NEWS ARCHIVE:
David continues to show in New York
David's piece 'Eucalyptus' was included in the show Summer Selections 2010 at Denise Bibro Fine Art. This is David's first inclusion in the main gallery.
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Art Hamptons 2010
'Lavender' was featured at Art Hamptons 2010. David is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art. For more information about the show click here.
Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor is the title of a new thematic exhibition that opened at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center on July 11, 2010 and continues through October 10th 2010.
Featuring the works of Northwest regional American and Canadian artists, the show uses Port Angeles's role as a harbor community to serve as the vehicle for exploring broader implications of that identity, both locally and on the larger world stage. As a noun harbor connotes a sheltered port or a place of refuge. As a verb harbor means to secretly shelter some one or thing or to maintain and sustain thoughts, perceptions and feelings internally.
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Strait Art Twenty Ten
Eisenhour shows at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.
The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center opened a new exhibition, Strait Art Twenty Ten on March 14, 2010.
This marks the 20th edition of the Center's annual series dedicated to the artists of Juan de Fuca country. Featuring twenty-nine artists spread across the north Peninsula from Joyce to Port Townsend, Strait Art, unlike other multi-artist exhibitions presented at PAFAC, has no pre-determined theme other than the artists' place of residency. "However," said PAFAC director Jake Seniuk, "that requirement is not meant to direct or restrict imagery or subject to any specific physical terrain, although all who live in this rhapsodic landscape are most assuredly inspired every time they glance out the window."
Formal sculpture is represented by David Eisenhour's elegant welded steel cast bronze of deeply textured organic forms that are based on enlarged plant life.
birds * Smith Vallee Gallery
8/7/2010 - 8/29/2010
A group exhibition featuring artwork from over 50 Northwest artists, "Birds" showcased hundreds of artworks that will form flocks of birds whizzing through our old schoolhouse building. Eisenhour showed 'Birds of Prey' and Barn Owl's Dream.
Bellwether 2010, Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition 
Once every two years the Bellevue Arts Commission invites the community to stroll among sculptures at the Downtown Park and various other Downtown venues, and to experience sculptures' shape, emotion and form.
The mission: to engage the community with a presentation of a broadly inclusive range of contemporary sculpture. The exhibition draws artists from across the United States and Canada and showcases the diversity of material, technique and content of today's sculptors.
Click here to read more about the show and see David installing his piece 'Lichen Horn'.
David at Platform Gallery ~ New York
David's first New York City show will be a solo show opening in Denise Bibro Platform Gallery on November 12 and run through December 19, 2009. Platform is Denise Bibro Fine Art's dedicated project space fully-focused on showcasing new and emerging contemporary artists. Launched in September 2007, Platform's goal is to highlight local New York-area curators, emerging artists and spotlight works outside of the mainstream. Click here to visit the gallery.
52nd Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art
“Language of Horns” has been Juried into the 52nd Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art at Chautauqua, NY from June 28 - July 21, 2009. The annual exhibition of approximately 30 works is selected from hundreds of submissions nationally and internationally. This exhibition of works by contemporary artists, national and international, is Juried this year by Denise Bibro, Director of Denise Bibro Gallery located in the Chelsea Art District in New York City. The show will be a colorful blend of two and three dimensional pieces, including paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture.
David’s Sculpture ‘Mother Grain’ will be featured in the juried exhibition “Flora: Growing Inspirations”
US Botanic Garden, 245 First Street, S.W., Washington DC From"
May 23 – October 12, 2009. The show ‘Flora: Growing Inspirations’
celebrates the place plants have long held in culture through artistic expression and symbolic representation. Essential as the energy base of all terrestrial life, plants carry out complex life processes and show remarkable diversity of form. They possess a powerful and persistent, if quiet, life force – one strong enough to buckle sidewalks, cleanse Earth’s atmosphere, support the energy needs of nearly all life forms, and bear witness to generations of human history. Contemporary artists were encouraged to draw on the fundamental strength of plants’ life force for powerful metaphors that comment on the state of modern society and individual human existence.
The Washington Sculptors Group is co-sponsoring the exhibition. The WSSG is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness of sculpture and fostering exchanges among sculptors, sculpture enthusiasts and the public. Visit www.washingtonsculptors.org for more information about WSG membership and programs.
The United States Botanic Garden (USBG) is operated by the Congress of the United States. It is located in Washington, DC on the National Mall across First Street SW from the US Capitol. Annual visitation is estimated at 850,000. The newly renovated Conservatory offers the citizens of Washington and visitors from across the nation a living plant museum that interprets the importance and irreplaceable value of plants to the well-being of humans and earth’s fragile ecosystems. For more information visit: http://www.usbg.gov.
'Watershed Notes' fountain is dedicated
David's fountain 'Watershed Notes' has been installed in the courtyard of the Webster House at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The fountain was commissioned by Jane Floyd in honor of her late husband, Ron Floyd.
Eisenhour's design uses multiple bronze elements mounted on glacial boulders to create an ensemble that evokes the Olympic environment with imagery and sound. Three bronze leaves, each with a 4-foot span, are naturalistically rendered as stepped planes over which water flows. The crenulated texture of a maple leaf, the stiff expanse of a salal leaf and the fan-like form of an ancient ginkgo provide opportunities for the water to pool and reflect, while at the same time discharging many rivulets that splash with sparkling timbres in the sound chamber formed by the parabolic sweep of the Webster House.
The marine environment enters the design in the form of bronze crustaceans mounted to the stones to conjure a tide pool. Eisenhour's mastery of patinas will evoke a high degree of naturalism while creating a harmonious mood through colors integrated with the natural setting.
Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader 11/19/2008
Sculpture 
By David Eisenhour
Art lovers will enjoy this full-color book featuring the sensuous sculptures of Port Hadlock's David Eisenhour. Depicting the natural world's minutia, each of Eisenhour's pieces forces the observer to engage in a new way of seeing the life that surrounds us, and the tactile response to his work is still present even in this two-dimensional form.
Port Townsend resident Ann Welch designed this book using photography by Frank Ross Photographic and Suzanne Beal wrote an illuminating essay about David's work. A lovely product, available only by calling Eisenhour at 643-1312.
News Archive
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects have placed three of David's sculptures in one of their new residential projects. Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects has received the American Institute of Architects’ 2009 AIA Architecture Firm Award. The distinction is based on the Seattle firm’s thirty-five years of consistently excellent work, including its seamless blending of architecture, art, and craft; community involvement; attention to sustainable design; and nurturing of in-house talent.
ENVISION CASCADIA - JULY 5-NOVEMBER 29
33 Pacific Northwest artists imagine a homeland
David's work is featured in 'Envision Cascadia' at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center opens a new exhibition titled Envision Cascadia on July 5 with an artists’ reception from 2-4 pm. The show includes the works of Pacific Northwest artists who responded to a call to ponder their homeland — the emerald territory that lies between the snowy ramparts of the Cascade Mountains and the rugged shoreline of the blue Pacific.
“Artists from Oregon, Washington and British Columbia submitted work related to a state of mind that we’re calling Cascadia,” said PAFAC director and exhibition curator, Jake Seniuk. “Cascadia won’t be found on a triple-A road map, because road maps are gridded out in compliance with political logic. Cascadia’s boundaries are defined not by contracts and laws, but by the human imagination and by the natural ecology that comprises this bioregion.
David's work is reviewed in Sculpture Magazine - June 2009
The 2008 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, "Sculpted Green", 
displayed 39 works at City Hall and Downtown Park, addressing environmental and ecological concerns. If one of them, David Eisenhour's "Winter Mandala" loosely referenced Buddhist spirituality, it also suggested balance between man and the natural world. Taking inspiration from a a sand dollar that served as a personal meditative aid, Eisenhour's larger-than-life, stainless steel form displays the marine animal's five-fold radial symmetry, together with the pores that draw water into its internal vascular system and allow it to move, thereby underscoring an important interdependence between the environment and those that live in it. Situated on the water and surrounded by nature, Bellevue and Seattle have shown support for artists who integrate their surrounding environments into their artistic perspectives and demonstrate a keen interest in the very literal lay of the land. Suzanne Beal
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center July 13 thru October 5, 2008
June 14 to October 5, 2008 David’s work will be shown at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center from July 13th thru October 13th. The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is the westernmost center for contemporary art in the contiguous United States. Located in the shadow of Olympia National Park, its superlative physical setting provides an inspiring frame for cultural offerings.
David's Sculpture 'Language of Horns' is chosen for inclusion in the Peace Arch Park Twelfth Annual International Sculpture Exhibition
May 1, 2009 - April 1,
2010 Peace Arch International Park is the Western United States International Gateway to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In the spirit of the international goodwill of the games, the USCPAA is pleased to announce that our Twelfth Annual Peace Arch Park International Sculpture Exhibition will open May 1st, 2009, and will run through April 1st, 2010. The twelfth annual exhibit will include a special edition exhibit and park history tour brochure. The exhibit will be a featured tourist attraction during the 2009 summer tourist season and the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
2008 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition 
David’s sculptures 'Winter Mandala' and 'Language of Horns' will be included in the 2008 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition. Many of the works to be on display at City Hall and Downtown Park from June 14 to Oct. 5 will relate art to ecology, environmentalism, sustainability and similar "green" notions. The sculptures have been selected by a panel of regionally and nationally respected jurors: Stephen DeLeon White, Owner, DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto Akio Takamori, Ceramic Sculptor and University of Washington Professor, Seattle Patricia Watts, Chief Curator, Sonoma County Museum & Founder, ecoartspace.org, Santa Rosa, Calif. Susan Zoccola, Sculptor and Public Artist, Seattle The opening will be on Saturday, June 14th from 6:00 to 8:00pm at Bellevue's award-winning City Hall.