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David Schock was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1962. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts, and studied at the Exeter College of Art in England, and at the Art Students League in New York. He began his professional career taking commissions as a portrait painter, and continues to do so, specializing in informal portraits of children. During Plein air painting trips to Europe his subject matter expanded into landscape and figurative painting. Success in these genres as well soon followed in shows in London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts. He has since exhibited extensively throughout the United States, including regular exhibits in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, and at one-man galleries in Carmel, California, and Newport, Rhode Island. Over twenty-five thousand reproductions of the artist's landscape and figurative work are in collections worldwide, and his artwork has appeared in "House Beautiful", as set pieces in films and television, and as book covers. He is an award winner in painting at the Copley Society in Boston, and was recently honored as the featured artist for the "Boston Pops" arts fundraising concert and auction on Cape Cod. Since 2005, David has been the director of art galleries in Jamestown, RI, first the Randall Art Gallery, and since 2007 the SchockGallery at East Ferry. He recently won Best in Rhode Island for his portrait work with families. David Schock maintains studios in Lexington, MA, and also in Wakefield, RI, where he lives with his wife and son, who are often the subjects of his paintings. He is the Director of the Schock Gallery in Jamestown, RI. The latest original paintings and prints from the artist's studio can currently be seen at the Schock Gallery, in New England's finest galleries, and at www.davidschock.com and www.schockgallery.com.