Biography
David Sybe Bakker
1721 Lakeside Ave Baltimore MD, 21218
Phone-(410) IMPACT-(zero)
Freelance Experience:
- American Advertising Magazine- cover
- Anne Klein- sets for photo ad campaign
- Baltimore Sun Paper- illustration
- Custom Model Railroads- detailed model building
- Dow Chemical- set and stunts for photo ad campaign
- Longevity Magazine- prop for photo ad campaign
- Kohler Co.- set for photo ad campaign
- Molson Golden Ale- props and sets for photo ad campaign
- Maryland Science Center- Educational dollhouse display
- New York Times Magazine- set for fashion editorial
- Maryland State Employees Credit Union- newsletter cover
- Universal Studios-model maker
- Washington Office Magazine - covers for Dec. '94 and Jan. '95 issuesv
- Wired Magazine - prop for illustration photo
Education:
- 1991 MFA Rinehart School of Sculpture
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore MD
- 1981 BFA General fine Arts (cum laude)
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore MD
- 1978 AA Fine Arts
Montgomery College, Rockville MD
Awards and Grants:
- 1992 Artist's Fellowship, Maryland State Arts Council
- 1988 Artist's Fellowship, Maryland State Arts Council
- 1986 Works in Progress, Maryland State Arts Council
and a Baltimore City Arts Grant
Teaching Experience:
- Instructor, Harford Community College
- Artist in residence, Mcdonough High School, Baltimore, MD
- Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art
- Instructor, Young Artist's Program, Maryland Art Place (MAP)
Additional Skills and Interests:
- Flying (private pilot)
- scuba diving
- spelunking
- rock climbing
- rebuilding antique British motorcycles
Curatorial Experience:
- 2001-2 "Car Show" at Artscape
- 1995 "Actual Size", a show of miniature artwork at Towson State University
- 1994 The first annual "Car Show" at Artscape Ô94
Selected Exhibitions:
- 2000
- "Under Glass," solo exhibition, Halcyon Gallery
Fells Point, Baltimore, MD
- "Improve Yourself," performance with David Crandall
Fells Point Creative Allience
- 1999
- White House
1600 Penn. Ave Wash. DC
MD Historical Society Commission
- Lava Lounge, MAP, curated by Jack Rasmussen
- "Theater of Dreams", George Mason University
Curated by Kirby Malone
- 1998
- Rosenburg Gallery, Goucher College
Curated Helen Glazer
- Artscape Ô98 Car Show
- UMBC Kuhn Gallery, 22 Dollhouses
curated Gary Kachadorian
- 1997
- Metropol Gallery, 1713 N. Chas. St. Baltimore MD
- 1996
- "Sanity Clause", Halcyon Gallery, Fells Point, Baltimore
- "Off the Wall", Artscape '96
- "Alumni Show" Montgomery Community College
- 1995
- "Day of the Dead", Folk Art Gallery, 1500 Bolton St., Baltimore MD
- "Demons, Addictions & Other Vices", Artscape Ô95
- "Second Annual Car Show", Artscape Ô95
- Metropol Gallery, 1713 N. Chas. St. Baltimore MD
- "Staff Show", Maryland Institute College of Art
- 1993
- Metropol Gallery, 1713 N. Chas. St. Baltimore MD
- Rinehart Alumni Show, Washington Square Connecticut Ave, Wash. DC.
- 1992
- Mitchell Baker Gallerie, N. Chas. St. Baltimore MD
- "Humor as a subversive act", Artscape '92 curated: Peter Walsh
- "Evoking Origins", Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (DCCA)
- 1991
- "Wall of Dignity" billboard collaboration with Joe Lewis,
1700 block Greenmount Ave, Baltimore MD
- MFA Thesis exhibition, Maryland Institute of Art
- 1990
- Artscape '90, Graphic Symbols for "These Monumental Times", w/ Joe Lewis
- "First year MFA" group show MFA candidates Maryland Institute of Art
- 1989
- "The Ghost in the Machine", Artscape installation show, curated Kirby Malone
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- Collecting, Organizing, and Transposing" Traveling exhibition,
curated: Olivia Georgia
- "Artefax" invitational collaborative work shown at the Universidad Autonoma Metro-politana, Azcapotzalco, Mexico
- 1988
- "Obsessive Objects" School 33, 1427 Light St., Baltimore MD 21230
- "Assume the Position" Center Stage, directed by Nancy O. Reilly
- Installation using 12,500 Tyco blocks, sponsored by the Tyco Corporation
- Artscape '88, juried art fair juror: Eric Fischl
- 1987
- Collaboration with Fritz Wieland, performed at the Baltimore Museum
- "Rooms with Views" curated: Kevin Labdie, the Lyric Opera House, Balt. MD
- 1986
- "Environs" Baumgartner Galleries 2016 R St., Washington DC
- "Objects & Installations" curated: Phyllis Rosenzweig, M.A.P.
- "Artscape '86", juried art fair
- 1985
- Maryland Biennial, curated: Gracie Mansion, Baltimore Museum of Art
- 1984
- "Artscape '84", juried art fair
- "Eye Find" curated: Leonard Stricfus Kuhn Gallery, U.M.B.C.
- 1982
- "Artscape '82", juried art fair
- "White Paper", Librije Hedendaagse Kunst, Zwolle, Netherlands
- Installation at the New York School for the Arts, New York, NY
- 1981
- Alumni Exhibition, Montgomery College, Takoma Park Campus

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