Born in Brooklyn, New York, Gerald Schwartz started painting in oils at 16 and fell in love with the medium. After completing high school plus 5 years at the renowned Art Center Collage of Design, when still on 3rd St in Los Angeles, Gerald worked as an Assistant Art Director for a fashion magazine, designed books, was a freelance illustrator, photographer, and ad-man all the while never losing focus on his painting. Then the day came when he made the decision to devote himself full time to the world of fine art and he never looked back.

Gerald explored extensively styles from Traditional to Abstract to Photorealism, all the time distilling down what has become his personal style, Contemporary-Realism.

Gerald has works of art in museums both here in the U.S. and Mexico. He has been involved in the redevelopment of the arts in downtown Santa Ana, California. He taught painting at the Leaning Tree Center in Orange County and at UCLA’s Children’s Learning Disability Center. For the last 11 years Gerald has been a part of the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, California. Recently Gerald had the Festival of Arts purchase “AFTERNOON SHADOWS” to be a part of their permanent collection of California artworks that dates back to 1900. Along with that, the State of New Mexico purchased “OUR TOWN” to be placed in the University of New Mexico in their Architectural & Engineering Department. Gerald is currently both exhibiting in museums and has work permanently displayed.