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Howard Kiviat was born in New York, where his artistic talents afforded him the opportunity to win  prestigious scholarships and many awards, Howard earned the coveted job of teaching top military brass how to best use visual aids in the Korean war effort.

After the war, Howard was one of the pioneers on Madison Avenue who helped transform print advertising's dependence on illustration into a photographic one. Howard soon launched "print retouching" studios where talented artists enhanced and often changed entire photographs in such a "photo-realistic" manner, that many of New York's ad agencies' top creative directors sought him out for their most challenging print campaigns. 

By the mid 1980s, Howard's uncanny ability to merge artistic expression with evolving technological trends led him to help usher in print advertising's use of computer imaging via the Quantel Graphic Paintbox, a high-definition, digital video re-touching system. Using a "touch sensitive" pen,  his artistic team was now able to render intricate photographic augmentations that just a few years earlier seemed like a fantasy.

Howard then decided to try his hand at creating impactual graphic sequences for television programs, and in 1995 he devised the memorable opening graphic sequence for the FOX Network's unprecedented hit, Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?  Howard built on his newly found success in television by providing equally eye-opening sequences for other FOX Network shows.

Now semi-retired from the fast-paced world of print advertising and television production, Howard lives in Florida with his wife, Carole, where he finally has had the time to turn back to his first artistic love - painting and drawing.  Howard has recently been working on an exciting series of portraits and landscapes, wherein he embraces oils, watercolors and pastels to create the wonderful works seen here on his website, as well as in several private collections across the country.

Commissioned portraits are welcomed.

To contact Howard Kiviat impressionsintime@comcast.net