Friedel Dzubas Art
German, 1915-1994
Friedel Dzubas was born April 20, 1915 in Berlin and studied at the Prussian Academy of Fine Art and under Paul Klee while in Düsseldorf from 1936 to 1939. In 1939, Dzubas fled Germany for London and the United States where he later became a citizen.
In 1948, he he answered art critic Clement Greenberg's anonymous advertisement for a summer roommate. It was the height of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in New York, and through Greenberg Dzubas met Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman. Later, in the early 1950s, Dzubas shared a studio with Helen Frankenthaler, associating with some of the younger generation of abstract painters in New York including Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland.
In the early 1950s, he began exhibiting his work in New York. In the 1960s, he started experimenting with color field painting.
Dzubas' mature paintings since the 1960s assimilate his early interest in German Romanticism and Expressionism into post-war American abstraction. "He abandoned oil paint for Magna acrylic in 1965 when he found he could achieve with a brevity of gesture the brilliance and luminosity of oil paint applied in thin veils of color. He could thus effect the richness and variation of traditional glazed tones using a more expressive, immediate process. By the early 1980s, Dzubas abandoned his preliminary preparations of sketching and priming, thereby inviting spontaneity and accident into his painting process. Although he typically coated his canvas with a gesso primer before painting, he began to apply it so thinly that the pigment was almost immediately absorbed into the ground, making it impossible for him to revise and rework his compositions. Dzubas' change in technique reveals a thoroughly modernist sensibility: "I like that risk," he explained. "I think, to a certain degree, I have to make it mechanically difficult and unreliable for myself. If I can predict the effect too much, then I probably am not supposed to be doing it. I function better if my footing is not too sure, so to speak." The rich, velvety hues of Grade's reds, greens, and blues appear radiant in places. Dzubas heightened his color drama -- a drama characterized as quintessentially Baroque by some critics-- by varying the density of his paint. His rectangular forms appear to ebb and flow in an orchestrated movement across the surface of the picture plane." (Megan Bahr)
A retrospective of Dzubas' work was shown at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston in 1974 and at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston the following year. In 1983, Dzubas was honored with an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (ASKART)to
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Artist: Friedel Dzubas
Large Abstract Monotype by Friedel Dzubas
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large, pastel colored monotype print on cast paper pulp by American Abstract artist, Friedel Dzubas. It is signed and dated lower right.
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1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
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Monotype
Friedel Dzubas-Multi (Community Holiday Festival)-ORIGINAL
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"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Shades of Red and Blue, Lyrical Expressionist Work
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1985
Acrylic on paper
24 1/2 x 30 inches
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By Friedel Dzubas
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Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born American abstract painter. He was emphatically associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement.
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By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born, American abstract painter and a key artist associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement.
Dzubas studied art in Germany before fleeing the Nazi regime in 1939, settling in New York City. During the 1940s, Dzubas circulated with some of the leading abstract painters in the city's vital art scene. One of Dzubas' first major exhibitions took place at the 9th Street Art...
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1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
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Untitled (Islands)
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born American abstract painter. He was associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement.
Dzubas studied art in Germany ...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Art
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Night Star
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
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Screenprint
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By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Friedel Dzubas, a prominent figure in the New York School, made a significant mark within the Color Field painting movement during the mid-twentieth century, persisting in his artist...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
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Summer Blues (abstract expressionist monoprint)
By David Chamberlain
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful 1994 monotype painting by American artist, David Chamberlain (b.1950). Oil on Arches paper, image measures 16.5 x 21.5 inches; sheet measures 22 x 30 inches. The subtle variations of the oil application are quite lovely. Titled and signed by the artist in pencil, lower margin and on reverse. Excellent, clean condition with no damage or restoration. Unframed: sheet is loose with no backing.
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David Chamberlain (American, b Canton, Ohio 1949) has been a full-time artist since 1977, and has created more than 2000 original works in both two and three dimensions. Over 100 of his works appear in the collections of recognized arts institutions and museums, worldwide.
A serious and passionate musician (a cappella jazz singer with three recording albums and over 700 concerts in this avocation), Chamberlain's artistic approach and imagery is inspired by studies of musical patterns and relationships. Other influences include topology, poetry, design and flying.
His sculptures are noted for their playful explorations of lyrical, melodic edges and harmonious spaces. The surfaces are all one continuous form; the insides become the outsides and vice-versa; the edges are all one line. Mediums include mahogany, bronze, titanium, gold, and ceramic/porcelain.
His paintings reflect an enthusiasm for composition and improvisation. Chamberlain has developed a way to create original oil paintings using methods adapted from monotype processes incorporating a light table and mirrors, an etching press, and a variety of hands-on tools (including fingers, rollers, static electricity and blowing)... but no brushes.
This method, sometimes called the Chamberlain Method, makes possible the intense collaborations he is known for, where he and another artist work on the same painting at the same time. Called Duett Painting, this mutual and simultaneous way for two artists to paint together attempts to involve the backgrounds of each, directly and profoundly. There are no rules, and there is no place to hide whoever the artists are appears in the composition. As each artist's marks influence the other's, the painting takes on a momentum of its own, compelling the artists toward a new direction neither would have pursued on their own.
Chamberlain has worked with over 100 artists, musicians, dancers, poets and creative people from the USA, Asia, Europe, South America and Africa. About half of his paintings are collaborative duetts; half are conventional solo works using these techniques.
His studio is based near Boulder, Colorado. He is married, with two children, a dog and three cats.
EDUCATION
MLA University of Colorado 2002
Landscape Architecture
MFA University of Pennsylvania 1977
Sculpture & Printmaking
BA Princeton University 1971
Architecture & Design
SELECTED
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"Duets" Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE 1995
MacLaren/Markowitz Gallery, Boulder, CO 1991
Retrospective: McKissick Museum of Art, Columbia, SC 1990
Retrospective: The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 1988
Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA 1981, 1984, 1988
Gibson Gallery, SUNY at Potsdam, NY 1987
Arlene McDaniel Galleries, Simsbury, CT 1986
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT 1985, 1986
Gallerie Obussier, Nantucket, MA 1985
New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1983
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 1983
COMMISSIONS:
Operhall Suite; [Series of 6 original works] Muskegon Museum of Art 1994
Symphony Suite; Gibbes Museum & Charleston Symphony Orchestra 1994
Gospel Suite in F; New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA 1994
Eroica; Morgridge Auditorium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1992
Balletté; Southworth Library, Canton College, Canton, NY 1991
A Une Passante; M. C. Wallace Library, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 1991
Festivale; K. B. K. Foundation, Boston, MA 1990
A Une Passante; SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 1989
Balletté; Ensign-Bickford Corp., Simsbury, CT 1987
Torus; Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA 1986
Rondella; BNWC, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1985
Viole, Ayre; Asset Management, Inc., Essex, CT 1983
Cantata; Horne Library, Babson College, Wellesley, MA 1981
COLLECTIONS
Museums Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, England
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
British Museum, London, England
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Currier Gallery & Museum, Manchester, NH
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Greenville County Art Msueum, Greenville, SC
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
McKissick Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Art, Utica, NY
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Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
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Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA
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Taylor Museum/CSFAC, Colorado Springs, CO
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Institutions American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
[selected] Arjo Wiggins/Arches S.A., Annonay, France
Bank of America, Boston, MA
Boso Yusi Company, Tokyo, Japan
Boston Ballet, Boston, MA
Canadian Foreign Ministry, Ottawa, Canada
Chase Manhattan Bank, Vietnam
Embassy of Japan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
FIA Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Fidelity Ventures & Associates, Boston, MA
Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI
Gauteng Legislature, Gauteng, South Africa
German Embassy to Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam
Helix Technology Corporation, Longmont, CO
Ito-En Company, Tokyo, Japan
JAFCO America Ventures, Boston, Palo Alto, Tokyo
Japanese Consulates: Boston, MA; Atlanta, GA; San Francisco, CA
Japanese Foreign Ministry, Tokyo, Japan
Japan External Trade Organization, New York, Tokyo
Kepner-Tregoe Company, Princeton, NJ
Kobe Steel, Ltd Tokyo, Kobe
Mochida Medicines, Inc., Tokyo
Monsanto, European Division, Brussels, Belgium
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COLLABORATIONS
Johannesburg, South Africa (& Artist Proof Studio) 1997
Duetts with: Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Durant Sihlali, Mmakgabo Sebidi, Dumisane Mabaso, Nhlanhla Xaba, Pepe Abela, Vincent Baloyi, Ntepe Osiah Masekwameng, Gordon Gabashane, Sokhaya Nkosi
Vietnam (& Indochina Arts Project) 1995
Fine Arts Associations, Saigon, Hue and Hanoi; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Hanoi
Duetts with: Do Minh Tam, Hoc Hai, Huy Oanh, Le Anh Van, Le Thong, Le Van Suu, Manh Tuan, Mai Khanh, Nghia Duyen, Thuc Ban, Tran Khan Chuong, Tran Luong
Studio Duetts 1995-2001
With: Yuji Kishimoto (Architect -- Japan/USA), Emi Tajima (Japanese master caligrapher), Nguyen Quynh Nhu (Vietnam), Eduardo Chavez & Arturo Miranda (Mexico), Kyi May Kaung (Burmese Poet), Patrick Moraz (Swiss/American composer/performer), Jingalu (Aboriginal Australian artist), Rungsak Dokbua (Thailand), and Americans Don Grusin (Composer/performer), Dave Grusin (Composer/performer), Harry Skoler (Composer/performer), Sarah Schneider (Dancer/choreographer), Sally Ranney (artist/humanist), Cleo Parker Robinson (Dancer/choreographer)
China (PRC) 2001-2004
Proposal for an Artistic Collaboration with China, 2001-2004 (38 pages). Involving ten Chinese Artists, streaming on the internet, development of 160 museum-quality Duett paintings for world-wide exhibition; budget 1.6 million USD.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Visiting Artist [Associate Professor One-year appointment] 1990/1991
Art Department, University of South Carolina
Adjunct Professor 1991-1994
Art Department, Rivier College, Nashua, NH
Fellow/Panelist
The Aspen Institute Aspen, CO 2000
Conference on World Affairs [Univ of Colo, Boulder] 1990-1998
Visiting Artist
Haverford School, Bryn Mawr, PA 1999
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 1997, 1998
African Institute of Art, FUNDA Soweto, South Africa 1997
Princeton University 1996
Williams College 1995
Bradford College 1994, 1998
College of Charleston 1994
University of Pennsylvania 1993
University of South Carolina 1990, 1994
SUNY Albany 1992, 1993
Pine Manor College 1987, 1989
Bentley College 1988
Simon's Rock/Bard College 1988
Brandeis University 1986
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts 1985, 1986
Emerson College 1985
Harvard University 1984, 1985
Mount Holyoke College 1984
Syracuse University 1983
Colorado College 1977
Director; Artist in Residence 1974-1977
Arts College House, University of Pennsylvania
Taught Drawing (figure & still-life) and Photography
Initiated Interdisciplinary Program: Dance, Music, Poetry, Theatre, Film, Architecture, Art
SCHOOLS & PROGRAMS
Instructor, Photography & Visual Arts 1974-1976
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts
Chair, Performing Arts Department 1971-1974
Purnell School
Instructor, Visual Arts Department 1970-1974
Purnell School [Taught (& developed syllabi for) 21 Studio arts courses]
Juror, College Entrance Examination Board Area: Fine Arts 1972
AWARDS
Selection Who's Who: in American Art; in the East; in the World
Grants Krasner-Pollack Foundation Emergency Grant, 1999
Indochina Arts Project (Ford Foundation) 1994
Individual Artist Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission 1991
K. B. K. Foundation, 1991, 1994
High Meadow Foundation, 1990
Ford Venture Fund Grant [Univ. of Pennsylvania] 1975-1977
Haas Memorial Fund Fellowship, 1976
GRANTS IN KIND
Kodak, Rochester, NY
Papeteries Canson & Montgolfier, Annonay, France; Royal
Talens BV Oil Paints, Apeldoorn, Holland
Takach Etching Press Corp., Albuquerque, NM
South African Airlines; American Airlines
Korean Airline;
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PUBLICATIONS
Film segmant Video Jukebox DeCordova Museum of Art, Linclon, MA 1999
Film David Chamberlain: Artistry in Motion {30 minutes} SC-ETV/PBS 1992
Book Melodic Forms: The Sculpture of David Chamberlain {75 pages, color} 1990
David Godine, Publisher Boston, MA
Videotape Search for Perfection; {16 minutes} FIS/Pucker Safrai 1982
Award: Red Ribbon Category: The Arts American Film Festival, New York
INTERVIEWS
All Things Considered, National Public Radio
Weekend Edition, Monitor Radio & Public Radio International
CNN Headline News, Atlanta, GA
International News Scene, Reuters Press International, New York/Hong Kong
Terra Infirma, Corp. for Public Broadcasting
BBC World, London
Art Scene, S. Carolina Public Radio
Jazz Times, Blue Lakes Public Radio, Grand Rapids, MI
Conversations with Jean Feraca, Wisc. Public Radio, Madison, WI
WBZ-TV Boston, MA
WCNY-TV Syracuse, NY
WNPE-TV Watertown, NY
WSBK-TV Boston, MA
WERS-Radio Boston, MA
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Designs Arts College House (Program) ; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1975
Performing Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1973
Fine Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1971
Diplome Centre Audio Visuel Langues Modernes, Vichy, France 1973
School for International Training, Experiment in International Living, Putney, VT 1973
Graduate Credits Teaching Studio Art Institute, Colorado College, 1972
Consultant Sculpture Walk Project Univ. of South Carolina, Architectural Facilities Planning 1990/91
"How to create, fund and impliment a self-sufficient world-class sculpture collection"
Speaker "[Man] In The Arena" , Haverford School, Haverford, PA 2000
"Architecture & Painting" Clemson University Dept of Art & Architecture, AIA Lecture 1997 Reflections on Creativity" Am. Inst. of Architects Convention, Highlands, NC 1994
"Neurons, Notes & Sketches", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1993
"Music into Sculpture", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1992
"On the Creative Process", Empire State Plaza Art Collection Albany, NY 1993
"Creativity and Fullfillment", Conference on Health & Spirituality Boston, MA 1991
Vocalist & Cahoots (jazz a cappella quartet) 1974-present Album Recordings: "Released" (1993) ;
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Children" (1980); Canto Ergo Sum (sextet) 1971-72; The Footnotes (double sextet)
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David Chamberlain (American, b Canton, Ohio 1949) has been a full-time artist since 1977, and has created more than 2000 original works in both two and three dimensions. Over 100 of his works appear in the collections of recognized arts institutions and museums, worldwide.
A serious and passionate musician (a cappella jazz singer with three recording albums and over 700 concerts in this avocation), Chamberlain's artistic approach and imagery is inspired by studies of musical patterns and relationships. Other influences include topology, poetry, design and flying.
His sculptures are noted for their playful explorations of lyrical, melodic edges and harmonious spaces. The surfaces are all one continuous form; the insides become the outsides and vice-versa; the edges are all one line. Mediums include mahogany, bronze, titanium, gold, and ceramic/porcelain.
His paintings reflect an enthusiasm for composition and improvisation. Chamberlain has developed a way to create original oil paintings using methods adapted from monotype processes incorporating a light table and mirrors, an etching press, and a variety of hands-on tools (including fingers, rollers, static electricity and blowing)... but no brushes.
This method, sometimes called the Chamberlain Method, makes possible the intense collaborations he is known for, where he and another artist work on the same painting at the same time. Called Duett Painting, this mutual and simultaneous way for two artists to paint together attempts to involve the backgrounds of each, directly and profoundly. There are no rules, and there is no place to hide whoever the artists are appears in the composition. As each artist's marks influence the other's, the painting takes on a momentum of its own, compelling the artists toward a new direction neither would have pursued on their own.
Chamberlain has worked with over 100 artists, musicians, dancers, poets and creative people from the USA, Asia, Europe, South America and Africa. About half of his paintings are collaborative duetts; half are conventional solo works using these techniques.
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EDUCATION
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MFA University of Pennsylvania 1977
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Eroica; Morgridge Auditorium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1992
Balletté; Southworth Library, Canton College, Canton, NY 1991
A Une Passante; M. C. Wallace Library, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 1991
Festivale; K. B. K. Foundation, Boston, MA 1990
A Une Passante; SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 1989
Balletté; Ensign-Bickford Corp., Simsbury, CT 1987
Torus; Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA 1986
Rondella; BNWC, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1985
Viole, Ayre; Asset Management, Inc., Essex, CT 1983
Cantata; Horne Library, Babson College, Wellesley, MA 1981
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, England
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
British Museum, London, England
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Currier Gallery & Museum, Manchester, NH
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley, MA
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Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville,TN
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Gibson Gallery & Museum, SUNY Potsdam, NY
Greenville County Art Msueum, Greenville, SC
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
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Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
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National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
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Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
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Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Taylor Museum/CSFAC, Colorado Springs, CO
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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Bank of America, Boston, MA
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Boston Ballet, Boston, MA
Canadian Foreign Ministry, Ottawa, Canada
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Embassy of Japan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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German Embassy to Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam
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JAFCO America Ventures, Boston, Palo Alto, Tokyo
Japanese Consulates: Boston, MA; Atlanta, GA; San Francisco, CA
Japanese Foreign Ministry, Tokyo, Japan
Japan External Trade Organization, New York, Tokyo
Kepner-Tregoe Company, Princeton, NJ
Kobe Steel, Ltd Tokyo, Kobe
Mochida Medicines, Inc., Tokyo
Monsanto, European Division, Brussels, Belgium
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA
Nueva Set-Kei, Inc. Tokyo, Japan
Opinion Research Company, Princeton, NJ
PAR Associates, Inc., Boston, MA
Price, Waterhouse & Company, Greenwich, CT
Princeton Club of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Saint Joseph's Heart Hospital, Lexington, KY
Spencer, Fane & Browne; Shugert & Thomson, Kansas City, MO
Temple Society of Concord, Syracuse, NY
T. Rowe Price, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO
University of Wisconsin School of Business, Madison, WI
Vietnam Embassy to Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Stamford, CT
COLLABORATIONS
Johannesburg, South Africa (& Artist Proof Studio) 1997
Duetts with: Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Durant Sihlali, Mmakgabo Sebidi, Dumisane Mabaso, Nhlanhla Xaba, Pepe Abela, Vincent Baloyi, Ntepe Osiah Masekwameng, Gordon Gabashane, Sokhaya Nkosi
Vietnam (& Indochina Arts Project) 1995
Fine Arts Associations, Saigon, Hue and Hanoi; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Hanoi
Duetts with: Do Minh Tam, Hoc Hai, Huy Oanh, Le Anh Van, Le Thong, Le Van Suu, Manh Tuan, Mai Khanh, Nghia Duyen, Thuc Ban, Tran Khan Chuong, Tran Luong
Studio Duetts 1995-2001
With: Yuji Kishimoto (Architect -- Japan/USA), Emi Tajima (Japanese master caligrapher), Nguyen Quynh Nhu (Vietnam), Eduardo Chavez & Arturo Miranda (Mexico), Kyi May Kaung (Burmese Poet), Patrick Moraz (Swiss/American composer/performer), Jingalu (Aboriginal Australian artist), Rungsak Dokbua (Thailand), and Americans Don Grusin (Composer/performer), Dave Grusin (Composer/performer), Harry Skoler (Composer/performer), Sarah Schneider (Dancer/choreographer), Sally Ranney (artist/humanist), Cleo Parker Robinson (Dancer/choreographer)
China (PRC) 2001-2004
Proposal for an Artistic Collaboration with China, 2001-2004 (38 pages). Involving ten Chinese Artists, streaming on the internet, development of 160 museum-quality Duett paintings for world-wide exhibition; budget 1.6 million USD.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Visiting Artist [Associate Professor One-year appointment] 1990/1991
Art Department, University of South Carolina
Adjunct Professor 1991-1994
Art Department, Rivier College, Nashua, NH
Fellow/Panelist
The Aspen Institute Aspen, CO 2000
Conference on World Affairs [Univ of Colo, Boulder] 1990-1998
Visiting Artist
Haverford School, Bryn Mawr, PA 1999
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 1997, 1998
African Institute of Art, FUNDA Soweto, South Africa 1997
Princeton University 1996
Williams College 1995
Bradford College 1994, 1998
College of Charleston 1994
University of Pennsylvania 1993
University of South Carolina 1990, 1994
SUNY Albany 1992, 1993
Pine Manor College 1987, 1989
Bentley College 1988
Simon's Rock/Bard College 1988
Brandeis University 1986
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts 1985, 1986
Emerson College 1985
Harvard University 1984, 1985
Mount Holyoke College 1984
Syracuse University 1983
Colorado College 1977
Director; Artist in Residence 1974-1977
Arts College House, University of Pennsylvania
Taught Drawing (figure & still-life) and Photography
Initiated Interdisciplinary Program: Dance, Music, Poetry, Theatre, Film, Architecture, Art
SCHOOLS & PROGRAMS
Instructor, Photography & Visual Arts 1974-1976
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts
Chair, Performing Arts Department 1971-1974
Purnell School
Instructor, Visual Arts Department 1970-1974
Purnell School [Taught (& developed syllabi for) 21 Studio arts courses]
Juror, College Entrance Examination Board Area: Fine Arts 1972
AWARDS
Selection Who's Who: in American Art; in the East; in the World
Grants Krasner-Pollack Foundation Emergency Grant, 1999
Indochina Arts Project (Ford Foundation) 1994
Individual Artist Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission 1991
K. B. K. Foundation, 1991, 1994
High Meadow Foundation, 1990
Ford Venture Fund Grant [Univ. of Pennsylvania] 1975-1977
Haas Memorial Fund Fellowship, 1976
GRANTS IN KIND
Kodak, Rochester, NY
Papeteries Canson & Montgolfier, Annonay, France; Royal
Talens BV Oil Paints, Apeldoorn, Holland
Takach Etching Press Corp., Albuquerque, NM
South African Airlines; American Airlines
Korean Airline;
Trans World Airlines
PUBLICATIONS
Film segmant Video Jukebox DeCordova Museum of Art, Linclon, MA 1999
Film David Chamberlain: Artistry in Motion {30 minutes} SC-ETV/PBS 1992
Book Melodic Forms: The Sculpture of David Chamberlain {75 pages, color} 1990
David Godine, Publisher Boston, MA
Videotape Search for Perfection; {16 minutes} FIS/Pucker Safrai 1982
Award: Red Ribbon Category: The Arts American Film Festival, New York
INTERVIEWS
All Things Considered, National Public Radio
Weekend Edition, Monitor Radio & Public Radio International
CNN Headline News, Atlanta, GA
International News Scene, Reuters Press International, New York/Hong Kong
Terra Infirma, Corp. for Public Broadcasting
BBC World, London
Art Scene, S. Carolina Public Radio
Jazz Times, Blue Lakes Public Radio, Grand Rapids, MI
Conversations with Jean Feraca, Wisc. Public Radio, Madison, WI
WBZ-TV Boston, MA
WCNY-TV Syracuse, NY
WNPE-TV Watertown, NY
WSBK-TV Boston, MA
WERS-Radio Boston, MA
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Designs Arts College House (Program) ; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1975
Performing Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1973
Fine Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1971
Diplome Centre Audio Visuel Langues Modernes, Vichy, France 1973
School for International Training, Experiment in International Living, Putney, VT 1973
Graduate Credits Teaching Studio Art Institute, Colorado College, 1972
Consultant Sculpture Walk Project Univ. of South Carolina, Architectural Facilities Planning 1990/91
"How to create, fund and impliment a self-sufficient world-class sculpture collection"
Speaker "[Man] In The Arena" , Haverford School, Haverford, PA 2000
"Architecture & Painting" Clemson University Dept of Art & Architecture, AIA Lecture 1997 Reflections on Creativity" Am. Inst. of Architects Convention, Highlands, NC 1994
"Neurons, Notes & Sketches", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1993
"Music into Sculpture", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1992
"On the Creative Process", Empire State Plaza Art Collection Albany, NY 1993
"Creativity and Fullfillment", Conference on Health & Spirituality Boston, MA 1991
Vocalist & Cahoots (jazz a cappella quartet) 1974-present Album Recordings: "Released" (1993) ;
Arranger "Haven't We Met" (1991); All Good Children (octet) 1972-74 Album: "All Good
Children" (1980); Canto Ergo Sum (sextet) 1971-72; The Footnotes (double sextet)
1967-1971 Album: "Another Summer...
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