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Comments about the artist:

“ ...What stands out about Mr. Glynn's art, in my view, is his willingness to engage in 

an eclectic and free-wheeling range of techniques to process images....” 

   —Howard N. Fox, Curator Emeritus at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 

“...A true muse is part of the creative process, an example of how being seen is a creative act...”

    — Mary McNamara, Pulitzer Prize winning critic, Los Angeles Times, quoted Glynn

An artist with “...consummate skill. . . [who] executes a seamless marriage of modern technology and whimsical playfulness without losing either sensibility or coherence...”

   —Art Review critic Laurent Chobert

“David Glynn, a New York City based multimedia artist, might cringe if someone compared him to Michelangelo. But Glynn’s recent work bears more than a little resemblance to ‘The Fall of Man’ from the Sistine Chapel ceiling...”

   —Micropublishing News reviewer James Cavuoto

“...The result is a series of images of a long-haired, discreetly topless young woman tumbling dreamily through the deep…”

   —The New York Times’ Roberta Hershenson, describing a Glynn ceiling painting

BIO
David Glynn is a contemporary figurative painter whose engaging scenes of domestic life with plants and animals have appeared in international exhibits and collections.

Born in Boston and raised in New Hampshire, near the seacoast, he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence as a freshman before transferring to the San Francisco Art Institute. There he was approved by Robert Colescott, the 1997 U.S. representative to the Venice Bienalle and the first Black man to represent in a solo exhibition, to skip the Intro to Painting course, matriculating directly into Colescott’s Advanced Painting course. For his junior year, Glynn transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

Over the course of his career, Glynn has taught Digital Media at Otis College of Art and Design and received an “Excellence Award in Art Education” for teaching the Advanced Painting Course at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA or “Arts High.”) He has taught varied subjects for a cumulative decade, including Portfolio Prep, Life Drawing and Oil Painting.

Glynn shows his work in numerous exhibits, including a solo show at the Bergamot Station Arts Complex in Santa Monica. He was in the L.A. Weekly for his mural-size print “4096:Trust Time,” which was shown at the L.A. Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall and has been featured in several publications such as the New Yorker magazine and the New York Times.

His work appears in many collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, UK.

Glynn lives and works in Pasadena, CA, with his wife, Donna, a writer.

CV
Born 1961, Boston, MA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
1981-1982     Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1980-1981     San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1979-1980     Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003     New Paintings, South LaBrea Gallery, Inglewood, CA
1996     Digitalogue Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021    "The Eye Poet" dome virtual reality gallery, Virtual Burning Man, AltSpace.com, Audri Phillips, curator
2017    Faces in the Crowd, Avenue 50 Studio gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016    New Work, Perimeter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015    Dark Matter, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2013    Untitled Projects, Art Copenhagen, Denmark
2011     Mysterious Objects: Portraits of Joan Quinn, Curated by Cheryl Bookout & Amanda Quinn Olivar,                     Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2009   Faculty Show, Curated by Max Presneill, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2008   Group Show, Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2007   Faculty Show, Curated by Kristina Newhouse, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
            Small Wonders III, Juried by Holly Meyers, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006   Inauguration 3, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2005   Portraits, Bamboo Lane/Revisited, Los Angeles, CA  
           Table of Contents, Modern Art Downtown LA gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004   Signified, Orlando Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003   SIGGRAPH ’03, Juried by Michael Wright, Convention Center, San Diego, CA
            Architech: Alone in a Naked City, EZTV at 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
2000   New Group Show, Spectra Digital Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1999    Digital Spectrum, Spectra Digital Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1998    Colors, Vibrant Gallery, New York, NY
1997    Through the Looking Glass: Artist Self-Portraits, Curated by Betty Disney, Cypress College, Cypress,               CA
1995    Vital Signs, Curated by Noel Korten and Margaret Lazzari, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,                           Hollywood, CA
            Digital SITE, Art / Computer Interface, SITE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994    SIGGRAPH '94, Juried by Barbara London, Convention Center, Orlando, FL
            Digital L.A., Curated by Michael Wright and Patric Prince, Sam Francis Gallery at the Crossroads                       School for Art and Science, Santa Monica, CA
1993    A Digital Dialog, Curated by Betty Disney, Cypress College, CA
           But Is It Art? Currents in Electronic Imaging, Pacific Lutheran University Gallery, Tacoma, WA
1992   Silent Partners, Curated by Patric Prince, Los Angeles New Art Foundation, Cyberspace Gallery at                    EZTV, West Hollywood, CA
1991    El-Art: An Exhibition of Electronic Arts, Curated by Anti Kari, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju, Finland
           The Computer Art Show, Curated by Karen R. Mobley, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State                        University, Las Cruces, NM
1990   SIGGRAPH '90, Curated by Patric Prince,Convention Center, Dallas, TX
           Traveling Show (featuring selections from SIGGRAPH '90), Computer Museum, Boston, MA
           Hard Copy by Verbum Magazine, Curated by Michael Gosney, University of California at San Diego,                San Diego, CA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Anna Nicholas, Los Angeles, CA
Claudia Cron, Essex, CT
Janet and Gilbert Friesen, Los Angeles, CA
Joan A. Quinn, Beverly Hills, CA
John and Susan Joyce, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Kristiane and Niels Janeke, Berlin, Germany
Mark Costello and Gregory McSparron, West Hollywood, CA
Sherri and Howard Kaufman, Los Angeles, CA
Tim Christian and Matthew Eastus, Los Angeles, CA
Todd Stevens, Los Angeles, CA
Victor Sherman, Los Angeles, CA

AWARDS
Excellence Award in Art Education, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, 2002

LECTURES / TEACHINGS
Lectured about color in my art at Interior Design Department at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 2019
Taught in digital media dept. at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2001
Taught advanced painting class at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2002
Taught classes on figure drawing, oil painting, and portfolio prep at Torrance Cultural Center, Torrance, CA 2003- 2010
Lectured about Computer Art series to Journalism Department at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1993

SELECTED BOOKS, PRESS AND REVIEWS
2015    Poets and Artists: Figural Movement. Curated by F. Scott Hess. Laguna, CA: Didi Menendez, 2015.
2007   Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood. Edited by Donya                   Currie Arias and Hildie S. Block. Arlington, Virgina: Paycock Press.
2003   Los Angeles Times, Mary McNamara, . “The Muse Steps off the Pedestal”. , Home Edition Main News                   Part A Page 2,13 April 2003. 
2003     SIGGRAPH 2003: Electronic Arts Catalogue (exhibition catalogue and CD-ROM). Juried by Michael                 Wright, illustrated.
2001    The Fun of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town (The New Yorker). Edited by Lillian Ross. New York:                 The Modern Library, 2001. 
2000   The New York Times, Roberta Hershenson, . “Through an Office and into the Deep”. , Footlights                         section, 10 December, 2000.
2000   The New Yorker,    Mark Singer,. “Nudie Pix Redux”. , Pg 70, 19 June 2000. 
1999    Cavuoto, James.  “David Glynn—Expressing the Divine” MicroPublishing News, June 1999.
1996    Chobert, Laurent. “David Glynn—Huge Digital Prints at Digitalogue Gallery”. Art Review, June 1996.
1995    Peter Frank, . “Art Pick of the Week: Vital Signs”. L.A. Weekly, October 1995.
            Vital Signs (exhibition catalogue). Curated by Noel Korten and Margaret Lazzari.  L.A. Municipal                       Gallery.
1994     “Digital L.A.” Venice Magazine, July 1994.
             SIGGRAPH 94: Visual Proceedings Catalog (exhibition catalogue and CD-ROM). Juried by Barbara                  London, illustrated.
1991      The Computer Art Show (exhibition catalogue). Text by Karen Mobley. University Art Gallery, New                    Mexico State University, Cover, illustrated. 
1990     SIGGRAPH 90: Visual Proceedings Catalog (exhibition catalogue). Curated by Patric         Prince,                      illustrated.

Statement

As a figurative painter, I often feel like Sebastian, the android maker in the classic sci-fi movie “Bladerunner” who introduces Pris to his “friends.” Coming home with her, he says, “They are my friends. I made them.”

Before the 2020 pandemic, and after completing my first virtual reality project, “Choice Cycle,” I conceived another VR project consisting of apartment windows in three 17-story buildings that one could fly up to see paintings on the windows.

Prescient as it was, I had no inkling that the whole world would soon be shut down and we would all be living in our locked-down homes.

These paintings are to be experienced in the evening, so light comes from within the buildings. It will be like a museum with paintings on the outside.

I painted a nine-foot mock-up in black and white of the three buildings, and I will hire a developer to recreate the project in VR to my specifications as on my last project.

D. Glynn -2023

note: A dropbox link of the VR experience file is available in HTC VIVE format for preview and purchase as well as an intro video on my youtube channel and at www.davidglynn.com/text