs



  • Banicek (Camera Scenic)

  • Feds (Camera)

  • Saturday Night Live, Cosby Show, Fox Five Kid’s Club (Charge)

  • Firehouse, Michael Hayes, Soul Man, The Sopranos, Oz, Sesame Street, Cosby, Deadline, (Lead Painter)

  • Guiding Light

  • Criminal Intent

  • Bedford Diaries

  • UGLY BETTY

  • White Collar

  • Person of Interest

  • Smash





As charge/scenic artist
Television Commercials

As charge and scenic artist, hundreds to date, including:

  • Jell-O

  • Pepsi

  • Coca Cola

  • MCI

  • Milton Bradley

  • Burger King

  • McDonald's

  • Wendy’s

  • Tide

  • AT&T

  • Dexatrim

  • Clinique

  • Minute Maid

  • Lowes

  • NY State Lottery





For production companies
Television Commercials

For the following production companies:



  • Andreozzi

  • Bianchi

  • Emerald

  • Epoch

  • Eve Gastner

  • Giraldi

  • Gomes Loew

  • Guliner

  • R Greenberg and Associates

  • Levinson

  • Levine Piccollo

  • Mark Ross

  • Rosseti

  • Sandbank

  • Story Piccollo

  • Ulick Mayo





Independent Work
Don Geyra Design studio

Backdrops designed and produced by Don Geyra Studio for ASCAP

  • Rock bands

  • Private homes

  • Stingray Corporation

  • National Landmarks





Independent Work
Volunteer work

Pro bono design and painting for New Rochelle Public Library events.Chairman of the New Rochelle Municipal Arts Commission, Pro bono scenic painting for Fleetwood Stage, New Rochelle, NY





(Pre 1984)
Non-Union Scenic Work



  • Amelia Goes to the Ball (Manhattan School of Music)

  • The Me Nobody Knows, I Feel a Song Coming On, The Three Penny Opera (ESIPA)

  • You Never Can Tell (Center Stage)

  • Raggedy Ann and Andy (ESIPA)

  • Our Town (Center Stage)

  • Westport Country Playhouse, Scenic Artist in Residence 1983

  • Atlas Scenic Studios, Shopman and general scenic assistant, 1982-83. Night Mother, Glass Menagerie

  • Lavav Studios, Tel Aviv: 1981-82 The Fury

  • CBGB Niteclub: Night Manager and DJ. 1978-81

  • Artistic Assistant to Arturo Vega for Ramones Backdrops and Tee shirt printing





Fine Art Exhibitions
One-Man Shows



  • REPRESENTED BY BACKSTREET GALLERY, NEW ROCHELLE, NY 2001 TO PRESENT

  • Lumen Winter Gallery Retrospective, New Rochelle, NY 2001

  • Dag Hammersjold Tower, NYC 1997

  • Rockefeller Foundation, NYC 1997

  • Wainwright House, Rye, NY 1996

  • The Rye Arts Center, 1996

  • New Rochelle Library Gallery, 1982AJB Gallery, NYC 1981

  • Studio Show, 6 East Second St, NYC 1979

  • Lopoukhine-Nayduch Gallery, Boston, MA 1979

  • Petrenko Gallery, NYC 1978

  • Indiana University Museum, Bloomington, IN 1977





Fine Art Exhibitions
Group Shows



  • Bard College, 1981

  • Good Company Gallery, NYC 1981

  • Jacques Seligman Gallery, NYC 1977

  • Dana Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1977





Education
Indiana University



  • MFA with Honors in Painting

  • Barnes Fellowship, 1977





Education
Colgate University



  • BA with Honors in History and Studio Fine Arts, Biology, And Pre-Med, 1975

  • Illustrator for University Biology Dept













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