Jack Farkas’s lifelong devotion to art began in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the young artist was nurtured by the guiding hands of his godparents. Early excursions to museums—sixty years distant now—fused curiosity with passion, books and paint intertwining to shape a worldview in which art was not merely an interest, but an elemental force. “Looking at paintings and art, formed me and my life around and about art.” Farkas’s journey led him through some of the nation’s most rigorous art institutions. He earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, followed by an MFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and further graduate studies at Bradley University. At NYU, he delved deeply into art history, restoration, identification, and even art law, contributing to panels on the recovery of Holocaust-looted art with major museum authorities—a testament to both scholarly rigor and a passion for cultural preservation. As he seeks new gallery representation, it is clear that Jack Farkas’s journey as an artist is ever-evolving, still attuned to the unseen symphonies of color and spirit. Farkas’s art has always been, and continues to be, a vibrant map for those seeking meaning in the interplay of feeling, pigment, and the living world—an invitation to experience, through color, the very energies that move us all.
