David Antonides
David Antonides
Berlin. Vancouver, BC, Canada
About David Antonides
David Antonides Born in Whitehorse, Yukon in 1958, David Antonides has studied in, Europe, Canada and at the Art Students League of New York. His work is focused on water-based pigments - but in an approach that creates a weight and drama not normally associated with this typically transparent and fragile medium. Although he paints some studies in oil, the final works are completed in water media. The course of Davids work has lead to a focus on large format cityscapes and urban behavior. Water for me is a medium that intermediates the tangible with emotion and spirit. It flows between my intention and its own laws of nature and serendipity its a collaboration of sorts.Watercolour can make a strong statement and be monumental. It can have weight and gravity. I am searching to create a weight and drama not normally associated with this typically transparent and fragile medium. I want explore the contrast between the subtlety of complex color transitions and the strength of dense, robust marks. I believe that there is spirit and nature in the city. We can feel it, although we may not always know where to see it. Shapes and movement can express the essential experience we all innately attach to our familiar urban environment. I want to move away from rendering these environments, struggling not to describe them but to push the shapes far enough from the literal that -with the help of gallons of water - find what flows between objects, viewer and experience. www.davidantonides.com www.brunnen64.com
Education:
EDUCATION
2002 - 2006
Art Students League of New York
1999 – 2001
Vancouver Academy of Art, Vancouver
1998 - 2001
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
1996
University of British Columbia art history (audited courses), Vancouver
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Professional Association of Berlin Visual Artists/ Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Berlins e.V. (BBK )
Artists’ Database and Archive of Art in Public Space/ Kunst im öffentlichen Raum im Kulturwerk des bbk berlin GmbH
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Public Art Competition (shortlisted 8th) Humboldtforum im Berliner Schloss, Treppenhäuser I und V, Berlin, 2017
Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis der Märkischen Oderzeitung 2016, Malerei (nominated)
AOK Art Prize 2016, Kunst trifft Gesundheit, (nominated)
Uckermärkische Kunstpreis 2016 (nominated)
Red Dot Award, Phyllis Harriman Gallery, New York, 2006
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Public Art Competition (shortlisted 8th) Humboldtforum im Berliner Schloss, Treppenhäuser I und V, Berlin, 2017
Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis der Märkischen Oderzeitung 2016, Malerei (nominated)
AOK Art Prize 2016, Kunst trifft Gesundheit, (nominated)
Uckermärkische Kunstpreis 2016 (nominated)
Red Dot Award, Phyllis Harriman Gallery, New York, 2006
Details and Exhibition history at http://www.davidantonides.com/bio/
Events:
2018 Art Prizes
1. I am pleased to be juried into the Brandenburg Art prize with the sculpture "TYPE 1" Brandenburgerische Kunst Pries 2018. The exhibition will run from the opening on the first of July 2018 at Neuhardenberg Castle www.schlossneuhardenberg.de/en/information/
2. The glass and paper miniature "God Created the Integers" for Stephen Hawking, 2018 has passed the first jury process for the 2018 Fürstenwalder Kunstpreis. Exhibition will follow.
Kunstgalerie Altes Rathaus Fürstenwalde
Am Markt 1
15517 Fürstenwalde
03361 710188
www.kunst-fw.de
Humboldt Forum im Berlin Schloss
DAVID ANTONIDES WAS CHOSEN AS ONE OF 18 FINALISTS OF 220 INTERNATIONAL ENTRIES FOR THIS PROJECT.
A PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF THE PROPOSAL PRESENTATIONS HAS BEEN ON DISPLAY AT THE HUMBOLDT BOX EXHIBITION CENTER.
Christies Art and Architecture Review Oct/Nov 2017
Tagesspiegel Kunst Guide 2017 / 2018
Exhibitions:
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
ZIP, Brunnen64 Gallery, Berlin, Sept/Oct 2017
2016
Insight, Brunnen64 Gallery, Berlin, Feb/Mar 2016
2015
solo, Brunnen64 Gallery, Berlin, Sept/Oct 2015
2014
Transcapes, Brunnen64 Gallery, Berlin, Oct-Dec 2014
Density, Broadfoot and Broadfoot, New Jersey, Sept 2014
2013
Ghost and Twins, Brunnen64 Gallery, Berlin, Nov/Dec 2013
City, Forest and Boat-Scapes, Granville Fine Art, Vancouver, June 2013
2012
Berlin Interiors and Urban Life, Brunnen64 Gallery, Berlin, May/June 2012
New Work, Broadfoot and Broadfoot Gallery, NYC, Mar 2012
2011
CITY CODE*required, Urban views and identities, Brunnen64 Gallery, Berlin, Mar/April 2011
Inner-view, Zeitfenster, interiors-inside out, Green Living, Kulturbrauerei Berlin, Feb 2011
2010
Inner-view, Zeitfenster, interiors-inside out, Brunnen64 Gallery, Berlin, Nov/Dec 2010
Berlin Finissage, Private home exhibition on Jasmunder Strasse, Berlin, June, 2010
New Work, Becker Galleries, Vancouver, Feb/Mar 2010
2009
Vancouver Narratives, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, Nov 2009
New Work, Broadfoot and Broadfoot Gallery, NYC, Oct 2009
2008
Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Broadfoot and Broadfoot Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007
Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2006
AutoOne Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Wettbewerbsbeiträge Kunst-am-Bau, Treppenhäuser I und V, Humboldtforum im Berliner Schloss, Humboldtbox, Berlin, Mar 2018
Salon Nr. 2, Galerie Christine Knauber, Berlin, Mar-June 2018
Pulp + Process III, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, Canada, Jan 2018
2017
Metropolis Touring Art Book project continues to exhibit in
Colours of summer VIII, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, Canada, June 2017
AOK Art Prize 2016 Show, Kunst trifft Gesundheit Neubrandenburg, Berlin, Jan 2017
Spectrum, Art 345 Gallery, New York, Jan 2017
Uckermärkische Kunstpreis 2016, Prenzlau, Kloster Chorin, Angermünde, Templin 2017
2016
Salon Nr. 1, Galerie Christine Knauber, Berlin, Nov 16- Jan 2017
30 Year Anniversary Show, Artworks Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 2016
Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis 2016, Schloss Neuhardenberg, Juli/ Aug 2016
Colors of the Summer, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, Canada, Jul 2016
AOK Art Prize 2016 Show, Kunst trifft Gesundheit, Schwerin, Berlin, Neubrandenburg, Jan-Dec 2016
Metropolis, Touring Art Book - fine art prints by 303 artists, Galerie 5ünf Sinne, Halle/Saale, Kulturhaus Milbersthofen, München; Biblioteca, Albergo delle Rovere, Palermo
2015
Group Work, Broadfoot and Broadfoot Gallery, NJ, 2015
OpenAirGallery, Oberbaumbrücke, Berlin, June July 2015
Gallery Artists, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, Canada, June 2015
Scapes, Artworks Gallery, Vancouver, June/July 2015
Paper, with Barbara Yeomans, The Project 155, New York, May 2015
Metropolis, Touring Art Book - fine art prints by 303 artists, BBK Druckwerkstatt, Berlin, Mar-June 2015
Urbanity, Artworks Gallery, Vancouver, Jan/Feb 2015
On-going Group Show, Albert Baake Galerie, Potsdam, Germany, 2015
2014
Weihnachtsausstellung, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Nov/Dec/Jan 2014/2015
Spur der Steine, Lithografie-Ausstellung, BBK Druckwerkstatt Bethanien, Nov 2014
On-going, Albert Baake Galerie, Potsdam, Germany, 2014
transit, 30 links Berlin, Oct 2014
INSTANCE, with Carole McDermit, The Project 155, New York, Fall 2014
Kunst Mecklenburg Inspiriert, Kunsthalle Kühlungsborn, Germany, Mar 2014
Transmetropolis, GASAG Kunstraum, Berlin, Feb/Mar 2014
aufgekratzt und tiefgedruckt BBK Druckwerkstatt Bethanien, Berlin, Apr-July 2014
OpenAirGallery, Annual Oberbaumbrücke, Berlin, July 2014
Metropolis, Touring Art Book - fine art prints by 303 artists, Centro Internazionale della Grafica Venice, Kunstfabrik HB 55 Berlin
2013
Weihnachtsausstellung, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Nov/Dec/Jan 2013
Big and Small for All, Granville Fine Art, Vancouver, Nov 2013
Fall Arts Preview, Granville Fine Art, Vancouver, Oct 2013
Limerick/ Berlin Print Exchange, BBK Druckwerkstatt Kunstquartier Bethanien exhibits at Limerick Printmakers, Ireland, Sept/ Oct 2013
Macht Kunst, Deutsche Bank, Kunsthall