David Wagner BFA University of Minnesota 1980
I have been working for the last 30 years producing large scale architectural and public art projects throughout the US and Asia. I spent 10 years in Singapore, completing many public art works in SE Asia. Since returning to the US in 1999, I have concentrated on working with architects and other contemporary artists to produce large scale public art, specializing in glass and steel. I often work in the artist team format. I also provide the design, modeling, architect liaison, engineering, fabrication, and installation of public artwork, often in collaboration with a wide range of artists. I am a specialist in glass painting with frits fired at high temperature.
2006 – present Santa Fe, NM
- public artist and consultant, commission designer working in glass and steel
1999 – 2006 Oakland, California
- Established Derix Art Glass Consultants, LLC to develop public art projects, specializing in glass and steel. Extensive travel in US and Asia. Work closely with two dozen European public artists, and a large selection of American and Asian public artists.
1989 – 1999 Singapore
1983 – 1989 Minneapolis
Articles written and published in:
Ministry & Liturgy Stained Glass Quarterly Neus Glas in Deutschland
Environment and Arts Singapore Architect This Side Up
I have been working for the last 30 years producing large scale architectural and public art projects throughout the US and Asia. I spent 10 years in Singapore, completing many public art works in SE Asia. Since returning to the US in 1999, I have concentrated on working with architects and other contemporary artists to produce large scale public art, specializing in glass and steel. I often work in the artist team format. I also provide the design, modeling, architect liaison, engineering, fabrication, and installation of public artwork, often in collaboration with a wide range of artists. I am a specialist in glass painting with frits fired at high temperature.
2006 – present Santa Fe, NM
- public artist and consultant, commission designer working in glass and steel
1999 – 2006 Oakland, California
- Established Derix Art Glass Consultants, LLC to develop public art projects, specializing in glass and steel. Extensive travel in US and Asia. Work closely with two dozen European public artists, and a large selection of American and Asian public artists.
- Funding review panelist for public and cultural art in Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Nagoya, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, etc.
- Curate art glass exhibition for Jujo Conference in Nagoya, Japan August 2002, 2004
- Numerous lectures on architectural art glass at Pilchuck, Corning, Melbourne, Nagoya, and Singapore
- Keynote speaker for Stained Glass Association conference 2005
- Keynote speaker for Int’l Architectural Art Glass conference, Reykjavik, 2006
- Set up first public art program in Taiwan, in Kaohsiung for KRTC train project 2003 – 2006. Organized public art seminars for Taiwanese artists
1989 – 1999 Singapore
- Architectural art glass consultant and designer – work with European studios and Asian architects and arts commissions on large scale glass and mural installations throughout the region including Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and Japan.
- Extensive travel and study of Indonesian and Malaysian traditional and contemporary art
- Curate exhibition of Japanese art glass techniques – Singapore Design Center
- Curate exhibition of European architectural art glass, including autonomous work, at Australian Art Glass Conference in Adelaide
1983 – 1989 Minneapolis
- Architectural art glass studio; designer, manager
Articles written and published in:
Ministry & Liturgy Stained Glass Quarterly Neus Glas in Deutschland
Environment and Arts Singapore Architect This Side Up