David Scott Mccurry

I am an American realist artist who works primarily in traditional mediums and found object assemblage. I was born in Charleston, South Carolina. My work life has taken me to the African continent where I lived in The Gambia (1980-83), Malawi (1988-91) and Namibia (1995-98). I currently reside in Cork, Ireland (Blarney).

My work builds autobiographical narrative of place and history, often focused on architectural and natural subjects in the many locations of my life and work. I am also an academic scholar and former tenured associate professor in the fields of image-based qualitative social research, media and technology in education. This work has influenced my art by contributing to an ethnographic narrative built around the locations and subjects of my painting.

David studied painting and drawing with the late Miguel Angel Argüello at the University of California, Santa Cruz. David has also studied painting with the late Kay Chiromo and stone sculpture with Berlings Kaunda in Malawi, Africa and recently been mentored by painters Michael Brodeur and Phil Garrett in South Carolina. David received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Goddard College, Vermont in 2010.

2014 “Bricolage Realism” Coldwell Banker Caine Main St. Real Estate Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina.
2012
“Fine Art Ramblers” group exhibition at the Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, North Carolina. January – March.
2nd Annual Trillium Arts Centre Juried Show, Travelers Rest, SC. Aug. 6th – Sept. 11th. Best of show award, “West End Backside, bricolage no. 2”
MFA Exhibit, Goddard College, VT. Jan. 27-31 (catalog)
Greenville Seen, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC. Jan. 15-Feb. 26
2009
Open Studios Exhibiting Artist, Greenville, SC. November
Art on Trinity Street, Abbeville, South Carolina. September
Visual Works, Eliot Pratt Center, Plainfield, Vermont. July
Best of American Artists, Oil Painting (catalog)
Best of American Artists, Mixed Media (catalog)
30th Annual Juried South Carolina Artists Competition, Pickens County Museum, SC
34th Annual Juried Exhibition, Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, South Carolina
Considered Space: Visual Works, Eliot Pratt Center, Plainfield, Vermont. February
2008
Abbeville Arts Festival, Abbeville, South Carolina. October
International Plein Air Painters (IPAP) Featured Artist
“…6, 7, 8 , 9…” F.Y.I. Gallery, Greenville SC. April
The Connection: Carolina-Barbados Connection Traveling Exhibition
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