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David King’s work explores his profound interest in the metaphysical – the underlying or fundamental interconnectedness of things. In his abstract work, it is difficult to determine if the forms are to be read a microcosmic or macrocosmic; are we looking at a cell cluster or a planetary body? His narrative pieces are created to be visually beautiful, intellectually stimulating, and sometimes humorous. All of his collages are constructed in the traditional, cut-and-paste method and have an obsessive attention to detail.
David’s work has been shown in Europe and across the U.S., including venues such as Artist’s Space in New York, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and The Lab in San Francisco. He has been the artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Dump, and at Ucross and Jentel, both in Wyoming. He is also the recipient of an artist’s grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He is currently represented by Hang Art in San Francisco. More information and images of his collages can be found at www.davidkingcollage.com.
David King
PO Box 301, Monte Rio, CA 95462
www.davidkingcollage.com
415-283-6336
Solo Shows
2011 Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco
2010 Magnet Gallery, San Francisco
2009 The San Francisco Dump, San Francisco
2007 The Soap Factory, Minneapolis
2007 The Lab, San Francisco
2007 Ritual, San Francisco
2007 CIIS, San Francisco
2006 Visual Aid Gallery, San Francisco
2003 DAI Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany
1999 Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco (Introductions)
1997 San Francisco Photography Center, San Francisco
Selected Group Shows
2012 Piece by Piece, Hang Art Gallery, San Francisco
2012 Meaning to Glue, Eastern Oregon University, OR
2011 Uncommon Cosmos, Chandra Cerrito Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011 Contemporary Collage, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco
2011 Reclamation: New Trends in Collage, Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA
2011 Collage, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco
2011 Elysium, Visual Aid Gallery, San Francisco
2010 Chronotopia, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco
2009 Metaphysical Abstraction, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA
2009 Regime Change, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009 I Like Winners: Sport and Selfhood, Shepard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV
2008 Painting’s Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2008 The Sparky Show, Romero/Winkelman Gallery Project Space, New York
2007 Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006 K(art)ma, Lille Art Festival, Lille, France
2006 Collage, College of Marin, Marin, CA
2006 Tiny Fine Art Gallery, New York
2006 Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco
2005 Sweet 16, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2004 The RAIN Event, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
2004 Body Commodities, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2004 Rejectamenta, University Gallery, Northampton, England
2003 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York
2003 Postcards from the Edge, Galerie Lelong, New York
2003 Inaugural Show, N-th Art, London
2003 Contemporary Collage, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2002 Staff Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
1998 Cocktail Hour: New Imagery in the AIDS Era, SF Camerawork
1998 Uniforms, Phenomenon Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
Grants
2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2008 Black Rock City Arts Foundation
1997-2011 Visual Aid
Residencies
Jentel Artist Residency Program, Wyoming, May 2012
Ucross Artist Residency Program, Wyoming, April 2012
San Francisco Dump, October 2008 – January 2009
Selected Publications and Reviews
2011 Lahman, Jason, What the Talisman Tells: Meditations on David King’s Latest Collages, Art21 Blog
2009 Huston, Johnny Ray, Round and Round, San Francisco Bay Guardian,
January 21-27
2006 Buckley, Annie, Between Earth and Sky: The Visual Language of David King, A&U Magazine, November, Issue 145
2003 Morris, Barbara, ‘Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage’ at the de Saisset Museum, Art Week, July/August issue
1998 Noval, Trena, Cocktail Hour: Examining New Imagery in the AIDS Era, Camerawork: Journal of Photographic Arts, Volume 25, Number 1, Spring/Summer
Collections
Ed Gilbert
Marianna Stark
John McGuirk
Josephine Taylor
Daniel Nicoletta
Jeffrey Friedman
Rob Epstein
Joe Rodota
Philip Aarons
Representation
Hang Art, 567 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 415-434-4264