Charles Wildbank

Charles Bourke Wildbank, is an American artist, painter, photographer and poet, born (December 30, 1948) and living in New York.

Charles Bourke Wildbank, native New York artist delved into photorealism while at Pratt Institute, created a sensation on Fifth Avenue with a giant sparkling rendering of the famed Cartier diamond, and has painted portraits of David Hockney and the late Luciano Pavarotti. He is well known for his versatility of a wide range of figurative themes including florals, still life, portraits and seascapes.

His latest achievements include two 18-foot-high murals commissioned by the Cunard Line for the new luxury ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2. Wildbank is listed with some of his works in "Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary" book by Deborah Sonnenstrahl . He has conducted workshops at Poppi in Italy during fall of 2002 and Giverny in France during spring of 2006. To view Wildbank's complete records, please check his chronology page link.

Up to present day, observable form and vivid color have long been attributed to Wildbank's art. His recent works appear to flirt with the abstract and the surreal christened as his HADO series.

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1969 Art Fellowship at Yale University School of Music and Art

1970 B.F.A. Cum Laude, Pratt Institute, New York

1972 M.A. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

1972-78 Teacher in Special Education in Montreal and New York

1979 First Art Exhibit in windows of Bonwit Teller on Fifth Avenue
Collaboration portrait of Artist David Hockney using polaroid camera and painting on canvas
Art Exhibit, Country Art Gallery, Locust Valley, New York

1982 Art Exhibit, Palmer Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Exhibit, Works Art Gallery, Westhampton Beach, New York
Art Exhibit, Art and Fashion Show, San Francisco, CA
Art Expo, Impress Graphics, New York
Art Exhibit, US Consulate General, Martinique, FWI
Art Exhibit, American Colony Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel

1983 Art Exhibit, Cartier, Fifth Avenue, New York

1983-85 Free Lance Science Fiction Illustrator

1986 Art Exhibit, Bonwit Teller, Beverly Hills, CA
Portrait of Luciano Pavarotti
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