DAVID REISINE | OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

DAVID REISINE

I went to the University of California at Santa Cruz as an undergraduate majoring in art. There, I focused on bronze and metal sculptures. The university was one of the few institutions with a working forge and there I learned many of the basic disciplines of bronze casting. While difficult, bronze and metal art have an internal energy that I do not think is evidence in any other form of art. I think my training in metal work has created a foundational basis of all of the art I have and probably will produce, at least in the near future.

After graduating from UC Santa Cruz, I stayed in Santa Cruz and continued to develop my metal art techniques. I took courses at Cabrillo College in blacksmithing and also developed expertise in different forms of welding. This has provided me with a strong fundamental background in metal sculpture which I use in my present day work.

I entered the MFA program at State University of New York at Albany with a major in metal sculpture. I graduated in June 2016 and my thesis project was a large composite of five different abstract sculptures. During my graduate studies, I also started experimenting with making metal sculptures of scary creatures, focusing on spiders.

I then entered a residency program in Metal Sculpture in at the Steel Yard in Providence RI where I started making the octopus creatures that are on display at this exhibit.

I have returned to California and presently have jobs at the SFO International Art Museum as a museum preparator and I am an instructor at the Crucible teaching welding and blacksmithing and where I am trying to restart my work on scary creatures.

My work has been shown in a number of exhibitions throughout the US.

EDUCATION

BFA at University of California at Santa Cruz, CA

MFA at State University of New York at Albany, NY

REPRESENTATION

2017 - Present, Dab Art Co., Los Angeles, CA