BIRTHPLACE:   Marietta OH BIRTH YEAR:   1950 LIVES IN:   San Francisco CA

WORKS IN:   San Francisco Bay Area ADDRESS:   179-19th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121 SCHOOLS:   Stanford University, 1971, BA Art History San Francisco State University, 1988, MFA Studio

It is the art writer's job to try to understand the artist; to explain the work as readably and informatively as possible, and to make a case with the general public for the creative enterprise, which nowadays seems to be badly understood or completely misunderstood by most people, owing to poor national art education and the increasingly obscure and rarefied (not to say precious) nature of much contemporary art .