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DAVID ZIMMERMAN vessels utilitarian sculpture resume
ARTIST STATEMENT "As a boy, I would spend days in my dad’s workshop making things. I learned the basics of woodworking in a commercial cabinet shop. Then I tried college; I tried truck driving; I went back to woodworking. While working with an architect I was intrigued by the notion of designing and engineering my own work. After years of learning and perfecting the craft, and the rules of traditional woodworking in hand, I’ve given myself the freedom to break them. Opening myself to be creative and pushing to the edge, I’ve found joy in my work – each vessel a play in light and shadow. Warton Eshrick’s work was inspirational to me and I was fascinated by Wendel Castles layered and laminated work. In 1980 I discovered a way to make wooden bowls with layered and laminated expanding concentric rings of wood, and I became obsessed with the process – still finding new ways to create with it. My design is not a mental process. It is not a planning process. My best work comes by surprise – it happens while I am making it. My wish is to communicate deeply in the non-verbal language which is beyond words." D.Zimmerman 2006
RESUME EDUCATION Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, MN SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2005 David Zimmerman, Lancaster Arts Hotel, curated in collaboration with Lynden Gallery and Lancaster Galleries 2003 “Face Off – Glitter and Wood, David Zimmerman and Matthew Lawrence, Lancaster Galleries West, Elizabethtown, PA 2001 “Nature Observed,” Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 2000 “Post Modern Constructions,” Lancaster Galleries West, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania “Zone III,” Ganser Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania 1999 “Things Seen and Unseen Too,” Bradley Academy, York, Pennsylvania, 1999 1995 “Wooden Bowls and Vessels,” Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1987 Summer Invitational Group Show, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “American Contemporary Works in Wood,” Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH Juried Visual Arts Exhibit, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also 1986 “Indoor Juried Museum Exhibition,” Greater Harrisburg Annual Arts Festival, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, also 1986 American Craft Council Craft Fair, West Springfield, Massachusetts, also 1986 American Craft Council Craft Fair, Baltimore, Maryland, also 1986 Attended Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, Maine, also 1985, 1986 1986 Counterpoint in Crafts,” an exhibition of the work of recipients of Crafts Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, also 1982 thru 1985 Luckenbach Mill Gallery of Historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1985 “Recent Work,” Solo Show, Marion Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1984 Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen Gallery Show, Markethouse Craft Center, Lancaster, PA “Fine Arts, Artful Objects,” Meredith Contemporary Art, Baltimore, Maryland 1983 “Bob Bitts, Paintings, David Zimmerman, Wooden Bowls,” Marion Art, Lancaster, PA 1982 Mount Hope Arts and Crafts Show, Mount Hope, Pennsylvania GRANTS AND AWARDS 2002 Honorable Mention, “Open Award Show,” Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA 1988 Second Place in Sculpture, “Indoor Juried Museum Exhibition,” 21st Annual Greater Harrisburg Arts Festival, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA 1987 Most Innovative Use of the Medium, “American Contemporary Works in Wood,” Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio 1986 Full Fellowship Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Festival Award, “Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Juror: Michael W. Monroe, Curator, Renwick Gallery First Place in Crafts, “Indoor Juried Museum Exhibition,” 19th Annual Greater Harrisburg Arts Festival, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1984 Innovative Use of Wood, “Gallery Show,” Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, Markethouse Craft Center, Lancaster, PA, Juror: Robert L. Pfannebecker 1982 Honorable Mention, “Mount Hope Arts and Crafts Show,” Mount Hope, Pennsylvania PUBLICATIONS Bride’s Magazine, February-March, 1988 Armstrong’s Idea House 1986 and Press Kit Metropolitan Home, May, 1986 House and Garden, May 1986 Good Housekeeping, June 1986 Better Homes and Gardens, May 1986 Home, June, 1986 House Beautiful, June 1986 Home Ideas, September 1986 The New York Times, January 1986 The Village Voice, January 1986 The Bethlehem Globe-Times, August 1986 Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, 1982, 1984 The Baltimore Son, 1984