David Lavine

All collages are one-of-a-kind works on paper, hand-cut with scissors and assembled with archival tape and glue. There is no scanning, reprinting or any type of digital manipulation. All printed matter is fair game: textbooks, posters, magazines, catalogs, coloring books, maps, comic books, art books, and so on.

Working from a quarry of several thousand cut elements, formal relationships serve as a starting point for each collage; eventually narrative threads appear as disparate elements begin to relate.

Unique in the cut-and-paste world, these collages with their intricate, dynamic compositions of interlocking elements, their predominant sourcing from printed graphic works, and their combinations often resulting in darkly comic, pseudo-violent and homoerotic storytelling all make the body of work a spectacular standout.

Recent work includes colored pencil drawings based on collages.

University of Pennsylvania, BA Fine Arts

Selected group shows:
“#CollageNow,” Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY, 2022
“#CollageBiennal,” Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY 2021
“#CollageNow. Analogue Collage in an Instagram Era,” Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY, 2019
"Art from the Boros II," Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY, 2014
"Art from the Boros," Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY, 2012-13
"Green Acres & Simple Pleasures," Piermont Straus, Piermont, NY, 2012
Dealers' Lounge, PS Project Space, New York, NY, 2012
"A Minor Inconvenience," Pierro Gallery of South Orange / Montclair Art Museum Young Curators, South Orange, NJ, 2012
"Scapes," Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
"Intimate: Small Works," Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY, 2011

Solo shows:
"David Lavine, Cut It Out!" Cornelia Street Cafe, New York, NY, 2017
"David Lavine: Collage,” BGSQD / Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, New York, NY, 2015
"David Lavine: Collage,” Joe, New York, NY, 2015