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Born in 1959, Ken Tighe is a contemporary realist painter and a life long resident of Massachusetts where he teaches, paints, and raises his family.  He graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 1982 with a BFA in painting where he first met painting instructor George Nick.  Nick has had a profound and lasting influence on his work. 

 In 1985 Tighe received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, where his thinking about contemporary realist painting would be greatly impacted by Neil Welliver, the Chair of the Graduate School of Fine Arts.  The influence of these masters of modern realist painting and thought provided the formative foundation for Tighe’s paintings today. 

 His experience at the Skowhegan School of Painting in 1986 was an important first step in finding consensus between these influences and his own painting sensibilities.