DINA ANGEL-WING Biography
Years ago, acclaimed artist Dina Angel-Wing found her ingeniously crafted teapots in the international spotlight. Making use of Japanese motifs and raku firing techniques, Angel-Wing’s functional vessels turned lively witticisms into delightful visual puns. The overwhelming attention the media garnered on these pieces, as well as the devoted patronage of private and public collectors throughout the United States and Europe, allowed the artist increasing freedom to concentrate on fine art sculpture.
Her first fine art series were extravagant clay and mixed media vessels aptly named Dream Boxes for their functional impracticality yet ideal physical representation of containers in which to wrap and preserve dreams.
In recent years, Angel-Wing has focused on smoothly textured, figurative pieces. These partially-formed female forms are juxtaposed against geometric metal environments. The resulting sculptures are mysterious montages incorporating figures suspended against abstract minimalist compositions.
Dina Angel-Wing received a B.A. in Art History from Haifa University, studied sculpture at Jerusalem’s Betzael School of Art, and upon emigrating from her native Israel, studied ceramics with Wayne Horuchi at Stanford University and raku with Andree Thompson at UC Berkeley. She has exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Airport Gallery, Museum of Texas Tech University, Triton Museum, Richmond Art Center, and the Copia Museum of Wine, Food, & Art in Napa, CA. In addition, her work has been featured in such publications as House Beautiful, Home Magazine, International Entertaining Magazine, Home and Garden, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Examiner Image Magazine.
DINA ANGEL-WING Statement
My focus for this figurative series is to express movement beyond the physical confines of the sculpture. Most often I leave the figure unfinished, still in the state of creation and juxtaposed against the angular lines of the steel stands. The stands become part of the figure either by defining it or by extending a dynamic line.
DINA ANGEL-WING Resumé
Selected Exhibitions “Body Language 2011,” a new leaf gallery | sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA
“Body Works,” a new leaf gallery | sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA
“Anniversary Show,” Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“Bronze Sculpture Show,” Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
“The Figure,” Sirani Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
One Person Show, The Rentz Gallery, Richmond, VA
“Figurative Sculptures,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Figurative Sculpture,” A New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, CA
“Clay & Glass Sculpture,” Hayward City Gallery, Hayward, CA
“Poetry in Clay & Glass,” Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
“Sculpture & Painting,” Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA
One Person Sculpture Exhibition, Wililam Zimmer Gallery, Mendocino, CA
“Garden Treasures,” Japanese Garden Society Gallery, San Diego, CA
“Artcraft Show,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Collections
Cumm Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Leslie Ceramics Collection, Berkeley, CA
Antonio Prieto Collection, Mills College, Oakland, CA
John Denver Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Embassy of Luxembourg, Tokyo, Japan
Brunnenburg Museum, Italy
Gwen Laurie Smits Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Commissions
The Heritage Museum Fillmore Jazz Center, “Bust of Leroy King, San Francisco Commissioner,” bronze, San Francisco, CA
The Heritage Museum Fillmore Jazz Center, “Bust of James Jefferson,” bronze, San Francisco, CA
St. Luke’s Hospital, “A Family,” cast glass, Cedar Rapids, IA
“Going Nowhere,” bronze, Atlanta, GA
Charles Eizen Associates, “Three Divers,” suspended sculpture, Denver, CO
D.C. Douglas Interiors, site-specific sculpture, mixed media, Danville, CA
Sheraton Palace Hotel, environmental sculpture, San Francisco, CA
Emerging Markets Investments, lobby sculpture, commissioned by Van Agtmael Interiors, Bethesda, MA
Sushi-Ko Restaurant, site-specific sculpture, Washington, DC
Selected Publications
Books:
2008 The Artful Home, Toni Sikes, Lark Books
2001 Object Lessons, Guild Publishing
1998 More Than Clay, The Toki Collection of Ceramics
1997 Make It In Clay, Charlotte F. Speight & John Toki, Mayfield Publishing Co.
Newspapers & Magazines
The New York Times
House Beautiful
International Entertaining Magazine
Home and Garden
Los Angeles Times
Washington Post
Oakland Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Examiner’s Image Magazine, feature
Education
Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, BA in Art History
Betzael School of Art, Jerusalem, studied sculpture
Stanford University, studied ceramics
UC Berkeley, studied raku
