Don Weeke
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b. 1947, Addieville, Illinois
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Show & Tell: The Art of Time, Zimmer Children's Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The 10th Annual National Gourd Fine Art Show, Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA
The Nature of Art IV, Rancho Buena Vista Adobe Gallery, Vista, CA
2005 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The 9th Annual National Gourd Fine Art Show, Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA
2004 Celebrating Nature, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Fibers, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
The 8th Annual National Gourd Fine Art Show, The Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA
2003-04 Selected Works, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999-2004 The Exceptional Vessel, La Jolla Fiber Arts, La Jolla, CA
2003 7th Annual National Gourd Fine Art Show, Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA
Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997-2006 Contemporary Baskets, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000-02 Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
2001 In a Word, Featured Artist, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 10th Annual Craft Show Invitational, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ
1991 Gourd Vessels, Kirmeyer School of Fiber, San Jose, CA
Basketry Spectrum, Rome Art Center, Rome, NY
1990 Connecting Threads Through Basketry, Convergence ‘90, San Jose, CA
1989 The Fiber Vessel, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Clay, Fiber & Metal, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 From Ancient Roots: Contemporary Basketry, Oregon School of Arts & Crafts, Portland, OR
1986 Basketry Visions, Rome Art Center, Rome, NY
1985 Basketry Now, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
Within and Beyond the Basket, Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
The Basketry Link, Mendecino Art Center, Mendecino, CA
1984 Modern Baskets: At the Edge, Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
American Basket Forms, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
1982 41st Annual Art Exhibit, South Utah State College, Cedar City, UT
Currents '82, Middle State University, Murfreesboro, TN
1981 Basketworks, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Access to the Arts Fiber National, Jamestown, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006 500 Baskets, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, Asheville, NC
2005 Kevin Wallace, "The New Sculpture", Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Vol.36,No. 2
2004 Kevin Wallace, Celebrating Nature: Craft Tradition/Contemporary Expressions, Craft & Folk Art Museum
Jim Widess & Ginger Summit,The Complete Book of Gourd Carving, Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.
2003 Kevin Wallace, "Contemporary Baskets: The State of the Art", Fiberarts, Vol. 29, No. 4
2002 Jim Widess, Gourd Pyrography, Sterling Publishing
2000 Leier, Peters and Wallace, Baskets: Tradition & Beyond, Guild Publishing
Ginger Summit, Gourd Crafts, Lark Books
1996 Lance Thompson, "Julian's Landscape of Artists", County Folk Art Magazine
Jim Widess, The Complete Book of Gourd Craft, Lark Books
1994 Rhonda Johnson, "Three of a Kind Push Creative Limits", Fiberarts, Vol. 21, No. 2
1987 Judy Mulford, "Artist's Profile", The News Basket, Vol. 6
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The primary focus of my work is the creation of form. Texture is a secondary but necessary element. The making of the piece begins with a period of incubation where materials coalesce to form a fairly defined image. I then attempt to make real that image by combining the materials with a variety of traditional basketry techniques or an invented one, if necessary. I have never been able to exactly duplicate that intuitive image, but I'll keep trying - a lifelong process.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Show & Tell: The Art of Time, Zimmer Children's Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The 10th Annual National Gourd Fine Art Show, Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA
The Nature of Art IV, Rancho Buena Vista Adobe Gallery, Vista, CA
2005 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The 9th Annual National Gourd Fine Art Show, Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA
2004 Celebrating Nature, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Fibers, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
The 8th Annual National Gourd Fine Art Show, The Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA
2003-04 Selected Works, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999-2004 The Exceptional Vessel, La Jolla Fiber Arts, La Jolla, CA
2003 7th Annual National Gourd Fine Art Show, Art & Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA
Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997-2006 Contemporary Baskets, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000-02 Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
2001 In a Word, Featured Artist, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 10th Annual Craft Show Invitational, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ
1991 Gourd Vessels, Kirmeyer School of Fiber, San Jose, CA
Basketry Spectrum, Rome Art Center, Rome, NY
1990 Connecting Threads Through Basketry, Convergence ‘90, San Jose, CA
1989 The Fiber Vessel, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Clay, Fiber & Metal, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 From Ancient Roots: Contemporary Basketry, Oregon School of Arts & Crafts, Portland, OR
1986 Basketry Visions, Rome Art Center, Rome, NY
1985 Basketry Now, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
Within and Beyond the Basket, Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
The Basketry Link, Mendecino Art Center, Mendecino, CA
1984 Modern Baskets: At the Edge, Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
American Basket Forms, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
1982 41st Annual Art Exhibit, South Utah State College, Cedar City, UT
Currents '82, Middle State University, Murfreesboro, TN
1981 Basketworks, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Access to the Arts Fiber National, Jamestown, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006 500 Baskets, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, Asheville, NC
2005 Kevin Wallace, "The New Sculpture", Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Vol.36,No. 2
2004 Kevin Wallace, Celebrating Nature: Craft Tradition/Contemporary Expressions, Craft & Folk Art Museum
Jim Widess & Ginger Summit,The Complete Book of Gourd Carving, Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.
2003 Kevin Wallace, "Contemporary Baskets: The State of the Art", Fiberarts, Vol. 29, No. 4
2002 Jim Widess, Gourd Pyrography, Sterling Publishing
2000 Leier, Peters and Wallace, Baskets: Tradition & Beyond, Guild Publishing
Ginger Summit, Gourd Crafts, Lark Books
1996 Lance Thompson, "Julian's Landscape of Artists", County Folk Art Magazine
Jim Widess, The Complete Book of Gourd Craft, Lark Books
1994 Rhonda Johnson, "Three of a Kind Push Creative Limits", Fiberarts, Vol. 21, No. 2
1987 Judy Mulford, "Artist's Profile", The News Basket, Vol. 6
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The primary focus of my work is the creation of form. Texture is a secondary but necessary element. The making of the piece begins with a period of incubation where materials coalesce to form a fairly defined image. I then attempt to make real that image by combining the materials with a variety of traditional basketry techniques or an invented one, if necessary. I have never been able to exactly duplicate that intuitive image, but I'll keep trying - a lifelong process.