William Gambini is an abstract and figurative painter who was a member of the infamous New York School of Painting in the 1950’s. An important part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, he was a valued peer and colleague of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko, and Pablo Picasso.  Gambini states, “Painting for me is a visual experience; a learning process of life and living. I do not have a technique; instead, I use a method which I have developed over the years. The arrangement of configurations, with pigment and color placed on the flat 2-dimensional canvas surface, creates light in time and space without shadows, modeling or perspective.” In 1975, Gambini received the Mark Rothko Foundation Grant and moved to San Diego where he continues to paint and sculpt. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant.  Gambini’s work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art (NY).

New York born David Hollowell’s paintings explore construction and space whether figurative or abstract.  He confines his images into boxes while at the same time exhibiting complete artistic freedom with the subject matter within.  Playing with illusion and perspective, Hollowell creates exquisitely detailed ‘rooms’ that make the viewer feel as though they can step inside.  He states, “The concern of developing an image that plays with a picture plane in a traditional manner has always excited me. I seem to never tire of the magic that occurs when I get to a stage in my work when I actually feel as though I can enter into the space I’ve created.”  Hollowell is currently a Professor of Art at the University of California- Davis. He has won many awards, such as the Western States Arts Federation drawing award, and has shown his work within group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Portrait Gallery among others.