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David Simpson

(American, born 1928)

David Simpson

Pink Labor (#5/82), 1982

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David Simpson

Little Valencia (#12/79), 1979

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David Simpson

Intra Muros, 1983

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David Simpson

Study...#8/80 4 Square #8, 1980

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Biography

Timeline

1928: Born in Pasadena, California, USA
1956: Received BFA from the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
1958: Received MFA from the San Francisco State College, San Francisco, California, USA
: Lives and works in Berkeley, California, USA

Exhibitions

2018: Spotlight: David Simpson, Haines Gallery, Frieze New York (solo)
: In the Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets and Visionaires of the SS Vallejo, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma
2017: Continuum Art-as-Art, The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos
: David Simpson: Heaven and Hell, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe
: Fifty Years of Painting, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
: Radical: Monochrome Paintings from the Duffy Collection, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco
: True to Light, Geukens Devil Gallery, Knokke
: David Simpson – Wall toys for adults, Studio la Città, Verona (solo)
2016: Then and Now, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe
: Now and Then, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
2015: David Simpson, Geukens Devil Gallery, Antwerpen
2014: Hommage à David Simpson, Parisian Laundry, Montreal
: Heaven and Earth: Interference Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe
2013: David Simpson, Art Museum of University of Wyoming, Laramie
: David Simpson – Solo show, Studio la Città, Verona
2012: David Simpson, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston
: David Simpson: Paintings, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
: Nonsense Poems, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
2011: Interference Paintings 2002-2010, a cura di/curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Giacomo Guidi arte Contemporanea, Roma
2010: Interference Blues, Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
2009: IN – FINITUM, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
: David Simpson: Paintings & Works on Paper, Modernism, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Other Voices, Other Rooms, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2008: West Coast Abstraction: Selected Works from 1975-2007, Part 1, MODERNISM, San Francisco, CA
: David Simpson, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy (solo)
: Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (solo)
2007 - 2008: Light Wells +, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
2007: Light Wells, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Interference Paintings, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, Texas, USA (solo)
: The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA (cat.)
: di capo!, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
: Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
: Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
: West Coast Abstraction, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
: Fundamental Abstraction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
: Extreme Interference, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
2006: Director’s Choice, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005: Recent Paintings, Galleria G7, Bologna, Italy
: Je ne regrette rien, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
: Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
: An Inner Glow-Color as Painting, Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle, Lingen
: Iridescent Interference, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, Texas, USA (solo)
: Surrealist Landscapes and Other Departures, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Inneres Leuchten-Farbe als Malerei, Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle, Lingen, Germany
2004: Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA
: ‘Metallics’, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Lucidamente, a cura di/curated by G. Bonomi, Fortezza Isola Palmaria, Porto Venere
: Per Amore, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa
: Works on Paper-Surrealist Landscapes and Other Departures, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
: Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
: Interference Paintings, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
2003: Haines Gallery, San Francisco
: RealUNreal, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
2002: Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
: Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne (solo)
: Artothek, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: The Perception of Space, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, Italy
: Le stanze dell’arte, curated by Gabriella Belli, MART MART Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
: Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (solo)
2001: Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Nebeneinander III (Painting Today - Overseas and Here), Galerie Renate Schröder, Cologne, Germany (cat.)
: Artisti americani ed europei dalla collezione Panza, Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo, Italy
: Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy (solo)
: ‘Neue Bilder’, Renate Schroeder Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: ‘Paintings of the 70s and 80s, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
: Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2000: University Art Museum, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA (solo)
1999: Sonora Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California, USA (solo)
: Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Beun Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA (cat.)
1998: La collezione Panza di Biumo: artisti degli anni '80 - '90, Museo del Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy (cat.)
1997: Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
: Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (solo)
: Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Colección Panza di Biumo Anys 80 i 90, La Llonja, Palma de Majorca,Spain (cat.)
: Haines Gallery, New York, New York, USA
: Collezione Panza di Biumo, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy (cat.)
: L'Arena di Verona, Tante pitture nessuna memoria, G. Trevisan, Luglio 11
1996: The Panza di Biumo Collection, MART Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
: E la chiamano pittura…, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (cat.)
1995: Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
: Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (solo)
: Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, USA (solo)
: A California Collection, Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, California, USA
: The Panza di Biumo Donation: European and American Art '83-'93, Museo Cantonale d'arte, Lugano, Switzerland (brochure)
1994: Angles Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo)
: John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Abstraction in the Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
: Cultural Fabrication, John Good Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1992: Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo)
: Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Bemis Foundation, Omaha, Nebraska, USA (solo)
1991: Abstract Painting, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
: Zen Center Hospice, San Francisco, California, USA
: Jeff Beall/David Simpson, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
: Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA (solo)
1990: Bay Area Artists, A to Z, Butler Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
: Lyrical Vision: the 6 Gallery 1954-57, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, California, USA (cat.)
: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA (solo)
: Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1989: The Dark Sublime: Art at the End of Our Century, Scott Allan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
: Paint, Mincher/Wilkox Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
: Order and Intuition: Aspects of Bay Area Abstract Painting, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California, USA
: Abstract Paintings, Modernism, San Francisco, California, USA
: Works on Paper, Modernism, San Francisco, California, USA
: Art and Architecture, Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, California, USA
: Abstract Painting, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
: Paintings Without Pictures, Suite 309, San Francisco, California, USA
1988: Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1987: Faculty Drawing Exhibition, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University Gallery, Berkeley, California, USA
: 3 Abstract Artists, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1986: Classical Abstraction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California, USA
: White Rabbit Symposium and Jack Spicer Conference, Intersection Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
: Geometric Abstraction in America, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
: Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1984: Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1983: America River Art College, Sacramento, California, USA (solo)
1982: Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1980: Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, California, USA (solo)
1979: Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1978: Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, USA (solo)
1974: St. Mary's College Art Gallery, Moraga, California, USA (solo)
1973: Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California, USA (solo)
1972: Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Hank Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo)
1971: Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1969: Van der Voort Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1968: Henri Gallery, Washington DC, USA (solo)
: David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo)
1967: San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1966: David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo)
: Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA (solo)
1965: Richmond Art Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA (solo)
: Hack Light Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (solo)
1964: Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo)
: David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo)
1963: Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo)
1962: Paul Joachim Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
: David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1961: De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo)
1960: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA (solo)
: David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1959: San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1958: San Francisco Art Association Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)

Literature

1996: L'Arena di Verona, "Tante pitture nessuna memoria", G. Trevisan, Luglio 11
1992: Artnews, K. Baker, April
: San Francisco Chronicle, "David Simpson's Layered Beauties", K. Baker, January 18
: Omaha World Herald, "Simpson's Art is All About Color, Texture", K. MacMillan, January 3
1991: Artspace, "Four Bay Area Abstract Painters", M. Levy, January/February
: San Francisco Chronicle, "Simpson's Tricky Monochromes", K. Baker, April 20
: Calendar, Laguna Art Museum, March/April
: Artweek, "The Gang of 6", A.W. Lee, January 25
: San Francisco Chronicle, "Galleries", K. Baker, March 17
: San Francisco Examiner, "Textures and Reductionism", D. Bonetti, March 21
: Nebraska Sunday World-Herald, "Contemporary Artists in Sheldon Spotlight", K. MacMillan, June 17
: Artnews, "The Last Bohemia", K. Baker, May/June
: Artspace, "Adrift in Sensation", K. Baker, May/June
: San Jose Mercury News, "Generations of Abstractions", D. Burkhart, January 20
: D. Michos, A Legacy of Abstraction, “Artweek”, February
: J. Brunson, Northern California, “Visions”, Spring
: K. Baker, Galleries: Abstract with Depth, Complexity, “San Francisco Chronicle”, September 21
: D. Bonetti, Art, “San Francisco Examiner”, September 22
1989: R. Atkins, “New York, 7 Days”, October 18
1988: M. Levy, California Contemporary Art, “Art & Antiques”, October/November
: N. Steele, Artbeat, “Benicia Herald”, September 30
: K. Baker, Display of Paintings, Not Pictures, in SF, “San Francisco Chronicle”, September 19
: M. Van Proyen, Familiar Conventions Revitalized, “Artweek”, February 27
1986: C. Shere, Two Contrasting Art Shows Find Balance in a Third, “Artweek”, October 4
: “Oakland Tribune”, September 9

David Simpson

(American, born 1928)

David Simpson

David Simpson

David Simpson

David Simpson

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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