Jerry Ott is an American artist born in 1947 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He is an acclaimed airbrush artist and painter of the Photorealist School of painting that emerged in the 1960s. He attended Mankato State College until 1971 and shortly after he received his master’s degree from University of Minnesota.

Ott began to paint from photographs while still in college in the middle to late 1960's. While citing Pop Artists such as James Rosenquist, Larry Rivers, and Richard Linder as strong influences, it wasn't until being introduced to the work of German artist, Paul Wunderlich that he began to work on a body of figurative work painted directly from photographs.

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