About the artist:

Born: Lima, Peru 1951 Chamot, who was born in Lima, Peru and grew up in New York City, ran Chamot Gallery a well-known gallery in downtown Jersey City’s legendary 111 First Street artist community for nearly a decade. In 2009 he opened a gallery in Jersey City's Bergen Hill neighborhood. Established American painter, designer, graphic artist, and gallerist Charles Chamot creates abstract and realistic works that reflect a passion for shape, color and social context, and a fascination with art's reflection of relationship, experience and memory. Scores of his paintings, prints and tapestries are held in private and corporate collections worldwide. The artist/designer/inventor/curator behind Chamot Gallery, has been a creative innovator for the past 25 years. Chamot has exhibited extensively in the U.S., Europe and South America, presenting abstract and realistic works that reflect a passion for shape, color and social context, and a fascination with art's reflection of relationship, experience and memory. Scores of his paintings, prints and tapestries are held in private and corporate collections worldwide SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2000 - Chamot Gallery, New Jersey 1995 - Paulina Rieloff Gallery, New York 1994 - Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York 1992 - Roxbury Art Center, New York 1989 - Giles & Co, New York - Jennifer Muller/The Works-Benefit, New York 1988 - Wilkov-Goldfeder Gallery, New York - Wilkov-Goldfeder Gallery, New York 1987 - Wilkov-Goldfeder Gallery, New York - Wilkov-Goldfeder Gallery, New York - Bridgewater Gallery, New York 1986 - Adam Whitney Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska 1985 - Bridgewater Grutzius Gallery, New York - Gallery of Applied Arts, New York - LaMAMA Gallery, New York - Center for Inter American Relations, New York - River Gallery, New York - Walden International Gallery, New York - B. Gilsoul and Partners, New York SELECTED COLLECTIONS - Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. - Amnesty International - E. F. Hutton - Arett Sales Corporation, N.J. - Atelier International, Ltd. - Commercial Investment Bank of Sydney, Australia - Duke University - Goldman Collection - Omaha Symphony Orchestra - Timco Industries, Cuero, Texas - Tobia Scarpa, Milan, Italy - Richard Weiner, Inc., N. Y. - Irving Trust Co., N.Y.C. - Progressive Insurance Corp., Cleveland, Ohio - Jane Wesman P.R., N.Y.C. - H.W.H. Public Relations, N.Y.C.