David Bacharach's
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Sculpture - Metal
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Price Range: $450 - $5,500
Bio
For almost 30 years in his studio in the northern Maryland countryside, David Paul Bacharach has been creating unique hand woven metal compositions, drawing from diverse artistic and cultural sources. His unique art of metal weaving has found some of its most innovative expressions in a variety of indoor and outdoors installations. Humble copper and steel are transformed into breathtaking colors, textures and structures that in turn transform the space around them.
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.
Bacharach devotes a good part of his time to teaching a new generation of artists his unique metal weaving techniques. He is regularly invited to teach at schools with tradition in metal smithing.
Bacharach and his unique art have gained the attention of the national media and the art community. He has been featured in HGTV's "Modern Masters" as well as in such prominent publications as the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun. He has also been featured in publications of interest to collectors and artists.
Style
His objects express not solely an artistic presence, but also a craftsmanlike hands-on approach to materials. He uses easily recognized forms executed in series and approached from divergent stylistic directions to create distinct emotional as well as visual reactions.
David Paul Bacharach's unique art of metal weaving has found some of its most innovative expressions in a variety of sculptures, baskets and vessels. Humble copper and steel are transformed into breathtaking colors, textures and structures that in turn transform the space around them. They are among David Paul Bacharach's most popular creations and they come in a great variety of shapes, colors and dimensions.
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.
Artist Statement
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.
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.
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!
Exhibitions
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 Grannis Gallery, Burlington, VT
1999 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Baltimore, MD
1999 Grannis Gallery, Burlington, VT
1998 America House Gallery, Piermont, NY
1998 Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1995 Piedmont Craftsmen, Winston-Salem, NC
1994 Worth Gallery, Taos, NM
1993 Agostino Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Worth Gallery, Taos, NM
1991 Zimmerman Saturn Gallery, Nashville, TN
1990 Gallery 500, Elkins Park, PA
1988 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Jurus Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1986 Signature Gallery, Boston, MA
1985 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1985 Signature Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Human Arts, Dallas, TX
1983 Incorporated Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Handcrafters Gallery, Portland, ME
1981 Ten Arrow Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1979 Jurus Gallery, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED 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
Corporate Collections
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
Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, AL
Public Collections
The White House, Washington, DC
American Embassy, Singapore
U.S. Department of the Treasury, New Carollton, MD
Peter's Valley Craft Education Center, Layton, NJ
Copper Ridge, Inc. Center, Sykesville, MD
Museum Collections
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Arkansas Arts Center Museum, Little Rock, AR
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