David Dimichele

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 pa...

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

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