Howard Kanovitz (1929-2009) shocked the art world when he abandoned his successful career as an Abstract Expressionist, in favor of a new form of representational art which problematized the use of photography within mid-century painting practice. His solo exhibition at the Jewish Museum in 1966 was the first museum exhibition of “The New Realism”.

In the 1990’s Kanovitz began to use the computer to compose, using both media imagery and his own photography. Multi-Media work often includes digital, pastel, charcoal, acrylic paint, often rephotographed and reworked in numerous ways, until the final vision was realized.