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 environm...

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
TheRhinePrize Sculpture prize (nominated)
Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis der Märkischen Oderzeitung 2018, Skulptur (nominated)
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/

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Eintauchen. Partout Parcours, Part2Gallery, Düsseldorf, Dec 2023 - Jan 2024

Curve of the Earth-Weitsicht, Kunst Heute - Bröllin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Oct- Dec 2020

Parcours, EWE Kunstparkhaus Strausberg, Germany Spring 2020 (Canceled Covid19)
2019
Urban Jungle Galerie Knauber, Berlin, Aug-Nov 2019
Heavy Lift, Märchenvilla, Eberswalde, Sept-Oct 2019
2018
ZIP, Brunnen64 Gallery, Berlin, Sept/Oct 2018
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
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...