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"While standing on
location in a place I have never visited, I begin to recognize
what is different about it from all the other places I have been.
I try to capture that, the uniqueness," says Cosby.
As a painter Cosby travels extensively
painting what he sees and feels. Bold use of color and an energetic
brush stroke combined with the truth of the place is what you
will see and feel when viewing a painting by Cosby.
Born in Hollywood California
in 1955, Cosby was raised in the west. At an early age he began
to draw and paint and was lucky enough to have been inspired
by a grandmother who was an oil painter. "She would give
me the paint, some brushes and a scrap of canvas and set me off
to paint. This early experience took the fear out of creating
a painting," said Cosby.
Cosby started traveling at an
early age. At 18 he was chosen as an advance man for the Executive
Branch of the US Government, served under two Presidents and
traveled the world. He met many interesting people and saw many
things but what most interested him were the great works of art
he encountered. "They haunted me and helped set the course
for my career as a painter". After leaving the White House,
Cosby rebuilt an old classic sailing sloop designed by Nathaniel
Herrishoff. With a friend (who had dreams of being a writer)
set sail up and down the eastern seaboard in the inland waterway
for 3 years. Thus he began his art career.
"Doing drawings of anything
that moved me, things began to sell and my course was set,"
said Cosby.
Upon his return to the California,
Cosby began painting the sea and landscape of coastal California.
With a strong gallery response, his success as a painter quickly
followed.
Cosby currently resides and maintains
a studio in San Clemente CA. He works on location around the
world and is represented by some of the finest galleries. Cosby
was a founding board member of the prestigious "Laguna Plein
Air Painters Association", a Signature member of both Pleinair
Painters of America and The California Art Club. He has served
as an officer of these groups to help further the cause of Art.
Cosby was also a founder of the Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting
Invitational that was held at the Laguna Art Museum for thirteen
years and is now in it's 19th year.
With his bold contemporary style Cosby has captured the imagination
of some very important collectors. His work can be found in many
private, public and corporate collections around the world. Cosby
is recognized internationally.
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List
of Awards and Recent Exhibitions
2016 Presenter at the "Lost Coast Show in Florida"
2016 Showing in the Catalina Island Wildside show
2016 Featured in the PBS Show "Color in your Life"
2016 The Irvine Museum Summer Exhibition "A Summer Idyll"
2015 Commissioned by Big Canyon Country Club to paint a major
painting
2015 Acquired into The Irvine Museum Permanent Collection
2015 Group Show "The Wild Side" Catalina Island Conservancy
show
2014 The Fredrick Weisman Museum "On Location in Malibu"
A CAC Show
2014 The Cape Cod Museum of Art "Looking East" a PAPA
Show
2014 The Irvine Museum "Sunlight and Shadow/ The Tradition
of Pleinair Painting
2013 One man show at Redfern Gallery "Beached and Coves
of Laguna Beach
2011 First Place, Plein Air in the Park, Paso Robles CA. Awarded
by Jean Stern, The Irvine Museum
2009 Colectors Choice Award; Laguna Art Museum CA
2007 First Place, Heritage Art Show, San Juan Capistrano, CA
2007 Irvine Museum Award, Coastal Splendor Plein Air Invitational,
Crystal Cove, CA
2007 Second Place, Casa Romantica, San Clemente, CA
2005 Honorable Mention; Coastal Splendor Plein Air Invitational,
Crystal Cove, CA
2004 Honorable Mention; Sights of Southern California; Bowers
Museum, Santa Ana, CA
2004 Honorable Mention; Coastal Splendor Plein Air Invitational,
Crystal Cove, CA
2004 Artist Choice Award; Quick Draw, Laguna Beach Plein Air
Painting Invitational, CA
2003 Honorable Mention, Sights of Southern California; Bowers
Museum, Santa Ana, CA
2002 Collectors Choice Award, Laguna Plein Air Painting Invitational,
Laguna Beach, CA
2001 First Place, Quick Draw, Haggin Museum, Yosemite Painters
Group, Stockton, CA
2001 Best of Show Award, Lahaina, Maui, HI
2001 First Place, Quick Draw Competition, "Third Annual
Desert Plein Air"; La Quinta, CA |
