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My name is Christopher Donham (that’s me pictured to the right). I am the owner and sole artist for Engon Art Works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist Statement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My paintings are based on three competing ideas: capturing a scene, growing as an artist, and telling a story. Each scene represents a new challenge in capturing the essence of a setting: drawing the viewer to the people, places, or areas that are key to the message that I want to convey. Each painting is a learning experience for me as an artist: exploring new painting techniques, materials, and tools. Each artwork offers the viewer elements of a story. Viewers may think of themselves as part of the scene, or imagining what might have happened before or what is to come. What is the story that you see?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Biography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I began my career as an engineer. In 1995, I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. My thesis involved the design of an analog neural network using full-custom VLSI. I used the neural network to model aspects of the auditory cortex for speech recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Penn, I spent the next 12 years working for graphics companies in Silicon Valley. Along the way, I built midrange graphics cards for SGI, worked at an amazing startup company called Gigapixel, and spent 5 years designing products for nVidia. Some of the patents I’ve been a part of include: 6,646,648<\/a>, 6,980,209<\/a>, 7,245,302<\/a>, 7,355,603<\/a>, 7,417,637<\/a>, 7,565,490<\/a>, 7,589,741<\/a>, 7,697,009<\/a>, 7,692,654<\/a>, 7,705,846<\/a>, 7,808,512<\/a>, 7,876,332<\/a>, 7,911,470<\/a>, 7,996,622<\/a>, 8,004,522<\/a>, 8,040,357<\/a>, 8,098,257<\/a>, 8,325,203<\/a>, 8,547,395<\/a>, and 8,860,722<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2007, I left nVidia to pursue a career in teaching. My teaching credential work was done at San Francisco State University, with my student teaching taking place at Lowell High School. In the Spring of 2009, I received my teaching certification in Advanced Mathematics. After teaching in high school for several years, I moved on to community college where I teach or have taught geometry, statistics, calculus, college algebra, and trigonometry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I quit engineering, I also decided to pursue a lingering passion: art. I took classes at the Academy of Art in San Francisco where I got the chance to study with Henry Yan. I later moved to Baltimore where I’ve been studying various forms of drawing and painting including landscapes, figures, and still life with both charcoal and oils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Company Name<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name “Engon” comes from the names computer scientists use to describe shapes. 4 sides is a square. 5 sides is a pentagon. 9 sides is a nonagon. Eventually, we run out of prefixes and call a figure with many sides (or an unknown number of sides) an “n-gon” which I’ve spelled out as E-N-G-O-N. I believe that art inspires many experiences and interpretations; the name of my art business reflects the multi-faceted nature of art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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