BORN: Oak Park, IL 1945

EDUCATION: Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006 “Ritual Offerings”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2005 "New Still Life Paintings"Plus One Gallery, London, England                                                   2003 "Sea Paintings," Koplin Del Rio Gallery, W. Hollywood, CA
2000 "Various Structures," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 "Paintings from the Pastures of Heaven", Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco CA
1998 "Landscape Paintings", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "L'eta dell'Oro", Il Polittico, Associazione d'Arte e Cultura , Rome, Italy (catalog)
        "The Classical Impulse", Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (catalog)
1997 "Still Life Paintings", Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1996 "Landscape and Language: Paintings By David Ligare", Monterey Museum of Art, CA (catalog)
        "Ponte Vecchio/Torre Nova", The Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture, London, England
1995 "Still-Lifes", Stiebel Modern, New York, NY
1994 Pastoral Landscapes", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 "The Choice of Hercules", Stiebel Modern, New York, NY
1992 Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
        "Stages For Contemplation", Fresno Museum, Fresno, CA
1990 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
        Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
1983 Hall Galleries, Dallas, TX
        Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1974 Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY
1970 Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2006 "The S- Word: The State of Spirituality in Contemporary Art, Judson Studios, LA, CA    
        "New Old Masters", National Museum of Gdansk, Poland                                                       2005 “New Old Masters”, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
2004 “Drawings VII”. Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
        “Selected Works- A Changing Exhibition”, Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
2003 “The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture”
                The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2002 "Drawings VI" Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        “Artists of the Ideal,” Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy
        "Unconventional Views: New Concepts in Contemporary Still Life Painting"
                Ettinger Gallery, Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna, CA
2000 “Drawings V, “ Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        “A Noble Tradition Revisited: The Contemporary American Still Life”,
                Spanierman Gallery, NY (Catalog)
        "Viewpoint: The Pastures of Heaven", National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA
2001 "Poetic Natures: Works from the Permanent Collection," San Jose Museum of Art,
                San Jose, CA
        “Collecting Our Thoughts,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1999 “Green Woods & Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition”,
                The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (Traveling, Catalog)
        "Drawing the Line," Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
        "Storytellers", Art Institute of Southerm California, Laguna Beach, CA
1999 "Drawing the Line," Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
        "Storytellers", Art Institute of Southerm California, Laguna Beach, CA?
1998 "Re-presenting Representation IV," Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
        "Gold Rush to Pop: 200 Years of CA Art," Orange Co. Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
        "Contempo-Italianate: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Italy", Laband Art Gallery,
          Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
        "A Feast for the Eye: Food in Art," M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, SF, CA
        "Drawings IV', Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Still Lifes", Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 "Dramatic Realism: The New Baroque", So. Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
        "The Derriere Guard", The Kitchen, New York, NY
1996 "Classicism In The Twentieth Century", Lizan-Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
        "Koplin Gallery Inaugural Exhibition", Los Angeles, CA
1995 "Landscape the Continuum", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 "Trees", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
        "Slice of Life: Contemporary Still Lifes", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
        "Parallax Views", Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 "Drawings III", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
        "Still Life Painting 1963-1993", Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (catalog)
1992 "Drawings II", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
        "American Realism & Figurative Art: 1955- 1990", traveling exhibition to five museums in Japan;
                The Miyagi Museum, Sendai; Sogo Museum, Yokohama; Tokoshimi Mod. Museum of Art,                 Tokushima; Museum of Modern Art, Shiba, Otsu; Kochi Prefectural Museum, Kochi
1991 "Drawings", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
        "Only Drawings", Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1990 "Architecturally Inspired", Long & Ryle Gallery, London, England
        "Regarding Art: Art Works About Art", Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1988 "Classical Figures", Simms Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
        "Life Stories", Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
        "Reveal: New Work by Gallery Artists", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 "Modern Myths", Boise Art Gallery, Boise, ID, traveling exhibition, catalog
        "The Artist and the Myth", Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
        "Parola/Italia", Apollodoro, Rome, Italy, catalogue
        "The Anatomy of Drawing", Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
        "Contemporary Humanism", Art Gallery, CSUF, Fullerton, CA, catalog
1986 "Drawing: A Classical Continuum", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA
        "Uncovering the Past: Tribute and Parody", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
        "Annual Purchase Exhibition", American Academy and Institute of Arts, and Letters, NY
1985 "The Classical Tradition in Recent Painting and Sculpture", Aldrich Museum of
                Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, catalog
        "Beyond Antiquity: Classical References in Contemporary Art", DeCordova &
                Dana Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA, catalog
1984 "Collector's Gallery XVIII", McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
        "Contemporary Classicism", CSULA, Los Angeles, CA, catalog
1983 "A Heritage Renewed: Representational Drawing Today", University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa                  Barbara, CA, catalog
        "West Coast Realism", Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA,
                traveling exhibition, catalog
        "Realistic Directions", Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University
1982 "Modern American Painting", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
        "National Pinokothiki", Athens, Greece, catalog 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi (The DepT.t of Drawings & Prints of The Uffizi)
        Florence, Italy
The ARCO Corporation
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Security Pacific Collection
The Wadsworth Athenaeum Collection, Hartford, CT
The Hughes Corporation
Pacific Telesis
Syracuse University Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence. KS
Knight-Ridder, San Jose, CA
The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Exxon-Mobil Corporation, Fairfax, VA

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1996 Lucie-Smith, Edward, Visual Arts in the Twentieth Century, Lawrence King Publisher, London
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1990 Stern, Fred, "Letter from America", Mizue, Tokyo, Summer, pg. 122
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1981 "Visions of California, The Art of the State", New West Magazine, Jan. 1981, pg. 56
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1980 Spurlock, William, "Photo Realist Painting in California: A Survey",
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1979 "America and Europe: A Century of Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection",         Australian Gallery Director (exhibition catalog)
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