University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, Features Alumni Exhibition
January Issue 2006
Jean Gallagher received a Doctor of Arts in Installation Art from New York University, NY, in 1993. She also earned a MFA and a BFA in painting from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, in 1980 and 1975, respectively. Gallagher has had numerous national exhibitions in galleries, alternative spaces, and museums in the US and abroad. She has been an artist grant recipient numerous times; sponsoring institutions have included The National Endowment for the Arts, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Artist's Space, The South Carolina Arts Commission and California State University. Somers has been a professor of painting in the Art and Art History Department of California State University, Chico since 1991.