About the Author

Damon Lehrer was born in Boston, MA, in 1967, and as a child spent a year in London, and later a year in Florence, Italy.  He travelled in Eastern Europe in 1990 just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, taking time off from an apprenticeship to sculptor Philip Grausman in Washington, Connecticut. In 1992 he published a limited edition, hand-printed letterpress and woodcut book, Aphorisms, at the Bow and Arrow Press at Harvard University.   Aphorisms can be found now in many prominent rare-book collections, and a print from the book was bought by the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge.  He attended Boston University to earn a Master’s Degree in Painting in 1994. During the 1990s he exhibited paintings at Pepper gallery in Boston, and went to live and paint in London, England for three years.  Upon his return to the U.S., he showed paintings in New York City and began teaching in Boston area art colleges. In 2009 he founded the Boston Figurative Art Center in Somerville, MA, as a home for the figure painting and drawing community in the Boston area. 

His first commercially published children’s book, Rocket Boy, was published by David Godine in 2017.