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Bernard Solco (New York) is an Italian American multimedia artist who is best known for his large-scale paintings of product barcodes.
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Early career
American artist Bernard Solco was born and raised in the New York City area. From a young age he showed an intense interest in the arts and explored a variety of mediums from painting and photography to mask making and sculpture. By the age of fourteen he had developed a unique style that had won him several art awards in shows and competitions in the tri-state area. At the age of eleven he sold his first work on canvas. By the time he was sixteen, Solco worked part-time while in school as a paid apprentice for a New York City graphic designer. After high-school the young artist felt more inclined to remain working in the graphic arts field rather than going on to an art school or university.
For the next several years the self-taught artist worked as a free lance graphic designer while also creating original paintings which he sold in the private sector. Solco began working with a fellow designer from New York City who later introduced him to an art dealer in NYC. The gallery owner took and immediate interest in Solco's works on canvas and offered him a show in his Soho gallery.
In 1996 Bernard Solco launched a full-time career in the fine arts and put together an impressive body of work that proved to be well accepted. Since then Solco's artwork has been recognized and exhibited worldwide. His artwork has been the subject of many articles in international publications including the London Daily Mail, the New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine.
Many prominent collectors in the arts and industry have acquired his paintings and sculpture. Solco has also been commissioned to paint portraits and create original works of art for some of the worlds most recognized personalities including Donald Trump, Brooke Shields, Siegfried & Roy and Rudy Giuliani.
Bernard Solco was the first artist to focus on product barcodes/bar codes as an art subject. Bernard Solco is also the first artist to focus on 2D Symbologies/Barcodes/Bar Code technology as an art form. Bernard Solco was the first person in the public domain to discover and be introduced to 2D Symbologies/Barcode/Bar Code technology in 1998 and was introduced to this technology by a private bar code company working with the Department Of Defense as a government contractor in 1998.. Bernard Solco is the first artist and the first person in the public domain to generate a 2D Symbologies/Barcode/Bar Code and was generating messages in 2D Barcodes/Bar Codes and painting the generated 2D Bar Codes on large canvas since 1998.
Current
Bernard Solco is currently creating new works on canvas and paper. He is also completing his first novel based on a true story with plans for a full-length feature film. Solco's newest series of paintings actually communicate to the viewer with an app that can be downloaded to any smart phone. They are the world's first talking paintings.