Michael david sorensen biography of william

  • Michael David Sorensen paints scenes from the Pacific Northwest and around the world, with a flair of imagination and vibrant color.
  • I started this painting in high school and didn't know where to go from here, so I put it on a shelf for 20+ years.
  • Born in Vancouver in 1937, Sorensen first studied architecture with Arthur Erickson and then returned to study at the Vancouver School of Art.

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    BIOGRAPHY

    DAVID SORENSEN: 2010

    (David Sorensen, May 1974 - Photograph by Gabor Szilasi)

    Sorensen’s education in Art was at once formal and serendipitous; he studied Arts and Science at the University of British Columbia for two years then entering the School of Architecture under Arthur Ericson. Completing first year, then working as an office draftsman for the summer in Vancouver, he set off in 1959 for the Brussels’ World Fair.

    For a year he traveled throughout Europe in a Volkswagen filling sketchpads through the Scandinavian countries, Berlin, Paris, the Loire valley, south through Spain, Italy, Greece and finally to Istanbul. Within a classical backdrop Sorensen saw the big American Abstract Expressionist breakthrough show in Paris, and discovered Mark Rothko among deKooning, Pollock, Kline and the other cutting edge American artists.

    Returning to Vancouver he entered the Vancouver School of Art with Jack Harman and Jack Shadbolt and in th

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    Melendez, David, “La linea vuelta horizonte”, PUBLICO, April 2009
    “Todo Queda En Abstracto”, (Fotos: Charlie Uribe) Ocio – Publico Milenio (Guadalajara), Friday, February 15, 2008
    Karla Banuelos Saenz: “La abstraccion flota en la Haus der Kunst”, (Fotos: Charlie Uribe) Publico (Guadalajara), Saturday, February 2, 2008
    David y Verona Sorensen, en Haus der Kunst “Recuerdos y horizontes en luz y sombra”, (Fotos: R. Rosales/ A. Muniz) El Informador (Guadalajara), Saturday, February 2, 2008
    Alejandro Alvarado: “Abstraen al Haus” Ocho Colomnus (Guadalajara), Saturday, February 2, 2008
    Henry Lehman: “Expo 67’s sculptors, then and now” TheGazette (Montreal), Sat., August 4, 2007
    Eissa Barnard: “Artists in Search of Order: Sorensen/ Hong” The Chronicle Herald (Halifax), Friday, November 3, 2006
    Guillaume Sirois: “Architecte Plasticien” Vie des Arts, No. 199, Summer 2005
    John K. Grande: “Mexique, David Sorensen: Horizon Series” Vie des Arts, No. 196, Automne 2004
    Elaine Halleck

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    David G. Sorensen

    Canadian artist (1937-2011)

    David G. Sorensen

    Born(1937-05-20)May 20, 1937

    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    DiedFebruary 17, 2011(2011-02-17) (aged 73)

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    NationalityCanadian
    Occupationartist
    SpouseBella

    David SorensenRCA (May 20, 1937 – February 17, 2011) was a Canadian artist.[1]

    Career

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    Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Sorensen studied at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur Erickson (architecture), Bill Reid (sculpture) and Jack Shadbolt (painting) and bronze casting in Mexico (introduction to Zuniga's studio)) with a Theo Koerner grant. In 1965 he moved to Montreal, showed sculptures at Expo 67, and started to exhibit his paintings regularly across Canada: Espace Cinq, Gilles Corbeil, Waddington in Montreal; Wallack in Ottawa; Carmen Lamanna and Bau-Xi galleri in Toronto; Bau-Xi in Vancouver. While in Montreal he h