About the artist:

EDUCATION MFA (Painting/Sculpture), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA BA cum laude (Humanities), Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 At Space Gallery, “True Hallucinations”, Santa Ana, CA 2003 Square Blue Gallery, Newport Beach, CA 1997 Ron Breeden Gallery, Orange, CA 1991 Newport Beach Municipal Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA 1989 Terrain, San Francisco, CA 1988 Terrain, San Francisco, CA 1987 Natsoulas Novoloso Gallery, Davis, CA 1986 Civilian Warfare Gallery, "Jane Bauman - Mark Chimples", photo/painting collaborative, NYC, NY 1985 Civilian Warfare Gallery, NYC, NY 1984 Anne Freibe Gallery, Cologne, Germany Civilian Warfare Gallery, NYC, NY 1983 East Seventh St. Gallery, NYC, NY 1980 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA Quote from the Liberty Collection: "Frederick Bartholdi's magnificent tribute in New York's harbor has been powerful inspiration for artistic expression for the last 100 years. Discursive attempts to verbalize the interest in using such an American archetype fall so easily into sentimentality of two varieties; lofty corniness of base sarcasm. In such instances image takes advantage over words. I prefer to allow my painted image to express the complex private and collective feelings the statue invokes."