Artist's Statement
David Bowman was born in La Porte, Indiana and was raised in southern
Florida. He attended Williams College in Massachussetts and received a B.S.
Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan. He studied jewelry making
in a night school class in Ann Arbor. He is a mostly self-taught metalworker,
who learned from books, occasional classes, and lots of pratical work.
David worked in metal for twenty-eight years, starting
with silver jewelry and working his way up in size through belt buckles, candlesticks,
and vases to abstract wallpieces in patinaed brass. His sense of form and composition
comes from close and long study of natural forms, architecture from all periods,
and the compositions of the masters of painting.
His work with wallpieces particularly reflects his interest
in achieving balance in asymmetrical forms. David enjoys the constraints of
working with his simple tools and limited palette of patinas. He has sold his
work at craft fairs (including exhibiting more than twenty times in the prestigious,
juried, American Craft Council shows in Rhinebeck, New York; West Springfield,
Massachussetts; San Francisco, California; and Baltimore, Maryland), gift shops
and galleries throughout the United States and occasionally abroad in Paris,
Zurich and Tokyo.
Exhibitions include Berkeley City Hall - 1999 , Group Shows at Coos Art
Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon '83, '84, Fine Crafts Exhibitions, Marin County Fair
'79,'81,'82, and the Richmond Arts Center, California - Crafts 1979.
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