Bob Ziering

Panelist

Photo by Alan Lawson

Bob Ziering, an artist noted especially for his work in pastels, includes among his career highlights the exhibitions of his series Twilight of the Gorilla at the Central Park Zoo in 1994 (and, most recently, at the the Butler Institute Of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio in 2017), as well as Rembrandt: 40 Years of a Face, Rembrandt and The Jews of Jodenbreestraa, and Nok, Nok, interpreting 2000-year-old Nigerian terracotta sculptures in a series of drawings exhibited at the Tambaran Gallery and the Amyas Naegele Gallery in New York. More recently he has been exhibiting with the Pastel Society of America from whom has received a number of awards. As a commercial illustrator he has produced for a client list including the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the Paul Taylor Dance Group and Cirque du Soleil alongside several Fortune 500 companies. He is a lifelong avocational singer, having studied with the soprano Tina Paggi, and has built one of the world’s most impressive collections of early acoustical vocal recordings.