Donna Weiser

Our lives are too short to focus and to draw conclusions: we stand so close to the event of our existence that our reason is blurred and we cannot savor the moment. We are “a footprint in the sands of time, “ measured minute by minute instead of by centuries. But in art, the products born in such haste still have a chance to survive the reporting of their birth and to effect a future reaction - the train stands still and the scenery moves.

Those who use their hands to create, live in God’s view. They test the moment with their actions and are willing to be accountable. If creators do not climb up, but stay on a lower level shadowed by higher purposes, they would be safe from scrutiny. But we climb and create our destiny and thus pay the cost revealed by brightness. We can be seen because we see. 

“Che vaga pur a fonda le stelle I’firmamento. Me vogio esse eterno.” 

“Let the star and the firmament sink….I want to be eternal.”

Studied at:
Northwestern University, Illinois; U.C.L.A. Extension, Los Angeles; University of Judaism,
Los Angeles; Otis/Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles; Valley College, Los Angeles

Studied with:
Bruno Lucchesi, Pietrasanta, Italy

Exhibited at:
• Beverly Hills Affair In The Garden, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1999.
• Loveland Sculpture In The Park, 1991-1993, 1995-2013.
• Loveland Invitational Sculpture 1994
• San Bernardino Museum of Art (awarded), 1977 & 1992
• Saks Fifth Avenue - Beverly Hills, California one-woman show
• KCET-TV
• The Garden, Beverly Hills, California
• Denada - Chicago, Illinois
• Bader/Melnick Gallery - Vail, Beaver Creek
• Newport Art Festival 1994 (Best Sculptor Award)
• Brennen Gallery - Palm Desert - Scottsdale
• Allied Artists of America - New York 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998
  (Associate Members Award of Merit 1994)
• 14 sculptures in the public garden at Jewish Home for the Aging, Reseda, California
• Sotheby's-Beverly Hills
• University of Connecticut 1995
• Public works registered by the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
• Member of National Arts Club, New York
• Art and the Athlete; Millard Sheets Gallery, State Fairgrounds, Pomona, CA 1996, 2002
• Shown on CBS "Cybill" show; 1996
• Work appears in book by Rachel Epstein, Mailbox U.S.A., published by Gibbs Smith, October 1996
• Created annual achievement award "Icon" for a UCLA Center on Aging
• National Sculpture Society, New York, 1997 Showing
• Featured in January 1998 issue of Sunset Magazine
• McLean Gallery, Malibu, California, Private Shows 1999, 2000 and 2001
• Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Show, National Art Club, New York City 1998
• Jones & Terwilliger Fine Art Gallery, Carmel, California 1999
• Pen and Brush 53rd Sculpture Show, New York City 1999
• Bronze Plaque Flo-Jo Award, "Wings" San Gabriel YWCA 15th Celebrity Classic 1999
• California Art Club, member: 2001, 2006 Club showing at Historic Museum, Pasadena
• Ft. Worth "Sculpture Along the Trinity" show, 2001
• Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
• Tau Alpha Epsilon Honor Fraternity
• Sculpture for Sinai Temple Wall of Remembrance, Westwood, California
• Maquette and life-size sculpture at Kaufman Brentwood Library, Los Angeles
• 3 works presented on Los Angeles County Art Museum Art and Architectural Tour
• Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, Wisconsin
• Selected Drawing for the Santa Monica College Emeritus Juried Art Show 2013

Private Collections:
Arthur Andersen - L.A., Westwood, Costa Mesa, Hawaii; Eugene Ionesco; Sybil Brand; Cedars-Sinai; Russell Reynolds, Hawaii, Santa Ana; Senator Herbert H. Kohl Foundation; Kathie Lee Gifford; Michael Jackson; Bernie Brillstein; Jewish Home

Monumental Art:
Goldrich Kest IV Seasons, Beverly Hills; Life-size "Dancing With the Torah", B'Nai Torah Synagogue, Boca Raton, 2001; Life-size "The Boys Club" Vista Del Mar Children's Home, West Los Angeles; Wall mounted 6 X 9 bas-relief for UCLA Glorya Kaufman School of Dance

Guest Lecturer: L.A. Museum of Art, U.C.L.A.