David Row
Straight Down Rain III (2021)
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.
He is currently represented by Loretta Howard Gallery in Chelsea, NYC; Locks Gallery in Philadelphia; and McClain Gallery in Houston, Texas. 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.
EDUCATION
1974 MFA Yale University, New Haven, CT
1972 BA cum laude, Yale University, New Haven, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA2019 Portland Museum of Art, New Acquisitions Lobby Installation, Portland, ME
2018 Loretta Howard Gallery, New York
Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA2017 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
M Street Lobby Installation, Washington, DC
5 Bryant Park, Art Assets, New York, NY2015 Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2014 Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Terrazzo Art Projects, New York, NY 717 Fifth Avenue
Art Assets, New York, NY2013 McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2010 Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
McClain Gallery, Houston, TX2009 Rosenbaum Contemporary Art, Boca Raton FL
2008 Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick ME
2006 Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2005White8 Galerie, Villach, Austria
2004Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY2001 The MAC (McKinney Avenue Contemporary), Dallas, TX
Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS2000 Galerie Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie von Lintel & Nusser, Munich, Germany
Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art. San Diego, CA
Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, TX
New York Public Library. New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, New York, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Ackland Art Museum. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Allentown Art Museum. Allentown, PA
Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, PA
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art. Wichita, KS
Eli Luria Library, Santa Barbara City College. Santa Barbara, CA.
Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna. San Marino, Republica di San Marino
The Hood Museum of Art. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art. Peekskill, NY
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Mead Art Museum. Amherst College, Amherst, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Here & There, curated by David Row. Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
2020 From Géricault to Rockburne: Selections from the Michael & Juliet Rubenstein Gift. The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Met Breuer, New York, NY
Armory Show: Heat Wave. Locks Gallery at Pier 94, New York, NY
American Abstract Artists Digital Prints:2012-2019. Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2019 Year in Review. Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Summertime Blues. Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Exhibition Print Portfolio Traveling Exhibition: University of Houston–Clear Lake, Houston, TX.
Wrather West Kentucky Museum, Murray State University, Murray, KY2018 Off the Wall. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Improvisations and Premeditations. Phillip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2017 Shape Paintings: Elizabeth Murry, Jennifer Bartlett, Richard Tuttle, Ralph Humphrey, Joanna Pousette-Dart, and David Row. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016The Onward of Art. American Abstract Artists 80th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Karen Wilkin, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Making the Mark. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Endless, Entire. Curated by Rachel Nackman, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Choate Rosemary Hall’s 125th Celebration: Exhibition of Works by Alumni Artists. Paul Mellon Arts Center Gallery, Wallingford, CT
Winter Review. Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Portfolio Traveling Exhibition: Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
B/W: Works on Paper. Bank of America Center, Houston, TX
Sideshow Nation III: Circle the Wagons. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Portfolio Traveling Exhibition: Mary Wood University, Scranton, PA. Back and Forth. Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX2014 Out of Bounds. Neptune Fine Art, Washington, DC Summer Group. Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Sideshow Nation II: At the Alamo. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sensory Impact. Morgan Stanley International. Purchase, NY
To Leo: A Tribute from American Abstract Artists. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Homage to Roy Campbell. Kirili/Lopez-Huici Studio, New York, NY
American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Portfolio Traveling Exhibition:Martin Gallery at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA2013 Across Boundaries. Terazzo Art Projects, New York. Endless, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Summer Group Show. Phillip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Dynamic Invention: American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Portfolio Exhibition, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, traveling then to Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. Downtown Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Red X (2021)