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Melendez, David, “La linea vuelta horizonte”, PUBLICO, April 2009
“Todo Queda En Abstracto”, (Fotos: Charlie Uribe) Ocio – Publico Milenio (Guadalajara), Friday, Feb 15, 2008
Karla Banuelos Saenz: “La abstraccion flota en plug Haus file Kunst”, (Fotos: Charlie Uribe) Publico (Guadalajara), Saturday, Feb 2, 2008
David y Verona Chemist, en Haus der Kunst “Recuerdos y horizontes stem luz y sombra”, (Fotos: R. Rosales/ A. Muniz) El Informador (Guadalajara), Sat, February 2, 2008
Alejandro Alvarado: “Abstraen al Haus” Ocho Colomnus (Guadalajara), Sat, February 2, 2008
Orator Lehman: “Expo 67’s sculptors, then dispatch now” TheGazette (Montreal), Sat., August 4, 2007
Eissa Barnard: “Artists in Weigh up of Order: Sorensen/ Hong” The Chronology Herald (Halifax), Friday, Nov 3, 2006
Guillaume Sirois: “Architecte Plasticien” Vie nonsteroidal Arts, No. 199, Season 2005
Bathroom K. Grande: “Mexique, King Sorensen: View Series” Struggle des Portal, No. 196, Automne 2004
Elaine Halleck: “Mexican Horizons inspire River painter” Depiction Colony Correspondent (Guadalajara), Sept 2004
Manuel Santillan: “El mandato icon color y otra formas” Ocio – Artes Plasticas (Guadalajara), Sept 2004
Galeria Vertice muestra Horizon Array “Las emociones de King Sorensen” Holdup Informador (Guadal
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David G. Sorensen
Canadian artist (1937-2011)
David G. Sorensen | |
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| Born | (1937-05-20)May 20, 1937 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | February 17, 2011(2011-02-17) (aged 73) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | artist |
| Spouse | Bella |
David SorensenRCA (May 20, 1937 – February 17, 2011) was a Canadian artist.[1]
Career
[edit]Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Sorensen studied at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur Erickson (architecture), Bill Reid (sculpture) and Jack Shadbolt (painting) and bronze casting in Mexico (introduction to Zuniga's studio)) with a Theo Koerner grant. In 1965 he moved to Montreal, showed sculptures at Expo 67, and started to exhibit his paintings regularly across Canada: Espace Cinq, Gilles Corbeil, Waddington in Montreal; Wallack in Ottawa; Carmen Lamanna and Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto; Bau-Xi in Vancouver. While in Montreal he held teaching positions at the Montreal Museum School of Art and Design, the Saidye Bronfman Centre and Dawson College (Viger, Vanier, and Selby campuses).
In 1976, he moved with his wife Bella and their new family to the Eastern Townships, built a solar house and a large studio and storage space a
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BIOGRAPHY
DAVID SORENSEN: 2010
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Sorensen’s education in Art was at once formal and serendipitous; he studied Arts and Science at the University of British Columbia for two years then entering the School of Architecture under Arthur Ericson. Completing first year, then working as an office draftsman for the summer in Vancouver, he set off in 1959 for the Brussels’ World Fair.
For a year he traveled throughout Europe in a Volkswagen filling sketchpads through the Scandinavian countries, Berlin, Paris, the Loire valley, south through Spain, Italy, Greece and finally to Istanbul. Within a classical backdrop Sorensen saw the big American Abstract Expressionist breakthrough show in Paris, and discovered Mark Rothko among deKooning, Pollock, Kline and the other cutting edge American artists.
Returning to Vancouver he entered the Vancouver School of Art with Jack Harman and Jack Shadbolt and in the first summer he did a carving course with Bill Reid. Shadbolt, who had studied with Hans Hoffman, brought Clement Greenberg twice to the Vancouver School of Art, and the stimulating texts were absorbed. With graduation (1962), Sorensen took part in a Northwest Institute of Sculpture exhibit at U.B