Art Resume -- Mel Zaid, Sculptor, Photographer, Engineer   Engineering Advanced degrees -- Stanford U. & Massachusetts. Institute of Technology(MIT) Extensive practice, patents, and publications in Engineering and Mathematics Education as Sculptor ....Since 1967 New School -- New York City -- Life modeling/Techniques ( Gross, Lucchessi, Simons..) Nausset School of Sculpture -- Cape Cod -- Modeling/Techniques Mass College of Art -- Boston -- Techniques/Foundry practice Florida U.-- Boca Raton -- Ceramics Perma Flex Corp. -- Columbus, Oh.-- Mold making, private instruction Various Foundries -- Paul King/Sculptor's West Coast/S.B.C.C,/etc. -- techniques Self instruction-- Numerous workshops, extensive readings, experimentation Shows, Commissions, Studios, Experience .... Since 1967 Boston Center of Arts Gallery Boston City Hall Gallery M.I.T Arch. Library -- 2 person show with "Kena" -- New Mexico Missions Masks for "Go-Go"-- for Go-Go's one person show -- Boston Industrial Photography commissions-- various Boston Center for Arts -- Lectures -- Works in Progress Studios @ M.I.T. & Boston Center for Arts-- Resident Sculptor Adjunct Associate Professor of Art-- Univ. of Mass., Amherst, MA. Art/Life Gallery Shows, since 1981-- various -- Sculpture and drawings -- Santa Barbara, CA. Arlington Gallery-- Santa Barbara, CA. 1982 Century Gallery-- "Six by Six", Sculpture invitational 1983, L.A. County Sculpture in the Park-- Peter Strauss Ranch, Agoura Hills, CA, 1983,1984 Peter Strauss Ranch-- Sculpture on long term loan, 1983,1984, Agoura Hills, CA. Landau Gallery-- Various group and 2 person shows, since 1983, Los Angeles, CA. Creative Galleries-- Group show, Los Angeles, CA. 1983 The New Gallery-- Principal Sculptor & Group shows, 1985 thru 1987, Santa Barbara, CA. Art Works Gallery -- Group Shows, 1989 thru 1991, Santa Barbara, CA Merging One Gallery -- One Person Show, & Group shows. 1986 thru 1988, Santa Monica,CA Cultural Found. Art Space -- Principal Sculptor in show, 1987, Woodland Hills, CA West Coast Sculptors Show -- Group show, 1987, Los Angeles, CA. Visions Gallery -- Principal Sculptor, Group show, 1987, 1988, Ventura, CA. UCSB Art Museum -- Traveling Exh., "Seeing without eyes" 1990 thru 1993, including 13 Art museums & Cultural centers in W & NW USA Carnegie Museum -- UCSB Group show, Oxnard, CA. Fullerton Museum Center -- UCSB Group show, Fullerton, CA Tokyo Museum Exhibition -- "God" book, Group show, 1990, Tokyo, Japan Franklin Furnace -- 10th Anniversary Art/Life Cover plus group show, 1990, New York City Reynolds Gallery -- Art/Life group show, 1990, Westmont, CA. CAF Gallery -- Art/Life group show, 1992/1993, Santa Barbara, CA Relay Fax -- Originator, organizer & contributor, World wide ,1990 Momentum Gallery -- Art/Life group show, 1990, Ventura, CA Sculpture Santa Barbara 1990 -- Originator, organizer & contributor, Santa Barbara, CA Gallery of Functional Art -- Group shows, 1989 -1990, Santa Monica, CA 4th International Contemporary Art Fair -- 1989, Los Angeles, CA. Celebrity Outreach Exhibition -- 1992, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, CA Pasadena Gold Co. -- 2 Person show, 1993, Pasadena CA Art Soup Gallery -- Group show, Mask as alter ego, 1995 Santa Barbara, CA. Digital Sound Corp. -- Group show, 1995, Santa Barbara, CA. Cutter Motors -- Group show, 1995, 1996, Santa Barbara, CA Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum -- 1996, 1997, Santa Barbara, CA San Ysidro Ranch -- One person -- outdoor sculpture, 1996, 1997, Santa Barbara,CA Art at the JCC - Eclectic to Electric -- 2000, Santa Barbara, CA Svit Ozor Fine Arts -- 2001, 2002, Santa Barbara, CA. Maienza Wilson Gallery -- 2002 -2004, Santa Barbara, CA. Multispace Gallery -- Representation and showing, 1997 and onward, Santa Barbara, CA. Publication Regular Contributor to Art/Life Publ., since 1981 -- Typewriter drawings, Relay fax, Covers Art/Works -- Contributor, 1990, Tokyo, Japan Concrete International -- "Concrete Places First for Engineer-Turned Sculptor" Art Nurnberg 6/Art Fair International 91 -- Nurnberg, Germany Interiors -- "Beyond the Labels", August 1989 Art Gallery International -- "Mel Zaid", Cover "Ventura County National Bancorp Annual Report" -- Ventura, CA. Cover "Perspectives on Personality" -- Simon & Schuster/Allyn and Bacon multi space -- book, limited edition GOD --Book, Exhibited in Japan, USA various Museums and galleries 1st YMCA Mens Locker Room Cook Book -- book, limited edition Covers 3-D -- ArtLife Publ.-- Various limited editions - collected in Museums incl Getty, Fogg, etc. Cover 3-D --ArtLife Publ.-- proposed - 25 yr anniversary edition - available in diptych presentation Current Work Directions New materials and techniques in Sculpture Word forms Truss form sculpture Multi-space concepts and Sculptural language development SciTec - Left brained Art - concepts and language development Copyright © 2000, 2006 multi-spaceFmind < back