Chi Birmingham is a Californian artist living in Brooklyn. He graduated in the spring of 2005 from the College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco. The landscape and history of his home state serve as the subject for his drawing and painting. He draws upon the coastline of Big Sur, and the myths and legends of California's history for inspiration and ideas.

Artist Statement:
I am very interested in the unique story telling power of painting. Scientific diagrams. Maps and navigational charts. The shallow relief sculpture of Egypt. The pre-renaissance tapestries of Europe. In each example there is a sacrifice of realism in favor of more direct visual communication. Visual reality is distorted so that the meaning of an image can be more directly conveyed. This is what I hope to accomplish when I sit down to paint.