David Packer (artist)
American artist
David Packer (born January 2, 1960), is an English artist based in New York. He works in a variety of media: sculpture, drawing, and artist books.
Content and media
As a sculptor, Packer works primarily in ceramics, and has been described “as a master practitioner of architectural and technical ceramics”; however, he also has used found lumber and discarded industrial metal. often with “redundant technology imaging redundant industry.”
Exhibitions and residencies
Packer has exhibited in New York City at Garth Clark Gallery in 2002, where he also had three other group shows, and in the group show, Exit Biennial II, Traffic, at Exit Art, 2005, curated by Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman.
In 2006, during a three-month residency at the Kohler Arts/Industry program, Packer began a project creating full-size cast ceramic sculptures of V8 car engines, called The Last of the V8s. These sculptures were also included in the show The Moment at Hand at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, as well as subsequently in galleries in New York, Chicago, and Seattle.
Collections and curating
Packer’s work is included in the public collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and the Museum of Art and Design.
Travel and other projects
The first time Packer was a Fulbright Scholar to Morocco, in Fez in 2011, after three exhibitions of his own work there, he wrote a book on the diversity of Moroccan ceramics. The Earth has Three Colors: a celebration of Moroccan ceramics/ That same year, he received a Core Fulbright Scholar award to Morocco to continue research and promote his book.
Biography, education, and teaching
Packer was born in Amersham, England in 1960 and has lived in the United States since 1983, including Washington DC, Miami, Tallahassee and, since 1994, New York City.
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