Dave McDermott 1974

Lives in Brooklyn (US). Works in Brooklyn (US).

Represented by:

GRIMM

Dave McDermott’s (1974 Santa Cruz, US) work embodies his distinctive approach to painting, consistently seeking to enlarge the medium’s inherent boundaries and resisting easy categorization, while developing a recognizable visual vocabulary within its own pluralistic nature. At once painterly and sculptural, textural and figurative, his works balance a multiplicity of material and formal components to invoke the experience of order among fragmentary elements: a kind of order that arises not as a resolving “answer,” but as an ongoing activity of mind.

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Dave McDermott – The Long Goodbye, 2018

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

Dave McDermott

18 nov - 7 jan 2023, New York, USA

West

Dave McDermott

9 may - 27 jun 2020, Amsterdam, Nederland

In museum collection:

Museum Voorlinden

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

In corporate collection:

The Ekard Collection, The Netherlands

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Dave McDermott lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He earned his BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, and his MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include The Idiot, Brennan & Griffin, New York (US), 2016; Goethe’s Girlfriend, Brennan & Griffin, New York (US), 2014; The Power and Influence of Joseph Wiseman, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2013; Pleasure Centre, Twig, Brussels (BE), 2012; Tot, Duve, Berlin (DE), 2012; A Rake’s Progress, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2011; The Modern Temper, Duve, Berlin (DE), 2011; Most Of What Follows Is True, Royale, San Francisco (US), 2005. Selected group exhibitions include Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York (US), 2015; Group Exhibition, Brennan & Griffin, New York (US), 2015; East Side to the West Side, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (US), 2014; Huidige Zaken, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2014; Beyond the Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan (IT), 2013; Black Medicine (Dave McDermott/Nick van Woert), Room East, New York (US), 2010; Hi, Low and in Between, curated by Matthew Day Jackson & Simone Subal, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2009.

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b. 1974 in Santa Cruz, CA (US)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA (US)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022
The Varieties of Religious Experience, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)

2020
West, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

2018
The Long Goodbye, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)

2016
The Idiot, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY (US)

2014
Goethe’s Girlfriend, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY (US)

2013
The Power and Influence of Joseph Wiseman, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

2012
Dave McDermott: Pleasure Centre, Twig Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Tot, DUVE, Berlin (DE)

2011
A Rake’s Progress, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
The Modern Temper, DUVE, Berlin (DE)

2005
Most of What Follows Is True, Royale, San Francisco, CA (US)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021
Inaugural exhibition, GRIMM New York, NY (US)

2020
Artist for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York (NY)
45 at 45, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA (US)

2018
Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)

2015
Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (US)
Group Exhibition, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY (US)

2014
East Side to the West Side, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (US)
Huidige Zaken, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

2013
Beyond the Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan (IT)

2012
Black Medicine: Dave McDermott / Nick van Woert, Room East, New York, NY (US)
DIA:Macon I, DIA:Macon, New York, NY (US)

2011
The Hybrid Velocity, Twig gallery, Brussels (BE)
Cover Version | LP, curated by Timothy Hull, BAM Brooklyn, New York, NY (US)
Tailgates and Substitutes, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (US)

2010
Comedy & Tragedy, curated by David Hunt, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Burn, Baby, Burn!, DUVE, Berlin (DE)

2009
Chimera, curated by David Hunt, SCOPE Special Projects, Miami, FL (US)
Hi, Low and In Between, curated by Matthew Day Jackson & Simone Subal, GRIMM Amsterdam (NL)

2008
Sonata for Executioner and Various Young Women, curated by Nicholas Weist, André Schlechtriem Contemporary, New York, NY (US)
A Seer out of Season, curated by Tairone Bastien & Candice Madey, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (US)
Cover Version, curated by Timothy Hull, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Looking Back, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, NY (US)
If I Told You You Were Beautiful, Would You Date Me On The Regular, curated by Nicholas Weist, Oliver Kamm, New York, NY (US)

2007
Until I Know the Pattern: Dave McDermott & Timothy Hull, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA (US)
CAA-New York Region MFA Show, Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY (US)

2006
20mb, curated by MF Tichy, Mass Art Gallery, Austin, TX (US)
Deluge, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA (US)

2005
Is There Summer in San Francisco?, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA (US)

2004
12 x 12, Royale, San Francisco, CA (US)

Selected Collections

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL (US)
Defares Collection, Amsterdam (NL)
De Heus-Zomer Collection, Barneveld (NL)
THE EKARD COLLECTION
Mizuho Art Collection, London (UK)
Mohammed Al-Thani Collection, Sharjah (AE)
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (US)
The Finest Amsterdam Contemporary Art Collection ever…, Amsterdam (NL)
Wassim Rasamny Collection, Beirut (LB)
Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)

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