Ian Summers is a painter, print maker, photographer, professor, raconteur, artist coach, author, and former Random House and the Creative Black Book publishing and advertising director.

He has taught and lectured at FIT, Parsons, The New School for Social Research, Syracuse University, UCLA, The Portfolio Center, PhotoExpo, and the American School in London.

Between all of that he continues to exhibit throughout the US and UK and his work was even included in a gallery exhibit along side renown artist, David Hockney.   

His undergrad mentors at the University of Bridgeport were disciples of Josef Albers and the Yale crowd which is apparent in Summers' treatment of color in his paintings. According to Summers, the artists who most inspired his work as a child were illustrators from classic comic books such as Frank Frazetta and Kelly Freas. Later influences, while living in the thick of it, the New York School,  Abstract Expressionists, Surrealists and artists such as Pollock, Rothko, Motherwell, DeKooning, Twombley, Kline and Warhol, clearly have left their "marks" on Summers' psyche especially in many of his series not only in what reveals itself on the canvas but the backstories as well.

His work includes series such as, “Out the Window”, "Angels", "Presidents", "Census", "Huddled Masses", "Yearbook", "Famous Artists", "9/11", and the newest series, “Rags to Riches”.  A notable conceptual  piece titled, "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men", is painted on pages from the book of the same title by David Foster Wallace completes his oeuvre. 

He has had two very successful major solo exhibits in 2013 and 2014 at Santa Bannon / Fine Art Gallery, as well as a solo exhibit 2015 at the Pomfret Club in Easton, PA.

At 77 years young, the artist and his work, are  relevant and vibrant;  it would be wise to collect this artist's work now-while it's affordable.