About The Artist

Queintard DeGeneste began his formal art training at Arts High School, Newark, NJ. After graduating from Newark South Side High School he attended Arizona State University where he majored in Commercial Art & Design and Pacific College where he received his degree in Business administration & Commercial Art. After returning to the east coast, he completed freelance illustrating projects for a variety of clothing stores and art studios. He continued his formal training by taking courses at the School of Visual Arts in lettering and calligraphy. After graduating from Law School in 1976, he began a career in business, and put aside his art career until his heart attack in 1995. His recovery period afforded him time to reflect on life and renew his passion for art. He works in a variety of different mediums from oils, acrylics, watercolors, pencil and inks. He has won a number of awards for his work and has curated and exhibited at Lincoln Center, the Morris County Atrium Gallery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Gallery, UMDNJ, Plainfield Arts festival and numerous other venues in the area. He has many pieces in numerous private collections, restaurants, nightclubs and business’s around the country. You can view parts of his work at www.artbyquinnproductions.org