BORN:
1941 New Brunswick, NJ

EDUCATION:
1967 MFA, Painting & Printmaking, University of Illinois
1965 BFA, Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
1963 Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007 Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
        Ettinger and Reynolds Gallery, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1995 Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
1993 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA1991 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
        Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1986 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA
        University Gallery, University of Southern California
1975 Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1974 Light Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Gallery 61, Newark, NJ

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 "Representing Representation", Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA and New York, NY
2005 “New Old Masters”, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
2004 “Drawings VII”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2002 "Unconventional Views: New Concepts in Contemporary Still Life Painting" Ettinger Gallery, Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna, CA
2000-2001 “Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; traveling to South Texas Art Center, Corpus Christi, TX and Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1999 "Drawing the Line," Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1998 "Drawings IV", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Illusion-Tromp L'oeil And Slight of Hand", The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
        "Allegorical Re/Visions", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
1997 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, CA
        Weingart Gallery, Occidental College
1995 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 "Visual Fictions, Sensory Deceits", Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
        "The Game Show", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1992 "The Allure of Illusion: Trompe L'oeil in Contemporary Painting", Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of         Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
1987 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Selections from Ovsey Gallery", The College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California,           Santa Barbara, California
1986 "Fourteen Southern California Artists", Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, LA, CA
        "Uncovering the Past-Tribute and Parody", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
        "Selected Works From Ovsey Gallery", Bank of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
        "Summer Group Exhibition", Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA
        "More Than Meets The Eye, The Art of Trompe L'oeil", Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
        "More Than Meets The Eye, The Art of Trompe L'oeil", Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
1985 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (December)
        Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (July)
        "Art and Travel", San Francisco International Airport, CA
1981-85?"Contemporary Trompe L'oeil Painting and Sculpture", National Travelling Exhibition to:
        Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, '84-'85
        Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA '84
        Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah '84
        Bellevue Art Center, Bellevue, Washington, '84
        The Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, '83
        Boise Art Center, Boise, Idaho, '83
        Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, '84
        Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, '83
1982 "Group Effort", Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 "Los Angeles Visual Arts Festival", Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1980 "New Talent", Allen Stone Gallery, New York, NY
        Group Show, Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, IL
        "Reality of Illusion", National Traveling Exhibition:
         Denver Art Museum, '79
         Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, '79
         Honolulu Academy of Art, '80 Oakland Museum, '80
         University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, '80
         Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, '80
1976 Palos Verdes Museum of Art, Two Person Show
1974 "The Uses of Realism", University of California, Riverside, CA
1973 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Four Man Show
1971 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Faculty Exhibition
        Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California
        Palos Verdes Museum of Art, Palos Verdes, CA, Three Man Show
1970 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Faculty Exhibition
1968 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Three Man Show
        "The Artist-Teacher U.S.A. Today", Inaugural Exhibition, State University of NY, Oswego, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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