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Title: Artist Lex Lumiere Returns to Carnegie Hall: A Triumph of Art, and Overcoming The Odds

 United States, 23rd Feb 2024, King NewsWire - Texas born artist Lexie ‘Lex’ Lumiere, the granddaughter of former United Nations Award recipient Frank Cricchio and his wife Beatrice ‘Bea’ Cricchio, an award winning Professional Photographer Association (PPA) portrait painter sponsored by Kodak and Fuji. Built their careers during a time when the Klu Klux Klan would throw bricks through their minority owned photography company, Cricchio Studios as they built their American Dream. When their studio was relocated in 2006, it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and the world renowned artists retired. Lex was already an award winning artist herself and protege of Italian painter Remo Trentini, part of Mark Cuban’s collection. They encouraged Lex to relocate to NYC. She moved and worked as a Senior Recruiter for PPR, the largest luxury retailer in the world, parent company of Gucci, and as a Regional Recruiting Manager for Juicy Couture building out the flagship stores from NYC to Miami because of her expertise in luxury apparel. Shooting photography projects as her side hustle in the big apple, Lex became one of two female photographers for NYFW while also exhibiting art at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, for the Annual Visual Aids Benefit, and beautifying the city by helping paint a children's mural with Habitat for Humanity; ‘Brush with Kindness’ project at the P.S. 329 Surfside School.During this time Lex broke off an engagement with Williams, her fiance who got caught up in the party scene; started using drugs and became physically abusive. Lex would find herself at the Brooklyn: Domestic Violence Center, creating...

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