Wesley Jerome Gipson

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Seattle, WA *8122

206-***-**** adyc0r@r.postjobfree.com

Zefram LLC July 17, 2023

Seattle, WA.

SPECIAL PROJECTS & PROGRAMS PROJECT MANAGER - ART LOGISTICS Dear Sirs or Madams:

I have extensive experience in fine art, as a gallery owner, professional picture framer, and inventor of preserving art on paper, not to mention trade shows and exhibitions that I’ve planned and hosted for various artists and occasions.

My art career started when I settled in Vancouver, BC, where I opened Aries Wildlife Gallery, specializing primarily in wildlife themed art, both original paintings, sculptures, as well as limited edition serigraph & lithograph prints. Custom framing the art works was completed in a workshop behind the gallery, where mats, glass, Plexiglas glazing, and assembly took place. Some of my promotions include quarterly news letters, news paper ads, promoting at trade show booths such as Home Show & Sportsman’s Show booths, and etc.

I attended a week long expedition to Anthony Island with Canada’s most renowned naturalist artist, teacher, & activist Robert Bateman & wonderful wife Birget, who rules, because she insists on him drinking water, taking his vitamins, walk daily, not to wear red, and hide the gap in his teeth by not grinning, and that formula’s working, he’s 93yro and still going strong. My friend, artist Gary Pulham was also on the expedition, to study under the master, and now he has paintings on Canadian stamps. Some clients complained that their framed paper art works had began to warp, despite my use of the finest acid free boards and foam core backings, which I’d researched extensively for all solutions from others in the industry (pre-internet), only to find none, I decided to develop my own solution. I closed the gallery when my 7 year lease expired, and spent 3 years developing & patenting a “Sealed Enclosure For Display Objects” USPTO #4,646,914 issued in 1987, which I dubbed “Noah’s Art” because resisted atmospheric moisture which cause normally flat paper art to warp and ripple inside the frame.

The backing included a box containing silica gel, activated charcoal, & etc, to absorb contaminates and Nitrogen gas that replaced the Oxygen prior to being completely sealed. For testing, I put the sealed unit in deep rabbet metal frame, and threw it into the ocean. A client asked for a quote to re-frame his Dali print collection, where upon he offered to buy into the business would be a better option, so we put the project in motion. For the proof of concept stage of bringing the product to market, he put up the startup capital to renovate a building for production as the milestone before the next capital injection, but it all came to an abrupt end when he suddenly died of a brain aneurysm, and I lost all of my tools & equipment went bankrupt. This caused me to reinvent myself, by studying & certifying as an IT computer technician, which was natural since in my teens, I’d been trained in telephony at GTE Everett, practiced the skills in both Vietnam & Thailand, plus I had a Superbrain CPM computer before Bill Gates made MS-DOS. During my bankruptcy depression, Richard & Heather Wiebe invited me to join in “Terriffic-Picturiffic” &

“Nature’s Window Gallery” businesses, which specialized in both low end framed art cards distributed to dozens of outlets in BC, to high end framed art, promoting limited edition prints mostly from Millpond Press & Greenwich Workshop, which I’d carried in my stores. Wanting to expand, we leased & renovated a space at Eaton Center Mall. Richard wanted to get Bob Bateman to cut the ribbon for the opening, and what if we could get some of his original paintings, especially the “Midnight Black Wolf”

($150K value), and what if we rent Vancouver’s Orpheum Theater, to show the paintings and allow Bob to give a lecture to an audience of hundreds of people? We made it happen, Millpond agreed to send “Midnight Black Wolf” & two other paintings, provided for insurance, they wouldn’t travel on the same day or transport carrier, and their representative would be in attendance, and we’d exquisitely framed dozens of wolf prints, chartered a float plane to pick Bob up from his waterfront home on Salt Spring Island, and take him home after the events. Bob and I chatted, off stage in the greenroom, about why we can’t wear the color red, while we waited for the audience to view the original paintings and take their seats at the Orpheum, and I was elected to give Millpond’s opening speech, which praised the millions of dollars Bob’s raised for charities. It was a huge surprise to see him sporting a pair of red & green suspenders to the store opening ribbon cutting event at Eaton Centre the next day, but I don’t know if he actually wore them home. I’ve been contracted by the Bank of BC to liquidate the art assets of a failed art business, as well as use bank spaces for art installations & sales. I also worked with Andrew Wyeth’s Chadds Ford Gallery for the purchase of collagraph prints (Open House, Night Sleeper, etc), for an investment group. Since returning home to Seattle, my focus has been focused on why we age and get sick, from an inventors perspective, by looking for what others have failed to see or research, which turned out to the be the application pH science in their diagnoses and treatments for both humans & our planet. I’m living proof that by managing the pH of our foods & drinking water, we won’t prematurely age, get sick, become diseased, or become hospitalized, my only noticeable change, is my hair has grayed, yet my physical & mental attributes are the same as they were in the attached photos of 40yrs ago. I believe that I’m best qualified for your position and look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your consideration,

Jerome Gipson