David Disko

Growing up my family was always on the move. As an adult finding a place for myself became a calling.

Outside my front door, plants perform everyday miracles, in full flower one day, withered the next.

In the Bosque are large, craggy Cottonwoods, underfoot is a thick carpet of their teardrop shaped leaves. The river appears a twinkling gold through the dense brush.

In New Mexico our changeable sky dwarfs all else. The clear blue can in an hour become a sea of thunderheads, deliverers’ of lightning.

When the sun is low, a shadow world is created where the meanings of objects are altered. Shadows become doppelgangers for things and people I’m certain I know.

In my re-purposed canvases, licks and daubs of paint from past images live on. I extend images out, onto my frames, and with imagination, to infinity. I also assemble canvases together creating work that is formally composed, yet spontaneous.

In summary, I paint what I know well, my medium is my history and my inspiration is place.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Utah, 1980

ONE & TWO PERSON SHOWS
(2024) “Among Saplings at Sunrise” Albuquerque
International Sunport, Albuquerque, NM
(2024) “Ordinary Magic” The Curated Creative,
Albuquerque, NM
(2024) “Diptychs” Albuquerque International Sunport,
Albuquerque, NM
(2023) "June Exhibition" Albuquerque International
Sunport, Albuquerque, NM
(2018) David Disko and Dani Jeffries, “A View from Above”,
Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM

GROUP SHOWS
(2024) "12x12" Harwood Art Center, 2024,
Albuquerque, NM
(2023) "12x12" Harwood Art Center, 2023,
Albuquerque, NM
(2023) The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX
(2023) Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
(2023) "Everything Blue", MVA Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
(2023) "New Horizons: Landscapes 6th Annual Exhibition",
3Square Art, Fort Collins, CO
(2022) "12x12”, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
(2022) Albuquerque International Sunport,
Albuquerque, NM
(2021) Albuquerque International Sunport,
Albuquerque, NM
(2020) Western National Juried Exhibition, Dallas Metro
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