David Simpson

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Any Day Now, 2000, Late Lamented Lavender, 2007, Light Wells, 2007

Born in Pasadena, California
Lives and works in Berkeley, California

EDUCATION

1958 MFA, San Francisco State College
1956 BFA, California School of Fine Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX “Iridescent – Interference”
        Gallery G7, Bologna, Italy, Recent Paintings
2004 Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Works on Paper—“Surrealist Landscapes and Other Departures”
2003 James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Renate Schroder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2001 Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
        Renate Schroder Galerie, Cologne, Germany
        Modernism, San Francisco, California
2000 Galerie Schroder , Cologne, Germany
        Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
1999 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
        Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997 Studio La CittĂ , Verona, Italy (catalogue)
        Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
1996 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy, 35th Anniversary Exhibit
        Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Natalie and Irving Forman Collection
        Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle, Lingen, Germany, “An Inner Glow—Color as Painting”
2004 Galleria Civico d’Arte Contemporanea di Siricusa, Sicily, Italy, “Per Amore”
        Fondazione Marenostrum, Porto Venere, Italy, “Lucidimente”
2003 realUNreal, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno (catalogue)
2001 Monochromatic Light, Palazzo Ducale Di Sassulo, Sassulo, Italy
1999 Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
1998 La Collezione Panza di Biumo: Artisti degli anni 80’s – 90’s, Museo del Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
1997 The Blake House, University of California San Diego Art Gallery, La Jolla, California
        In Touch With, Galerie + Edition Renate Schroder, Cologne, Germany
        Obsession & Devotion, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
        Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1996 Geometry and Flow, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
        The Panza di Biumo Collection: Artists of the 80’s and 90’s, Museo di Arte Moderna e
        Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
        And They Call It Painting, Studio La CittĂ , Verona, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
        Inaugural Show, Haines Gallery, Brooklyn Heights, New York

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2001 Baker, Kenneth. David Simpson, Verona, Italy: Studio La Citta.
Baker, Kenneth. “Subtle Abstraction of David Simpson,” San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May: B1.
2000 Panza di Biumo, Giuseppe. Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza: Varese (Biumo Superiore), Fondo Per Lâ’Ambiente Italiano.
Bonetti, David. “Bay Area artist and his modern Medici,” San Francisco Examiner, 23 August: D1 & D4.
1999 Bay Area Now 2, San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, (exhibition catalogue).
1998 Von Valsassina, Caterina e Giuseppe Panza di Biumo. La Collezione Panza di Biumo: Artisti degli anni 80 - 90, del Palazzo Ducale (exhibition catalogue).
Duston Wall Moure, Nancy. California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media, Los Angeles, California.
1997 Sguardi sulla Collezione dello Stato del Cantone Ticino. The Panza di Biumo Donation to the Museo Cantonale da’Arte, Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino,
Museo Cantonale dâ’Arte, Laguna, Italy.
Govern Balear - Conselleria dâ’Educacio, Cultura i Esports.
Col Lecci Panza di Biumo: Anys 80 i 90, Llonja Agost – Setembre de 1997
1996 Meneghelli, Luigi. Â Tanto per farsi unâ idea dellâ arte attuale. Lâ Arena 6 November: 35.
Fiz, Alberto. I consigli del conte.â Milano Finanza, 7 September: 18-19.
Vaghegggi, Paolo. Un collezionista affascinato dalla America: Giuseppe Panza espone a
Trento le sue opere. La Repubblica, Il Luned dellâ Arte, 2 September: 21.
Trevisan, Giorgio. “Tante pitture, nessuna memoria,” Lâ Arena, 11 July.
Belli, Gabriella and Panza di Biumo, Giuseppe. The Panza di Biumo Collection: Artists of the 80s and 90s,
Milan, Italy: Electa, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy. Also published in the Italian (exhibition catalogue).
Bonetti, David. “Artists Who Take Abstraction to Ground Zero,” San Francisco Examiner, 12 April.

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art (MART), Roverato, Italy
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Central Research Corporation, New York City, New York
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Columbia Broadcasting System, New York City, New York
IBM Corporation, San Jose, California
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
Museo di Arte Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California
Panza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, Biumo Superiore, Varese, Italy
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
REFCO Collection, Chicago, Illinois
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, Washington
Shasta College, Redding, California
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Zellerbach Corporation, California
 

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