Mark Gaston Pearce uses his love of oil painting and expertise in labor history to highlight the lives of workers. Pearce, an ABA member, graduated from law school in 1978 and joined the National Labor Relations Board in Buffalo, New York, serving first as a field attorney and then as a district trial specialist. “We have seen that art contributes substantially to identifying the feelings and the desires and the power of working people. I hope to continue to facilitate that.”