David Kapp

Canal Street, West (2017)

Canal Street, West (2017)

David Kapp was born in NYC in 1953. He attended Walden School, Windham College (BFA, 1974), and Queens College (MFA, 1978). He received a Creative Artists Public Service Fellowship in Painting in 1982 and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1985.

His work can be found in museums and public collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; and Foundation Paribas, Paris, France.

Statement:

Painting is a visual language spanning  thousands of years from the earliest geometric scratches in rocks to present contemporary forms.

Great painting and all of art is a collective achievement  that is rarely made in a vacuum.

From a formal point of view,  light  and  movement in my paintings are of primary importance. They’re adhesives  that bind the image together. 

Simplicity is not an end in itself but something  arrived at,  in order to capture the real sense of a place or a form.

Painting can also be a translation of feeling into form:  rhythmic, graphic, unexpected and immediate.

EDUCATION

  • 1977 MFA, Queens College, New York

  • 1974 BFA, Windham College, Putney, VT

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2018 Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL

  • 2017-2018 Christian Cheneau Gallery, Sante Fe, NM

  • 2017 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 2015 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • 2014 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 2013-2014 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2013 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • 2012 Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

  • 2011 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • 2010 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2009, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
    Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
    Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
    Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • 2008, Galerie Michel Vidal, Paris, France

  • 2007, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • 2006, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

    Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2005 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • 2004, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 2003, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • 2002-2003 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2001, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
    Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1999 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • 1998 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1997 Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC

  • 1996 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1995 Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC

  • 1994 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
    - David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1991 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
    Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
    Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

  • Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

  • Foundation Paribas, Paris, France

  • Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

  • Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

  • Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

  • Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX

  • National Academy Museum, New York, NY

  • Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

  • North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

  • Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

  • Tufts University, Medford, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  •  2021 “For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design”, Crocker Art Museum, CA

  • 2021 “For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design”, Figge Art Museum, IA

  • 2020-2021 “For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design”, New Mexico Museum of Art, NM

  • 2020 “For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design”, Dixon Gallery & Gardens, TN
    “For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design”, Society of the Four Arts, FL

  • 2019-2020 “For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design”, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT

  • 2019 “For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design”, Dayton Art Institute, OH

  • 2017 “Painted Landscapes, Contemporary Views “,  Heritage Museum and Gardens,  Sandwich, MA

  • 2017 “Streets of New York” Portico New York, Inc.

  • 2014 "Manna: Masterworks from the Tufts Permanent Art Collection," Tisch Gallery, Tufts University, MA
    "City As Subject," Westbeth Gallery, NY

  • 2011 "Maine As Muse," LohinGeduld Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2010 "Oblique/Acute," Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

  • 2009 "Urban Perspectives," Ben Aronson, David Kapp, Denis Peterson. Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ

  • 2008 "Urban Landscapes," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

    “Kyoto Hanga 2008 International Print Exhibition.” Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Annex
    Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
    “Painting Structures: Specificity and Synthesis,” List Gallery, Swarthmore College, NY
    The Painting Center, New York, NY

  • 2007-2008 “The Urban Landscape,” Susan Maasch Gallery, Portland, ME

  • 2007 “Marks On Paper,” Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
    “New York At Night,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY
    “Night Vision: Printing Darkness,” Center For Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT

  • 2006-2007 “The Maine Print Project,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
    “Selections from the John and Mary Lou Paxton Collection,” The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
    - “Hotpics/06,” Katonah Museum of Art, Kantonah, NY

  • 2004-2005 “NYC,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY
    “Couples,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

  • 2003 “Modern Shadows,” The Painting Center, New York, NY

  • 2002 “New York City, Some Different Views” Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine

  • 2002 “Facing the City,” DNFA Gallery, Pasadena, CA
    “Beyond the Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape,” Pamela Auchincloss Projects Space and Management Services, New York, NY. Travels to: Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, December 1, 1999 – February 13, 2000; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, February 26 – April 6, 2000; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, May 27 – August 6, 2000; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, August 12 – October 22, 2000; Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, November 18, 2000 – January, 14, 2001; The Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, February 9 – March 23, 2001.

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