"An artist's life is what makes 
his aesthetic at that moment."

Artist

MA - Sculpture, San Francisco State University
BA - Art, San Francisco State University
AA - Music, College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA

     
Instructor - Ceramics 
     Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
     Sausalito Art Center, Sausalito, CA
     Cubberley Adult School, Palo Alto, CA
     Parks and Recreation, Pacifica, CA     


Director - Instructor
     Sausalito Art Center, Sausalito, CA

     
Instructor - Music 
     Bennett Valley School District, Santa Rosa, CA
     Private Instruction, Lodi, CA

Duane Ewing is an accomplished artist with a unique and sometimes irreverent style. His three-dimensional works and intricate improvisational ink drawings explore themes of the connections between life, nature and the universe; the relationship of time and timelessness; and personal movement on the spiral to perfection. They range from whimsical to mystical, reflecting his willingness to break the rules and venture a little further.

Duane earned a Master's Degree in art from San Francisco State University and began his professional career as a ceramics sculptor. He also taught ceramics at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California and in Palo Alto and Sausalito, California. He has lived in Latin America and has traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East, absorbing rich and diverse cultural influences and ideas. He currently lives near Sedona, Arizona, where the beauty and variety of the Southwestern landscape serves as inspiration as well.

Duane has garnered numerous awards and recognition in national publications for his ceramic sculptures. He has shown at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and major galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and at galleries throughout Northern California. He also has had one-person shows in San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Guerneville, and Walnut Creek, California. His work is in the permanent collection of The Oakland Museum as well as in many private collections. He has been represented by galleries including the Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco and New York, Ames Gallery, Berkeley, California and Lester Gallery, Inverness, California. Currently his work can be seen at Stone Creations, Sedona, Arizona and The Dreamscape Gallery in Jerome, Arizona.

Duane is also a talented and versatile musician, playing modern jazz, blues, swing and Dixieland jazz on saxophone, clarinet and flute. He has played with well-known big bands; led his own jazz quartet; been a member of several modern jazz trios and quartets as well as traditional Dixieland jazz bands; backed performers such as Cab Calloway, Steve Allen and Carol Channing; performed as a freelance musician in major musicals; played rock, country and blues; toured with a New Age jazz band; entertained with a Dixieland band in Britain. In addition, he has played on a number of commercially available recordings.

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