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David Dimichele
About
A California native, David DiMichele studied art at University of California at Berkeley, U.C. Santa Cruz and Cal State Long Beach. His diverse influences, reflecting the hyprid nature of his work, include conceptualist Jim Melchert, at Berkeley, and the New York School abstract painter Jack Tworkov at Long Beach. DiMicheles involvement with abstract drawing, painting and sculpture led to a series of installation projects in the 1990s at such venues as Simard/Halm Gallery, Los Angeles, Laguna Art Museum, Claremont Graduate University of Art, Cal State Fullerton and the Irvine Fine Art Center. Since the end of the 1990s, DiMichele has focused on a body of work in photographic mediums called Pseudo Documentations. His work is represented in the collections of The Capital Group, Laguna Art Museum, Bank of America, and Disney Corporation, among others. He is a winner of the 2008-9 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship. His work is represented in Los Angeles by Paul Kopeikin Gallery.
My work has always focused on abstraction, initially with non-objective imagery, and later by examining the concept of abstract art in various ways, questioning its conventions and traditions. These works took the form of painting, painted relief sculpture, drawing and installation. Since 2000, my work has taken the form of large scale photography, although it has little to do with the usual issues in that medium. The photographs I create depict fantasy installations in grandiose exhibition spaces. The works are produced by first building scale models of exhibition spaces, and creating within the spaces original artworks in drawing, painting and sculpture mediums. These installations are then photographed with a large format camera to create the final works.
The Pseudodocumentation photographs are inspired by my background as an installation artist, my passion for monumental museum and gallery architecture, and my abiding love of abstract form. The works reverse the usual situation whereby an artwork is created, subsequently documented by a photograph, and reproduced in a book or magazine as a representation of the work.
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- Location
- Los Angeles, United States
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley, art major
University of California at Santa Cruz B.A.
California State University Long Beach M.F.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Pseudodocumentation, Randall Scott Gallery New York
2007 Pseudodocumentation, Paul Kopeikin Gallery Los Angeles
2001 An Automatic Drawing Environment, California State University
Fullerton, Grand Art Complex, Santa Ana, California
1999 Automatic Drawing Project 1999- Vicissitudes, Mendenhall Art
Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, California
1997 Automatic Drawing Project, Claremont Graduate University, Peggy
Phelps Gallery, Claremont, California
1996 Rorschach/Rococo, Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills,
California
1995 Monochromes, William Turner Gallery, Venice, California
1991 Recent Paintings, LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1990 Moments In Time, Portfolio Gallery, Long Beach, California
1989 The Real and the Unreal, Simard/Halm Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1989 Painted Wall Reliefs, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, California
1988 Transformations, California State University Long Beach
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Cola (City of Los Angeles) 2009 Individual Artist Fellowships, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Manifestation, Carl Berg Projects Los Angeles
molasses moves rather quickly. Phantom Galleries LA/Long Beach
2008 Constructed Realities, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2007 Forms in Photography, 98ten Gallery, Irvine, California
2006 Aligning with Abstract LA, den Gallery, Culver City, California
2005 Icons Icons, Icon Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Ultrachrome, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles
Analog/Digital, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, California
2003 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
2002 New Directions, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2001 Essence Re-pared, Tomodachi Gallery, New York
Phigment, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, California
Drawing as Abstraction, Whittier College, Whittier, California
2000 One Night Stand, The Farmer's Daughter Motel, Los Angeles
OK to Touch, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California
Phototron 2000, Georges, Los Angeles, California
The Spurgeon Experience II, The Spurgeon Building, Santa Ana
1999 Future Present, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, California (installation)
Circular Logic, 1-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, California (installation)
1998 Mid Sized Median, Ubermain, Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Strange Air- The Fall Show, Los Angeles, California
LA ArtCore Award Winners, LA ArtCore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
Siqueros/Koll Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Downtown Lives 98- Automatic Drawing Project: an Environment (installation)
DADA, Los Angeles California
1997 Wallworks, L. A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Big Wave, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1996 Smoggy Abstraction: Recent Painting From Los Angeles, Haggerty Art
Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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