Oil on Gold
paintings by Gary Chapman
March 27 - May 27, 2007
Reception Sunday, April 22, 2 p.m.

Artist Statement

"With good intentions, my subjects are passionately searching. They are engaged in the proverbial, if not cliché, pursuit of meaning, knowledge, experience, or truth. They are on the quest of 'finding themselves,' looking externally and through the eyes and experiences of others. The children in these paintings, are still pure in this search, determined and armed with a clear vision; naïve. The adults however, begin their search for the elusive, already encumbered by all that they bring to the search; that which they know, have experienced and have come to believe. While equally pure in their intentions, they have lost their innocence."

Gary Chapman