David Carlin
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b. 1944, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS2002-08 Turned Wood - Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Collectors of Wood Art Forum, Scottsdale, AZ
2006 Collectors of Wood Art Forum, Philadelphia, PA
2005-07 Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY
Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
2002-03 Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
2001 Contemporary Netsuke: The Kinsey Collection, Chica City Museum of Art, Japan
International Netsuke Society Convention, Boston, MA
1999 The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
International Netsuke Society Convention, Chicago, IL
Mishima Taisha Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
1998 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1997 Salt and Tobacco Museum, Japan
Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin
Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
International Netsuke Society Convention, Hawaii
1995 International Netsuke Society Convention, New York, NY
1994 Netsuke Exhibit, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Netsuke Exhibit, British National Museum
1993 International Netsuke Society Convention, Chicago, IL
1991 International Netsuke Society Convention, San Francisco, CA
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
It was a dark and stormy night in the fleeting hours of a young man's blind stumble through the post-art school career decisions. Then by chance, confronted with the hitherto unseen small sculpture of the Japanese, a bonding flame was lit. So it came to pass in 1967.
The works are part of a lineage defined by periods of changing style and subject. All the pieces adhere to a detailed, small, hard material story telling format. Each is an original design and most are unique in subject.
Today it continues unbroken, self-supporting, respectably collected, museum exhibited and globally exposed. It is an art form about stories. It tells them, it creates them, it is spawned by them and it carries them into the future.