David Ligare (American, born )

Timeline

1945
Born, Oak Park, IL
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2013
River/Mountain/Sea, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA & Montery Museum Of Art, Monterey, CA (solo)
2013
Duets: Art in Conversation, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
2012
Summer Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2012
Sublime: Nature, Science and Beauty in Contemporary Art, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2012
David Ligare: New Paintings, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY (solo)
2012
Big Sur: Paintings by David Ligare, Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA (solo)
2011
Masterworks: The Best of Hirschl & Adler, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
2010
REDUX, Plus One Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2010
Wine and Spirit: Rituals,Remedies and Revelry, Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, S. Hadley, MA
2010
Tomorrow's Legacies, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2010
Real & HyperReal, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2010
Take Five, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2009
American Concepts and Global Visions/Selections from the AT&T Collection, McNay Museum, San Antonio,
2009
Primary Structures, Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, CA (solo)
2009
American Concepts and Global Visions/Selections from the AT&T Collection, McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX
2008
The West Coast Ten, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2008
Contemporary Still Lifes, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2008
A Sense of Place: An Homage to Robinson Jeffers, Winfield Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA (solo)
2008
Per Amore: La raccolta Caggiano Palazzo Incontro, Rome, Italy
2007
Aparchai, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2007
Representation, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and New York, NY
2007
Dreamland: American Explorations into Surrealism, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2006
Beyond the Likeness: Self-Portraits by California Artists, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2006
Intimate Landscape, Winfield Gallery , Carmel, and Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
2006
Ritual Offerings, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2005
Offerings: A New History, Plus One Gallery, London, England (solo)
2005
Contemporary Drawing as Preparation, The Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art, curated by
2005
Prof. Ronald E. Steen and The Maine Project, Los Angeles, CA
2004
California New Old Masters, Gallery C, curated by Donald Kuspit, Hermosa Beach, CA
2003
Sea Paintings, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA (also 2000, 98, 94, 92, 88, 86, 85, 83) (solo)
2002
Viewpoint: The Pastures of Heaven, National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA (solo)
2002
Objects of Intention: Still Life Paintings, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2002
Artists of the Ideal: Nuovo Classicismo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Verona, Italy (catalog)
2002
Artists of the Ideal: Nuovo Classicismo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Verona, Italy (catalogue)
2001
Collecting Our Thoughts, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2000
Still Lifes from Hackett-Freedman Gallery, Spanierman Gallery, New York, NY
2000
A Noble Tradition Revisited: The Contemporary American Still Life, Spanierman Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition, Philbrook Museum of Art,Tulsa, OK (traveling exhibition with catalog)
1999
Paintings from the Pastures of Heaven, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1998
The Classical Impulse, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (solo)
1998
L'eta dell'Oro, Galleria Il Polittico, Rome, Italy (solo)
1998
Re-Presenting Representation IV , Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
1998
Gold Rush to Pop: 200 Years of California Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1998
A Feast for the Eye: Food in Art, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1998
Realism Knows No Bounds, Van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1998
Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Contempo-Italianate: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Italy, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1997
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
Toward the Millenium: Contemporary Paintings from Northern California, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1997
Re-presenting Representation III, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
1997
Back into the Future, The Kitchen, New York, NY
1997
Dramatic Realism: The New Baroque, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1997
Still Life Paintings, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1996
Ponte Vecchio/Torre Nova, A Project by David Ligare, The Prince of Wales' Institute of Architecture, London, England (solo)
1996
Landscape and Language: Paintings by David Ligare, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (solo)
1996
Classicism in the 20th Century, Lizan-Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1996
Still Lifes, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996
Inaugural Exhibition, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Landscape: The Continuum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Still Lifes, Stiebel Modern, New York, NY (also 1993) (solo)
1995
Stages for Contemplation, Fresno Museum, Fresno, CA (solo)
1994
Parallax Views, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994
Slice of Life: Contemporary Still Lifes, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1994
Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA (solo)
1993
Stiebel Modern, New York, NY (solo)
1993
Drawings III, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Still Life, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1992
American Realism & Figurative Art 1955–1990, (traveling museum exhibition in Japan),
1992
Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA (solo)
1991
Drawings, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991
Only Drawings, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1990
Architecturally Inspired, Long & Ryle Gallery, London, England
1990
Regarding Art: Art Works About Art, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1990
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1988
Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA (solo)
1988
Classical Figures, Simms Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
1988
Life Stories, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1988
Reveal: New Work by Gallery Artists, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987
Modern Myths, Boise Art Gallery, Boise, ID (traveling exhibition with catalog)
1987
The Artist and the Myth, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1987
Parola/Italia, Galleria Appollodoro, Rome, Italy (catalog)
1987
The Anatomy of Drawing, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
1987
Contemporary Humanism, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA (catalogue)
1986
Drawing: A Classical Continuum, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986
Uncovering the Past: Tribute & Parody, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1986
Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1986
Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA (solo)
1985
Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA (solo)
1985
The Classical Tradition in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)
1985
Beyond Antiquity: Classical References in Contemporary Art, DeCordova and Dana Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
1985
American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SanFrancisco, CA
1984
Collector's Gallery XVIII, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
1984
Contemporary Classicism, California State University, Fullerton, CA (catalogue)
1984
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
1983
Hall Galleries, Dallas, TX (solo)
1983
A Heritage Renewed: Representational Drawing Today, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue)
1983
West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (traveling exhibition with catalogue)
1983
Realistic Directions, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, PA
1982
Modern American Painting, National Pinakothiki, Athens, Greece (organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, catalogue)
1978
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY (also 1973) (solo)
1977
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (solo)
1970
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (solo)

Public Collections

Exxon-Mobil Corporation, Fairfax, VA
The de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Princess Cruise Lines
Atlantic-Richfield Corporation
Security Pacific Collection
Hughes Corporation
Pacific Telesis
Syracuse University Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CN
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi (The Department of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizi), Florence, Italy
M.H. De young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
The Museum of Art & Archeology, University of Missouri at Columbia
English (US)

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