David Getz

I was born in 1940 and grew up in Brooklyn. I studied at Cooper Union in NYC, Skowhegan in Maine and got an MFA at San Francisco Art Institute in 1964. I won a Fulbright Fellowship and lived in Crakow, Poland for a year. I taught painting at the SFAI from 1965 to 1966.

I have also been a professional musician since I was 15 and in March of 1966 I joined the rock and roll band Big Brother & The Holding Co. From then until 1979 I played music, recorded and toured all over the world with many different musical artists.

In 1979 I returned to visual art, mostly printmaking but since then I have worked in many different media.

For the last 42 years my work has evolved and that evolution has moved through different styles, media and directions: abstraction, realism, illusionism geometry, pop imagery, found objects, mixed media, etc. I consider myself lucky to have had the freedom to explore and have not felt the need or the desire to establish a mono-fixation or the commercial pressure to repeat myself; yet it is apparent that through all the changes what I have created and continue to create is informed by a particular sensibility, a feeling for rhythm and a way of seeing the world.

In the past few years I have found ...

I studied art at Cooper Union in New York City and Skowhegan Art School in Maine with Alex Katz and Henry Varnum Poor. I studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bishoff, Frank Lobdell and many giants of West Coast Art. I earned a Master of Fine Art from SFAI and won a Fulbright Fellowship in painting. I lived in Crakow, Poland for one year and studied with Jonasz Stern. I taught painting at San Francisco Art Institute 1965-66. I learned the process of screen printing in Los Angeles from Evelyn Johnson in 1979-1980. I was represented by the Ruth Bachofner Gallery, and DeVorzon galleries in LA and the Miriam Perlman Gallery in Chicago and several other galleries and art consulting companies. I have my work in about 15 corporate collections as well as private collections internationally. I studied education at Sonoma State University 1991-993. I am also a professional rock and jazz musician and I have performed and recorded with numerous artists, most notably Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and the Fish, It's a Beautiful Day, Jose Neto, Bruce Langhorne, Bob Dorough and others

May 2013 "Dave Getz, Paper Inlay Pieces" 1980-87, Fairfax Ca,

June 2013,"Drawing' Juried show,(Donna Seager) Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, C

Artworks Downtown. Founder's Gallery 2016, Solo show

Fairfax Library 2017, Just Shoes solo exhibition

Sonoma State University Art Gallery " Art From the Heart" 2018