ALAN WILLIAM TREISTER

TREISTER, ALAN WILLIAM, 54 years of age, passed away peacefully at his home in Oakland, California on May 8, 2012. Alan, born on August 23, 1957, was one of three sons of Kenneth and Helyne Treister, his loving parents who were longtime residents of Miami now living in Winter Haven, Florida. Alan enjoyed his early years growing up in Coconut Grove. Alan was an extraordinary warm, kind, and compassionate person who always cheered his family and friends with his wonderful sense of hummer. Alan's lifetime was committed to a passionate pursuit of the arts, as a professional artist, teacher and registered architect. He attended Coral Gables High School where he was a nominee for the Silver Knight Award and also attained the rank of Eagle Scout in troop 64. Alan received a Bachelor Degree in Art at the University of Pennsylvania where as part of his studies he attended the University of Edinburg in Scotland. Alan then received a Master Degree in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts when architect Louis Kahn was Dean. Alan lived and painted in Paris after which he returned to New York's Greenwich Village where he studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Alan furthered his art education in California where he received his Master of Fine Arts at the University of California, Berkeley. Alan received the Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant in visual art. Alan became a visiting artist at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska. Alan's art was exhibited most recently at the Modernism West Gallery in San Francisco. He has had exhibitions at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum; Brian Gross Fine Art Gallery; the George Lawson Gallery; and the Paule Anglim galleries, all in San Francisco. He has exhibited at The Armory Center for the Arts, at Pasadena and at Richmond, California. He exhibited at the Annual Arts Exhibition and the Carrara Café Art Gallery both in Emeryville California and also at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery Miami, to name a few. Alan taught fine art at various schools and Universities in California. Alan's paintings are in numerous private collections including the General Dynamics Corporation, Falls Church Virginia and the Ruby Hill Country Club, Alamo, California. His work and articles have been published in the San Francisco Examiner, Artweek Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Weekly and the Sacramento Bee, to name a few. Alan is survived by his loving brothers and sisters-in-law and best friends, Charles and Lisa Treister of Miami and Eliot and Michele Treister of New York; cherished nieces Emily and Rebecca Treister and nephew Avi Treister; by his extremely close family headed by Aunt Rhalda Prystowsky and Aunt and Uncle Nancy and Norman Lipoff, both of Miami and his Uncle and Aunt Leonard and Diane Treister of Los Angeles; his many caring cousins and his large endearing family and friends throughout South Florida and the country, with whom he spent many family gatherings. Alan's life will be celebrated at his funeral at the Gumenick Chapel, Temple Israel of Greater Miami, at 137 NE 19 Street, Miami on Friday at 2 pm; followed by interment at Graceland Memorial Park, 4580 SW 8th Street, Miami. The family will be sitting Shiva at the home of Charles and Lisa Treister. Contributions to Alan's memory can be sent to the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach c/o Greater Miami Jewish Federation, 1939-45 Meridian Ave., Miami Beach FL 33139. View this Guest Book at www. MiamiHerald.com/obituaries.