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American crafts are about the people who make them, not just the
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over 30 years, David Paul Bacharach has been creating in his northern Maryland countryside
studio unique hand woven metal compositions, drawing from diverse artistic and cultural
sources. Below you can find out about the Collections
that include his sculptures, his numerous Exhibitions
in the US and worldwide and Publications. You can also
find information about his Arts Shows and Teaching Schedule, and Galleries featuring his art.
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I want a person to be taken first with the pleasing color and form of the piece. But as they get closer to it, I love to hear them say, oh yeah, look at that! |
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Collections David Paul Bacharach's art graces an impressive array of public and corporate buildings, museums and numerous private collections. 
The White House, Washington, DC American Embassy, Singapore U.S. Department of the Treasury, New Carollton, MD Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA Monsanto Corporation, Washington, DC GTE Telephone Operations, Irving, TX Women's and Children's Hospital, Boston, MA Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA American Craft Museum, New York, NY Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA Arkansas Arts Center Museum, Little Rock, AR Peter's Valley Craft Education Center, Layton, NJ Copper Ridge, Inc. Center, Sykesville, MD Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, AL
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I have always spent a great deal of time studying contemporary American crafts, wondering how to incorporate their colors, textures and forms into my metalwork. I have attempted to mesh the forms and images of ancient sources - American Indian baskets and clay, Japanese bamboo baskets and bronzes, pre-Colombian metal - with those from contemporary American crafts. |
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Exhibitions In the last 25 years, David Paul Bacharach's art has been shown in numerous exhibitions from Paris to Philadelphia, Indiana to Ireland and Santa Fe to San Francisco. He has been widely praised for his virtuoso metalwork. Solo Exhibitions Group Exhibitions 2004 "Woven Metal" at the Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ 2003-04 "The Art of Craft", touring exhibition of the Susquehanna Art Museum 2003 "Two Capitals", exhibition of Maryland Jewelers and Metalsmiths, touring museums in Russia 2002 "9-11: Artists Respond", American Craft Museum, New York , NY 2001 "Once Upon A Time: Artists Examine Fairy Tales, Legends And Myths" Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI 2001 "American Craft Odyssey: James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC 1999 "The End is Near-Artists Look at the 20th Century", Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI 1999 "Southeastern Basket Invitational", Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC 1998 "Faculty Show", Sandra J. Blain Gallery, Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN 1998 "Dress Up!", Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI 1997 "2nd Annual Best in America", Stones Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 "L’Chaim, A Kiddush Cup Invitational", Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 1996 "Functional Metal", Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1995 "Light Interpretations", Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 1995 "The Commemorative Cup", National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN 1995 "Let’s Play House", Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI 1994 "Born with a Silver Spoon", Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC 1994 Crafts Council of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland 1993 "The Tea Party", American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1991 "Figurative Abstraction", Reading Art Museum, Reading, CA 1991 "Silver: New Forms and Expressions", Fortunoff, New York, NY 1991 National Ornamental Museum, Memphis, TN 1989 "The American Vessel", Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA 1989 "Ateliers d’Art", Paris, France 1989 "American Crafts /Messe Frankfort 1989", Frankfort, Germany 1988 "Focus: American Baskets", Katie Gingrass Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1988 "Objects in Metal", Elizabeth Fortner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 1988 Zoller Gallery of the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 1988 "Contemporary Artifacts", National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA 1987 "Interlacing", American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1983 "@Crafts USA", Kjarvaisstadir Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland 1983 "Modern Metalsmithing", University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
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I was attracted to the metal weaving process primarily because of its spontaneity, a trait that is essential to my method of working. When I begin a new piece, I don't have a definite idea of what that particular object is going to do. As I progress, I determine how each new section will be integrated structurally and visually into the whole. |
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the media about David Paul Bacharach
"Baskets - A Book for Makers and Collectors" by
Billie Ruth Sudduth, Hand Books Press, 1999 "Textile Techniques in Metal" by Arline Fisch,
Altamont Press, 1996 "Depths of Character" by Katherine Pearson,
Southern Accents (cover article), 1988 "Interlacing" by Jack Lanor Larsen, Kodansha,
1986 "Weaving in Metal" by Deborah Norton, Metalsmith
(cover article), 1985 "American Crafts - A Source Book for the
Home" by Katherine Pearson, 1983
Artist in
Residence - Art Park, Lewiston, NY Visiting
Instructor - Peter's Valley Craft School, Layton, NJ lnstructor - Metals Department, Maryland
lnstitute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Visiting Artist - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
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The result of my technique is that I always wind up with something different from the one before. I push and pull, and sometimes a piece really sings. When that happens, I rarely feel like I’m the person responsible, even if I am the one who made it. What makes it good? It’s in the piece itself. |
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