Our Artists
Deana C. Jamroz
Interview
Over a lifetime, the East-Coast artist has divided her professional talents between writing and graphics design for all types of advertising and P.R. agencies - the good, the bad and the greedy.
Ms. Jamroz describes the best of her current computer-generated artwork, i.e., website graphics, book covers, promotional materials, etc., as erotic, exotic, and great fun.
At present, Deana enjoys the freedom that less restrictive audiences afford her rather mad-cap, zany muse.
Lorraine Brevig
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Interview
Lorraine Brevig always wanted to be an artist since she was very young. Lucky to be able to attend art school and received an undergraduate and graduate degree in painting, she soon found out that art wasn't very helpful in getting a real job. Lorraine worked as a technician for a private painting conservator for five years and then decided to become one, too. After receiving her MA in art conservation, she didn't paint for eight years and finally got back into it only after discovering fan fiction on the net. She rediscovered fan art at that time, too. Lorraine painted her first fan art painting in 25 years of Frodo based on the movie actor Elijah Wood in 2001. She's been doing fan art since then, having branched out to book covers starting with the cover art she did for MLR Press author Laura Baumbach.
Michael Breyette
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Michael Breyette is a self taught artist who has been drawing for as long as he can remember. But, it wasn't until moving from a conservative family and hometown in rural upstate NY that he felt the freedom to express his true self and his true passions in his artwork.
The resulting illustrations of male nudes and gay themed works rendered in soft pastel are what turned his hobby into a career. In 2000 he found a global audience by posting a few of these pieces on the Internet. Three years later he made the decision to quit his secure day job and be a full time self supporting artist.
One of the major rewards of that decision came in 2007 when renowned gay pictorial publishing house Bruno Gmünder of Germany published Summer Moved On, a collection of Michael's works, followed by calendars in 2008 and 2009. His works also appear in the anthology Stripped and The Greatest Erotic Art of Today Volumes 1 & 2 (for which he won the Viewer's Choice Award in 2008), as well as numerous magazines including Blue, Manner Aktuel, Unzipped, Gaydar, and [2], for which he earned the distinction of having the magazine's first ever illustrated cover. His work has also appeared on several book covers
Michael's works can be viewed and purchased at his online gallery, www.breyette.com, where in addition to his originals; he offers prints, postcards, and magnets and copies of his books and calendars. He is also represented by leading male figurative gallery, Lyman-Eyer, of Provincetown MA.