Jerome Lagarrigue is an award-winning artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Paris, he moved to the United States in 1992, and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. Lagarrigue’s masterful and evocative paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world. His work is in the permanent collection of major institutions including the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In 2017, Lagarrigue’s solo exhibition, The Tipping Point, which included paintings depicting fictional riot zones was critically acclaimed in his solo exhibition at Lazarides Gallery in 2017. Equally sought after in the worlds fine art and popular culture, in 2010 Lagarrigue was one of a hundred artists to have been personally selected by Georges Lucas to participate on an exclusive project commemorating the original Star Wars trilogy. Georges Lucas also subsequently purchased the original art for his personal collection.