Jerry Grissom was born in Jackson, TN. He studied painting at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and earned a BFA in Environmental Design and Lighting from Parsons School of Design and New School University in 1979. Grissom was awarded a summer internship to study lighting at the Metropolitan Museum's installation of the American Wing under LeMar Terry. Mr Grissom was a health facility planner for the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation and continued to practice medical facilities planning for a number of years. He managed to continue painting in his free...more
