David Row
Since graduating from Yale (MFA’75, BA cum laude ‘72) David Row has pursued his professional career as a painter, living and working in New York City and Casco Bay, Portland, Maine. He has been honored as Scholar of the House in Painting at Yale (1971-1972) and with a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting (1987). He received the Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting from the National Academy Museum, in New York, in May 2008.
Following early shows at alternative and nonprofit spaces such as The Drawing Center (1978 and 1982) and PS 122 (1982), Row began exhibiting in New York in 1986, at John Good Gallery, moved to Andre Emmerich Gallery in the 1990s, and von Lintel Gallery in Chelsea, in the early 2000’s. Internationally, Row has shown at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris and Salzburg), Galerie Ascan Crone (Hamburg), Fujii Gallery (Tokyo), and Galerie Brandstetter & Wyss in Zurich.
Recent solo shows include Loretta Howard Gallery (2014, 2016 and 2018); Locks Gallery in Philadelphia in 2017 and 2021; McClain Gallery in Houston, 2013. His work was included in the survey redux of Conceptual Abstraction, at Hunter College/Times Square Gallery in Fall 2012, with catalog by Pepe Karmel. Row was recently included in the exhibition From Gericault to Rockburne: Selections from the Michael & Juliet Rubenstein Gift, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Met Breuer in 2020.
The Shape of Things, a survey of five decades of shaped paintings from 1976 to the present, is currently on view at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland Maine. This follows One-person museum shows at the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (2000), and travelling to The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, Texas (2001).
His works are in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including The Brooklyn Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, where one of Row’s paintings is exhibited in the entrance lobby. His 20’ mural, Roundtrip, was commissioned by architect Cesar Pelli for the Washington National Airport project, and Ahab’s Dream, a large lobby mural is permanently installed at 2001 M Street in Washington DC.
In 1997, a 128-page illustrated book titled Continuous Model: the Paintings of David Row, by John Zinsser was published by EditionLintel, Munich, Germany. He is also included in Barry Schwabsky’s The Widening Circle (1997), and Joseph Maschek’s Modernities: Art Matters in the Present (1993). A monograph The Shape of Things, will be published in 2021 in celebration of David Row’s survey exhibition at CMCA. Articles about Row’s work have appeared in art publications including: Artforum, Art in America, Art International, Artnews, Art & Auction, Bomb Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and the Washington Post as well as many publications in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Japan.
David Row has lectured and taught at numerous institutions including The Cooper Union, Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, Fordham University and currently at the MFA Fine Arts Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Row has also done extensive printmaking since 1989, producing over 50 editions as well as numerous monotype projects with various publishers and printshops including Two Palms Press, Pace Editions, Tamarind Institute, Oehme Graphics, Brand X and Echo Press. A suite of etchings, Elements, was included in Patterns and Grids at Pace Gallery in New York and chosen in The Second Annual New Prints Review in On Paper Magazine, among the top seventeen projects published in the United States in 2004–2005. Hazards Suite (silkscreen) was published at Two Palms Press in 2018.
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