David Huang

b. 1971, Grand Rapids, Michigan

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Advance Packaging Corporation, Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Herman Miller "Greenhouse", Holland, MI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006       Vessels of Imagination, solo show, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park,
            Grand Rapids, MI
        Shaped in Metal, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
        GRCC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, Grand Rapids Community College Art Gallery,
             Grand Rapids, MI
        78th Regional Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
        Celebration of the Arts, First United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, MI
        Solo Show, Society of North American Goldsmith's annual conference, Vale Craft
            Gallery, Chicago, IL
        Festival 2006 Regional Arts Competition, Award, Grand Rapids Art Museum,
            Grand Rapids, MI
2005       Masterful Metalsmiths, Decorative Arts Center, Lancaster, OH
        Married Metals, Creative Metalsmiths, Chapel Hill, NC
        Two, (four person exhibition), LaFontsee Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI
        Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY
2004       The Arsenal Metals & Enamels Exhibition, Columbus Cultural Arts Center,
            Columbus, OH
        The Teapot Redefined IV, SOFA Chicago, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
        Metal Baskets, SOFA New York, Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2004-07   Hot tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003       Current Metalsmithing of David Huang, Creative Metalsmiths, Chapel Hill, NC
2003       Figures and Trees, Solo exhibition of drawings, Franciscan Life Process Center,
            Lowell, NC
        Jewelry and Objects 2003, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
        Refined III, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
2002-03   Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY and Chicago, IL
2001-03   Muskegon Museum of Art Regional, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2000-03   Festival Regional Arts Competition, Grand Rapids Art Museum,
            Grand Rapids, MI
2002       Amalgamate, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
        Let There Be Light, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL
2001       Gone Bowling, Award, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
        Fine Craft 2001, Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at The Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO
        Collegiate Exhibition: Students + Mentors, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts,
            Grand Rapids, MI
        BFA Exhibition, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
        SNAG (Society of North American Goldsmiths) Juried National Student Show,
            Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2000       Student Metal Exhibition, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
1997       2nd Annual All Michigan Student Artist Competition, Central Michigan
            University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
1996       Juried Student Art Show, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
        Solo Exhibition, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
1990       Clothesline Art Show, Award, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Treasure! This is something I've been thinking about recently. I hear people referring to my vessels as "treasures" and realize this is what I've been creating. But what is it that I treasure?

Clearly, metal is one thing I treasure. It is a fascinating substance. I love the way it moves under a hammer, the colors it is or will become, the way the lustrous shine dances with light. The copper, silver and gold I use most often occur in the natural state. There is a romance to the thought that I could be an explorer, coming upon a nugget of metal along the edge of a stream, working it into new forms.

Treasure, generally valued for it's material worth, has other causes for allure. Beauty is one I seek to create in my pieces. Not just beauty, but timeless beauty like that of a natural landscape. Beauty as connection between two or more things finding commonalities and understanding of the other.