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David Maes Gallegos was born in Denver, Colorado, on September 23, 1954. After winning scholarships in painting and drawing, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with high distinction from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1974. In 1977 Gallegos received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Printmaking from the University of California - San Francisco. In the San Francisco Bay area From 1978 to 1990, Mr. Gallegos had numerous one person and group museum exhibitions. During this time he worked with Tamarind lithographer, Ernest DeSoto, And in 1985 produced his first social conscious poster “Art for Peace.”
From 1986 to 1992 the Artist traveled throughout the United States and abroad.
From 1992 to present he has traveled to Japan for numerous museum and gallery
exhibitions met with great success. Among other awards, he is the winner of the
Interfaith Forum on Art, Religion and Architecture International Arts Award
Program. Gallegos art has been featured in Architectural Digest, Art in America,
Artweek, and the Encyclopedia of Living Artists.
David Gallegos has displayed in a number of prominent museums and galleries
including The Richmond and Redding Art museums, Harcourt’s Contemporary and the
Mexican Museum California; The Northern IIllinois University Gallery in Chicago;
the Hobart Gallery in Santa Barbara; The Gallery Ravel in Austin, Texas, the
Stanford University Art Museum at Stanford; Arizona University of Art Museum in
Tucson, and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
David Gallegos work hangs in a great number of private and corporate collections
and is in constant demand for commissions throughout the United States and
abroad.
The Artist currently works in Hawaii with his partner and wife, sculptress
Crystal Lockwood starting www.gallewood.com in 1995.
Acquisitions and Exhibitions
Richmond Art Center
Richmond, California
Redding Museum and Art
Center
Redding, California
U.S. House of
Representatives
Washington, D.C.
Landmark Tower Trade Center
Tokyo, Japan
Boeing Corporation
Sony Corporation
Embassy Suites Hotel Corporation
City of South Lake Tahoe and Barton Memorial Hospital, Lake Tahoe, California
City of Palm Springs, California
Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood, California
The Robert and Margrit Mondavi Collection Oakville, California
City of Sendai, Japan , City of Morioka, Japan
United Breweries Group International, Bombay, India
California Palace of the
Legion of Honor
San Francisco, California
State of Montana, Representative Tim McDowell
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery
| MAJOR
PRODUCTIONS AND CREDITS | |
2003 - | All Hawaii Juried Exhibition - 2nd Place Award, East Hawaii Cultural Center |
2003 - | Arts Pacifica Biennial - Jurors Excellence Award, Wailoa Center, Hilo, Hawaii |
2003 - | East Hawaii Cultural Center Juried Exhibition, Hilo, Hawaii |
2002 - | Juror - Sausalito Arts Festival 50th Anniversary, Sausalito, California |
2001 - | Juror - Sausalito Annual Arts Exposition Sausalito, California |
2000 - |
Robert Mondavi Cultural Center - Spirit Art Napa, California |
2000 - | Juror - Sausalito Annual Arts Exposition Sausalito, California |
2000 - | Palm Springs Marquis Resort - Spirit Art Palm Springs, California |
1999 - | Napa Valley Art Museum Open Studios Napa Valley, California |
1998 - | Juror - Mill Valley Annual Art Competition Mill Valley, California |
1997 - | Mill Valley Arts Exposition Mill Valley, California |
| ONE PERSON SHOWS | |
1995 - | Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Tokyo "A" Galleries, Japan |
2001- | Osaka and Nagoya Artcom Galleries, Japan |
1995 - | Shikigaro Mitskoshi Gallery Tokyo, Japan |
1994- | Marunouchi Gallery Nagoya, Japan |
1994 - | Robert Mondavi Cultural Center Oakville, California |
1992 - | Gallery Hamilton Beverly Hills, California |
1991- | Kohala Art Center Kamuela, Hawaii |
1990 - | Juniper Gallery Napa, California |
1989 | Frostburg State University Frostburg, Maryland |
1988 - | Lake Gallery Tahoe City, California |
1986 - | Robert Mondavi Cultural Center Oakville, California |
1984 - | The Redding Museum-Art Center Redding, California |
1983 - | The Mexican Museum San Francisco, California |
1981 - | Myers/Weinshel Gallery San Francisco, California |
1980 - | Marjorie Cahn Gallery Los Gatos, California |
1979 - | California State University Art Gallery San Fransisco, California |
| GROUP SHOWS | |
2003 - | Arts Pacifica Hawaii Biennial Award Winner, Wailoa Center, Hilo, Hawaii |
2003 - | East Hawaii CUltural Center Juried Exhibition, Hilo, Hawaii |
2003 - | Sausalito Arts Festival 51st Annual Exhibition, Sausalito, California |
2001 - | Ode to Napa Valley Napa Valley Museum Yountville, California |
2000 - | La Quinta Arts Exposition La Quinta,California |
1999 - | Sausalito Art Exposition, Commission work Sausalito, California |
1998 - | Sausalito Arts Exposition Sausalito, California |
1997 - | La Quinta Arts Exposition La Quinta, California |
1996 - | Sabbatical |
VARIOUS GROUP SHOWS | |
Sausalito Arts Exposition Sausalito, California | |
1993 - | La Quinta Arts Center Palm Springs, California |
1992 - | Hockaday Center for the Arts Kalispell, Montana |
1992 - | Tellac Arts Foundation Lake Tahoe, California |
1990 - | Dow & Frosini Gallery Berkeley, California |
1988 - | Marin Arts Guild Marin County, California |
1987 - | San Francisco Exposition San Francisco, California |
1986 - | Judah L. Magnes Museum Berkeley, California |
1987 - | Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Berkeley, California |
1986 - | Hall of Flowers San Francisco, California |
| SELECTED PRINTS | |
1985 - | Stanford University Art Museum Stanford, California |
1984 - | The University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska |
1983 - | The Galeria/Studio 24 San Francisco, California |
1982 - | The Laguna Beach Museum of Art Laguna Beach, California |
1981 - | Joseph Chowning Gallery San Francisco, California |
1979 - | The Richmond Art Center Richmond, California |
1978 - | Meyers/Weinshel Gallery San Francisco, California Jon/Burke/David Galle'gos Paintings |
1976 - | Isabelle Percy West Gallery Oakland, California |
Pacific Sun (Mill Valley)
"Contemporary Spiritual Themes" by Roberts Floden, "Nature is the religion of the American Indian. Galle'gos has always painted nature…All of his work comes from the memory of the emotion that it evokes." Week of December 12-18, 1986
The Daily Californian (Berkeley)
"New Images of Faith at the Judah L. Magnes Museum"
by Lisa Gramlich, December 12, 1986
East Bay Arts Magazine (Oakland)
"On Exhibit" by Chiori Santiago
"David Galle'gos, Charleene Touchette are the American Indian Artist on Exhibit at the Judah L. Magnes Museum," November 1986
The Northern California Jewish Bulletin
"Magnes Opens Three Shows" by Earl Raab, October 10, 1986
WestArt (Auburn)
"Contemporary Religious Art Compeititon Range from Spiritual Paintings by
David Galle'gos to Altar of All Faiths by Lois Anderson." October 10, 1986
The San Francisco Examiner
"Bay Area Artists Find Inspiration in Their Backyard" by Al Morch
"What interested me were works by emerging artists, especially those who transform the mundane into magic. Among them I discovered the twilight divided highways of David Galle'gos." Saturday, July 5, 1986
The San Francisco Chronicle, Image Magazine
"Canvassing the Local Scene - 100 Bay Area Artists Paint the Local Scene, Hall of Flowers, July 5 - July 13, 1986
Marin Messenger (Mill Valley)
"A Reverence for Nature, David Galle'gos Exhibits in Mill Valley" by Amy Rosenthal Cohn Photo - David Galle'gos and his pug in front of painting,
September 12, 1984
West Art (Auburn)
"David Galle'gos has Art for Peach Exhibit at the Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, California"
Photo - No Defense Against Nuclear Weapons - Chicago Night
Lithograph - Flamingo Club by David Galle'gos, September 18, 1983
The San Francisco Chronicle/Art
"The Mask Power and Pageantry" by Thomas Albright
"The likeness and feeling of animation of Galle'gos' pug sculptures was so striking I began to wonder about the authenticity of the faces of at least the first half dozen people I passed afterward." September 15, 1983
The San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook - Art Museums
"Galle'gos' Sky' is the "Transitions' Show at the Mexican Museum Fort Mason"
Photo - Sky Series #12, July 30, 1983
San Mateo Times Art Section
"Ambiance of the Studio, David Galle'gos at Marshall Meyers Gallery San Francisco"
Photo - The Windmill Club by David Galle'gos, December 16, 1981
Oakland Tribune
"A Study in Contrasts at Valley Art" Photo - Ray's Corner
Crockett Series by David Galle'gos, "Galle'gos classical work evokes calm…His work might fit a new American luminist mold…like his forbears, he points form in terms of the light that hits it…Galle'gos inspires tranquillity." October 9, 1980
Contra Costa Time
"Reception Preview Opens Exhibit" Photo C & H Factory
Crockett Series by David Galle'gos, September 3, 1980
Artweek (Richmond)
"The Watercolor Tradition and Fancy" by Cathy Curtis, "This artist pursues a clearly articulated vision. Galle'gos' Crockett Series has the crispness of objects seen in clear air and extremely bright light. His approach seems to be based on subtle transformations of basic forms perceived in a specific atmosphere - a series exploration of the workings of realism." October 20, 1979, #34
Contra Costs Times, Sunday Magazine "Six Aspiring Watercolorists by Cathy Curtis, "Light and air are Galegos' true subjects…One painting is of a stretch of highway covered with a thin film of water. It makes you realize the rewards of close, selective observation." October 14, 1979
The San Francisco Chronicle "Yearly Exhibit Getting Better - Introductions 78" by Thomas Albright, July 11, 1978
NEVADA
Reno Gazette Journal (Reno, Nevada)
"Galle'gos Returns to Paint Nevada With Exuberance"
Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, Nevada) "David Galle'gos Shows Vegas With Impact at First Galnce. He Captures the Beauty of Vegas That is History"
HAWAII
(Under research - West Hawaii Today, Hilo-Hawaii Tribue,
Kona Views Magazine
NEW YORK
The New York Times
"What's Doing in Berkeley Museums. The IFRAA International Competition Features Work by Amerian Indian Artists Charleene Touchette and David Galle'gos" Through January 4 at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, Sunday, November 9, 1986
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Pahoa, HI 96778
(808) 965-0747
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