Paul D. Gibson

Paul Gibson was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1957, and has worked as a San Francisco-based artist since 1989. Gibson’s art education and inspiration began by watching his mother—an immigrant from Paraguay, of whom Gibson has said that “her artistic purity lives inside of me”—decorate wedding cakes. He received a full scholarship from the Art Academy of Design (National Academy of Design) in New York, NY (1987), a BFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (1984), and studied architecture at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA (1980). He continued in academia by teaching drawing for over 18 years at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco.  Gibson works mainly in pastels and acrylic, and states that, “I am a painter of spatial ambiguity, picture plane, perceptual perspective and representation of space, creating pictures from the art of history.” His artworks have been exhibited widely, including at the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; and in numerous private collections. Gibson is a collector of art as well, with over 150 works by Lucian Freud, Käthe Kollwitz, John Sloan, and many others.