The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and project Awe present “The Model’s Artist: An Art Exhibition & Short Film featuring artist Zhenya Gershman and model Mark Snyder”. Over the past decade, internationally renowned figurative artist Zhenya Gershman and distinguished artist model Mark Snyder have been collaborating on a unique project — a living portrait changing over time. A selection of the paintings will be on exhibit in the center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries starting from May 15 through June 13.

The exhibit opens with a free reception and complementary screening of the Mainspring Pictures short film “The Model’s Artist,” directed by the Emmy-winning film Director Jake Gorst, in the center’s Renberg Theatre Friday, May 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. (screening at 8 p.m.).  Following the screening, the Los Angeles LGBT Center will recognize Mark Snyder with an Arts & Culture Lifetime Achievement Award.

Gershman is an internationally renowned artist and art historian. Her work is featured in such preeminent private and public collections as those of Donald Simon, Richard Weisman, Woody Allan and Michael Dukakis. Zhenya participates in important international exhibitions, including Art Aspen, Art Miami and Art Chicago.

Snyder’s contribution ranges from fine art portraiture, life drawing, sculpture, head studies, game art, character animation to anatomical analysis.  He is a regular model at Art Center College of Design, California Lutheran University, California Institute of the Arts and other institutions. Additionally, Mark is a model for life drawing classes at the Los Angeles LGBT Center and is proud to consider himself a part of the LGBT community.

Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries and Renberg Theatre is located in The Village at Ed Gould Plaza at 1125 N. McCadden Place. Admission and parking is free.