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Autobody Bridge Program 2017

Autobody Bridge Program: Session 5 

Program Dates: February 7th - April 25th (12 Sessions)

When: Tuesdays 7-10pm

Where: Autobody Fine Art, Alameda, CA

Cost: $550

Application deadline: Rolling application deadline

** We will hold an Information Session on Tuesday January 17th, 7pm @ Autobody Fine Art**

Description:

With the cost of advanced degrees on the rise, the Autobody Bridge Program is designed to address the needs of young and emerging artists who are attempting to further their practice without necessarily attending a formal Graduate Program in Fine Arts.

And we want to make it as close to free as we possibly can!  

Artists will be accepted two times a year.  Building upon work produced either independently, participants will learn to focus their aesthetic and sharpen their technical skills in ways that promote the personal artistic growth necessary for engaging the artworld on a professional level.  The program focuses (but is not limited to) the contemporary art practice of painting and drawing, and advocates the making, theory and discursive critique of objects produced by enrolled artists.

Artists will produce a comprehensive body of work under the guidance of the program facilitators in conjunction with artists’ studio visits, lectures and critiques. The Bridge Program provides intense immersion into the practice and profession of being an artist.  The program culminates in an exhibition that is conceived and curated by the artists with the support and advice of the program facilitators.

6-9 Artists per session

Individual Critiques and studio sessions on Tuesday evenings

Visiting Artist Lectures

Mid-Term Group Critique

Group Show at Autobody Fine Art the end of each session

Target Candidate:

Emerging artists who are considering graduate school or exhibition opportunities and are looking for something structured to help them produce a body of work.  Artists who have recently finished undergrad or grad school who are searching for the next step in their art career.

APPLICATION

Include the following:

Letter of Intent

8-10 images of recent work

CV

submit applications or questions to: davidburke13@gmail.com

Instructors/Facilitators:

Jacqueline Cooper received her Masters Degree in Fine Arts from UCLA in 1998 and has worked for the last twenty years as an Art Professor, Independent Curator, Art Critic and Gallerist. Between 1995-2000 she worked as the Los Angeles Editor for the Chicago New Art Examiner writing critical reviews and longer editorial pieces whilst also opening an independent artspace, 208 South La Brea Gallery in Los Angeles. Having moved to San Francisco in 2004 she worked as a Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute and in 2007 she opened Autobody Fine Art Inc. More details and images of all of the past exhibitions can be found at www.autobodygalleryandstudios.com. Jacqueline Cooper is currently the Artistic Director of the Sun Gallery, Hayward and the Fine Art photography and Video Coordinator of the Alameda County Fair.

Dickson Schneider is an artist and professor. He has taught at California State University East Bay for 15 years - Painting, Drawing, Art History, seminars on contemporary art, over 25 different classes. He is an accomplished artist in many different media, including Oils, Acrylics, and Egg Tempera. He also works in video and digital art.  His free art project has traveled to New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Berlin, Munich, Portland, Seattle (and more) where he engages local communities in a dialogue about the value of art through the free exchange of original artwork. This has given him a first hand look at the contemporary art world and that experience has informed his teaching.

David Burke received his MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2002.  He has taught art at various levels for the last ten years, most recently at Chiang Mai University in Northern Thailand.  He is the art director for the Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project and exhibits at Vessel Gallery in Oakland.   (www.dburke.org)

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Autobody Bridge Program 2016

Autobody Bridge Program: Session 4

Program Dates: May 10th - August 2nd (12 Sessions)

When: Tuesdays 7-10pm

Where: Autobody Fine Art, Alameda, CA

Cost: $450

Application deadline: Rolling application deadline

** We will hold an Information Session on Tuesday April 19th, 7pm @ Autobody Fine Art** 

Description:

With the cost of advanced degrees on the rise, the Autobody Bridge Program is designed to address the needs of young and emerging artists who are attempting to further their practice without necessarily attending a formal Graduate Program in Fine Arts.

And we want to make it as close to free as we possibly can!  

Artists will be accepted two times a year.  Building upon work produced either independently, participants will learn to focus their aesthetic and sharpen their technical skills in ways that promote the personal artistic growth necessary for engaging the artworld on a professional level.  The program focuses (but is not limited to) the contemporary art practice of painting and drawing, and advocates the making, theory and discursive critique of objects produced by enrolled artists.

Artists will produce a comprehensive body of work under the guidance of the program facilitators in conjunction with artists’ studio visits, lectures and critiques. The Bridge Program provides intense immersion into the practice and profession of being an artist.  The program culminates in an exhibition that is conceived and curated by the artists with the support and advice of the program facilitators.

6-9 Artists per session

Individual Critiques and studio sessions on Tuesday evenings

Visiting Artist Lectures

Mid-Term Group Critique

Group Show at Autobody Fine Art the end of each session

Target Candidate:

Emerging artists who are considering graduate school or exhibition opportunities and are looking for something structured to help them produce a body of work.  Artists who have recently finished undergrad or grad school who are searching for the next step in their art career.

APPLICATION

Include the following:

Letter of Intent

8-10 images of recent work

CV

submit applications or questions to: davidburke13@gmail.com

Instructors/Facilitators:

Jacqueline Cooper received her Masters Degree in Fine Arts from UCLA in 1998 and has worked for the last twenty years as an Art Professor, Independent Curator, Art Critic and Gallerist. Between 1995-2000 she worked as the Los Angeles Editor for the Chicago New Art Examiner writing critical reviews and longer editorial pieces whilst also opening an independent artspace, 208 South La Brea Gallery in Los Angeles. Having moved to San Francisco in 2004 she worked as a Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute and in 2007 she opened Autobody Fine Art Inc. More details and images of all of the past exhibitions can be found at www.autobodygalleryandstudios.com. Jacqueline Cooper is currently the Artistic Director of the Sun Gallery, Hayward and the Fine Art photography and Video Coordinator of the Alameda County Fair.

Dickson Schneider is an artist and professor. He has taught at California State University East Bay for 15 years - Painting, Drawing, Art History, seminars on contemporary art, over 25 different classes. He is an accomplished artist in many different media, including Oils, Acrylics, and Egg Tempera. He also works in video and digital art.  His free art project has traveled to New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Berlin, Munich, Portland, Seattle (and more) where he engages local communities in a dialogue about the value of art through the free exchange of original artwork. This has given him a first hand look at the contemporary art world and that experience has informed his teaching.

David Burke received his MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2002.  He has taught art at various levels for the last ten years, most recently at Chiang Mai University in Northern Thailand.  His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and he is currently the art director for a local mural arts program based in West Oakland.   (www.dburke.org)

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Interview for Bureau of Arts and Culture Magazine

An interview I did with editor J. A. Triliegi for the Fall issue of Bureau of Arts and Culture Magazine.

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An interview I did with J. A. Triliegi, editor of the Fall issue of Bureau of Arts and Culture Magazine.

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Oakland Super Heroes Mural #3: Call for Mural Assistants

Position: Mural Assistant

Attitudinal Healing Connection (AHC), a non-profit organization in West Oakland is looking for Bay Area artists to help paint the third mural in the ongoing Oakland Super Heroes mural project.  This is a series of six large-scale murals to be painted underneath 580 in the Hoover Corridor Neighborhood located in West Oakland.  Using the theme of the self as super hero, the murals are designed by local grade school students.  These projects uplift and positively transform the neighborhood while telling the stories of the youth who are growing up here.  The second mural was completed last year and AHC is searching for local artists to assist in the painting of the third mural in September/October.  These murals serve as a gateway to West and Downtown Oakland and are integral to how our community is perceived. This is a call for local artists interested in community based public art projects that contribute to revitalizing the Hoover District in West Oakland.

www.oaklandmuralproject.com

Qualifications:

- Be over 18 years of age

- Have previous mural painting experience

- MUST CARE! Be passionate about social justice & want to create positive change in the community

- Experience working with youth is a plus

Compensation: $100-$125/day (depending on experience)

Estimated Dates of Project: Sept 21 thru October 30**

**Selected artists will be expected to work 3-5 days/week for roughly one month.  

Application Requirements:

1) Letter of Interest

2) Resume

3) 2-3 References

4) Images of previous mural work

Deadline: Rolling Application Deadline until all positions are filled

Please Submit Application Materials and Questions to:

david@dburke.org & muralproject@ahc-oakland.org

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Seeking Balance @ Vessel Gallery

October 1st to November 14th 

Paintings by David Burke

Works on Paper by Kyong Ae Kim

Sculptures by Cyrus Tilton

Opening Reception: Friday October 2nd 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Saturday October 10th 2pm

**a portion of the proceeds from all sales will be donated to the family of local artist Antonio Ramos who tragically lost his life during a community mural project here in Oakland.

Vessel Gallery 471 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612

HOURS Tuesday through Saturday 11AM - 6PM First Fridays of the month 3 - 9PM

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Notions of Romance at Vessel Gallery

Happy New Year!

I am thrilled to have a couple of paintings included in the "Notions of Romance" group show at Vessel Gallery in Oakland.

Notions of Romance

A Group Show

David Burke, Thekla Hammond, Gordon Glasgow, Diana Hobson,  Christy Kovacs, Walter James Mansfield, Kevan Jenson, Cyrus Tilton, Sanjay Vora

January 2 - February 14, 2015

Artist Reception and Murmur Opening: Friday, January 2, 6:00 - 9:00 PM

3rd Thursday:  January 22, 6-8PM, with Artist Talk and Tour at 6:45PM, Live music following What role does the contemporary visual artist play in conveying such messages of romance? What constitutes notions of romance?  Do these originate in the heart, the mind, from our physical selves? These artists suggest to the viewer that a range of experiences can elicit romance.  Is the act of making art romantic?  Do we project ideas of romance onto the subjects we view?  Do we personalize what we are seeing, what we want to see, feel, experience romantically?  Do we find romance in a place like a landscape? In the iconic rites of spring? In symbols? Or do we see it in objects of fancy?  Romantic notions: are they simply figments of our collective or individual imaginations?  Buried in memories, language, words, music, poetry, novels, movies. This collection of artworks helps us understand how notions of romance might be revealed.

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Basel or Bust!

Autobody Fine Art is headed back to Aqua in Miami Beach this year. I'll be showing an excerpt from a new series of work titled "Mutations", along side ten other talented Bay Area artists.

Come visit us if you're in the neighborhood! Aqua Art Miami at the Aqua Hotel 1530 Collins Ave Miami Beach, FL 33139 SUITE 212

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Autobody Bridge Program: Session 2

  Dates: TBA- Summer '14

When: Tuesdays 7-10pm (12 sessions)

Cost: $400

Rolling Applications

Description:

The Autobody Bridge Program is designed to address the needs of young and emerging artists who are attempting to further their practice without necessarily attending a formal Graduate Program in Fine Arts. Students will be accepted three times a year following review of application materials and an interview with the Program facilitators, all of whom are working and exhibiting artists and professors. Building upon work produced either independently or in Undergraduate School, students will learn to focus their aesthetic, sharpen their technical skills that will promote the personal artistic growth necessary for application to Graduate School or entry into the world of exhibiting professionally. The Program focuses on Contemporary Art Practice, specifically Painting and Drawing, and advocates the making, theory and discursive critique of objects produced by enrolled students.

This innovative Program expects that accepted students will produce a comprehensive body of work under the guidance of the program facilitators in conjunction with artists’ studio visits, lectures and critiques. The Bridge Program provides intense immersion into the practice and profession of being an artist and will culminate in an exhibition (either group or individual) that is conceived and curated by the students with the support and advice of the Program facilitators. 

6-9 Artists per session

Individual Critiques on Tuesday evenings or by appointment

Visiting Artist Lectures

Mid-Term Group Critique

Group Show at Autobody Fine Art the end of each session

Target Candidate:

Young artists who are considering graduate school or exhibition opportunities and are looking for something structured to help them produce a body of work.  Young artists who have recently finished undergrad, are searching for the next step, but can't afford graduate school.

********************************************************* **Application: Due Friday May 30th 

Include the following:

Letter of Intent

8-10 images of recent work

CV

submit applications to: davidburke13@gmail.com

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Instructors/Facilitators:

Jacqueline Cooper received her Masters Degree in Fine Arts from UCLA in 1998 and has worked for the last twenty years as an Art Professor, Independent Curator, Art Critic and Gallerist. Between 1995-2000 she worked as the Los Angeles Editor for the Chicago New Art Examiner writing critical reviews and longer editorial pieces whilst also opening an independent artspace, 208 South La Brea Gallery in Los Angeles. Having moved to San Francisco in 2004 she worked as a Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute and in 2007 she opened Autobody Fine Art Inc. on the island of Alameda and successfully took the organization through non-profit incorporation. Autobody Fine Art Inc. was the only contemporary art space on the island and specialized in showing sculpture and installation artwork. More details and images of all of the past exhibitions can be found at www.autobodyfineart.com. Jacqueline Cooper is currently the Artistic Director of the Sun Gallery, Hayward and the Fine Art photography and Video Coordinator of the Alameda County Fair. 

Dickson Schneider is an artist and professor. He has taught at California State University East Bay for 15 years - Painting, Drawing, Art History, seminars on contemporary art, over 25 different classes. He is an accomplished artist in many different media, including Oils, Acrylics, and Egg Tempera. He also works in video and digital art. One of his activities is visiting the art world in person. In the past five years he has been to New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Berlin, Munich, Portland, Seattle (and more) visiting the particular art scenes there. This has given him a first hand look at the contemporary art world and that experience has informed his teaching. (www.dicksonschneider.com)

David Burke received his MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2002.  He has taught art at various levels for the last ten years, most recently at Chiang Mai University in Northern Thailand.  His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and he is currently the art director for a local mural arts program based in West Oakland.   (www.dburke.org)

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Urban Grit at Gary Francis

I have a couple of ink drawings that will be included in a group show at Gary Francis Fine Art in Alameda in January.  Stop by and check out this great new space!

Urban Grit at Gary Francis

Opening Reception• January 10 6-9pm

Jan 8 • Feb 2

1419-e Park St • Alameda • CA

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Settling into the Oakland Studio

It's taken some time, but things are starting to heat up in the Oakland studio.  

piggin' out

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Group Exhibition "Sugar" opens at Autobody Fine Art September 14th

“SUGAR” 

  September 14th – October 11th, 2013

Reception:

Saturday September 14th 

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Beer, Bacon and Donuts )

  Co-curated by Dickson Schneider and Jacqueline Cooper

Artists include: 

Anastasia Tracy Schipani                                        

Colin Herrick 

Helen Bayly                                                              

Dickson Schneider 

Jacqueline Cooper                                                    

David Burke 

Ryan Blackman                                                        

Philip Long 

Zsusanna Laszlo                                                      

Natalie Gomez 

Rita Heidtman                                                          

Lisa Pisa 

NoMe Edonna                                                            

Alexis Berger 

Chris Rummell 

  Autobody Fine Art will be reopening on September 14th with an exhibition featuring new and emerging artists from the East Bay. It’s been a while since we’ve had a show up here under the Autobody label so we’re pulling out all the stops! Titled “Sugar”, the exhibition aims to examine the reasons and results of the creative process and question the attitudes and anxiety that audiences often exhibit when encountering the unfamiliar. The exhibition suggests that the creative environment, physical/conceptual, temporal/spiritual is the territory in dispute and that without the freedom to explore these arenas then art atrophies and cannot bear the weight of its own meaning. But the resolution of these issues in the production of an art object is sweet. Like sugar. 

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Solo Exhibition at Auto Body Fine Art

PUMP AND DUMP PROSPERITY

October 13th-November 5th

Opening Reception October 13th 6-9pm 

Closing Reception November 3rd 5-8pm

Auto Body Fine Art

1517 Park St.

Alameda, CA, 94501

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Slump Busting

How do you know if you're in a painting slump?  As a baseball player, I had hard statistics that let me know I was in a slump.  If I was had zero hits in my last twenty at bats, I knew I was in a slump.  Artistic slumps are more elusive, less quantifiable.  For the last month I found myself going through the motions in the studio.  When I was there, the space felt cold and foreign to me.  There were days when I would simply avoid it all together.  I decided that it was time to switch things up, pack up a mobile studio, and create my own residency in the mountains of Calaveras County.  

I spent one week in the open air of the mountains, painting, writing and meditating.  I created a loose structure for myself:  wake up, make coffee, write, and get to work.  

I tried to silence, or least muffle the inner critic, and just look, listen and paint.  Some days were extremely productive, others less so.

  There were no great epiphanies, and in the end I'm not sure I made anything that will stick in the long run.  The time and space of quiet solitude allowed me to clarify my intentions as an artist and a husband.  I identified some of the bad habits that I had established in my daily routine and attempted to create realistic goals to break those habits.  

This week was not about creating a finished product.  It was about getting back to making things and reminding myself why I love painting so much.  

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Super Hero Mural, West Oakland

I recently finished a mural underneath the 580 highway in West Oakland.  The mural is 20' x 180' and was completed in nineteen days.  I had an amazing crew of assistants consisting of local painters and graffiti artists.  

The mural is located on San Pablo Ave. between 35th St &  36th St. in West Oakland. 

The project was sponsored by the Attitudinal Healing Connection, a non-profit committed to building healthy communities and breaking the cycle of violence by providing platforms for creative expression and communication to children, youth, adults and families.  This is the first of a series six murals that will run along the Hoover Corridor in West Oakland.  

the crew

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March Madness

from electric chairs to gas masks

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February- Chairs

Electric Chairs on orange vinyl

studio chair flanked by electric chairs

Electric-Blue-Chair

more chairs