AMM NextGen Spotlight: Abe Shainberg

AMM: What inspires you to paint?

“When I get an image in my mind, I want to bring it quickly to life in a style I have developed over the years. It bridges the Old Masters, Impressionists, and new Abstractionists into a simplified watercolor that gets the essence of the scene. Watercolor allows me the spontaneity, immediacy, transparency, dramatic flourish and natural emotion necessary to combine the elements of nature and my imagination. It takes years to simplify, but it’s worth it.” Abe Shainberg

Abe Shainberg, a practicing attorney, has run several trade associations, worked both as a business and intellectual property attorney and has operated and managed several art galleries in NYC. He is a graduate of St. John’s University School of Law and has a Marketing Certificate from NYU.

Abe served as an Arbitrator/ Mediator for the Federal Government (Southern & Eastern Districts) and served on the Arbitration & Mediation Committee for many years at the NYC Bar Association and NYC County Lawyers Assn. Mr. Shainberg presided over hundreds of mediations, conciliations, and arbitrations in the diamond & jewelry industry.

He is an accomplished watercolor painter, with shows at various galleries. He was feted for his “Jerusalem” show (52 works), at the Saphira Ventura gallery in 2019. A sustaining member at the American Watercolor Association, he runs the online gallery Belmontgalleriesnyc.com. Abe also acts as the escrow agent for many fine art deals. Prior to law school Abe wrote comedy routines for many comedians and wrote scripts for films and TV.

Aside from the legal and artistic world, he speaks weekly to different groups on the Bible and Ethics