Saint Louis, MO, United States
951.733.3152 Acquistapace (Ah - kwees - ta - pah - chay) Italian “One who acquires peace” My dra...
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Acquistapace
(Ah - kwees - ta - pah - chay)
Italian “One who acquires peace”
My drawings and paintings are filled with the iconography of everyday objects. I arrange these objects to question their established cultural associations and create a visual language of images charged with meaning and unexpected possibilities—their significance inherently inevitable."
David Acquistapace is a contemporary painter who lives and works in Saint Louis, Missouri. A native of California, his intense colors and ephemeral lighting pay homage to the unique atmosphere and light of the California coast. An artist friend said to him upon moving to Saint Louis, “It will be interesting to see how the Midwest affects your palette." Three years later he wrote to his friend and said, “It has been quite interesting to see how my palette has affected the Midwest."
Acquistapace’s fine art has been shown in both museums and regional venues, including the San Bernardino County Museum of Art in California, the Los Angeles Citywide exhibition in California, the Evansville Museum in Indiana, the Northern National exhibit at Nicole College in Wisconsin, where juror Philip Pearlstein awarded his painting “Minotaur” the Patricia Miller Friebert Awa...
B.A., Fine Art, Biola College, CA, 1978
M.A., Art, CSU Fullerton, CA, 1995
M.F.A., Art, CSU Fullerton, CA 1998
2023 Biennial Exhibition, Cedarhurst Museum, IL
2022 Expressions 2022, Marin, CA
2022 Art in the Time of Corona, Online
2022 Within, Art Fluent, Boson, MA
2022 Expo 41, Group Exhibit, B.J. Spoke Gallery, New York
2021 8x8x8, Group Exhibit, Foundry Art Centre, MO
2021 WhatEvs, Art Fluent, Boston, MA
2021 Painting 2011 - 2021, Site Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Juror, Peter Frank
2021 Re-Entry, Webster Arts, Saint Louis, MO
First Prize
2021 Near and Far, Rhode Island Watercolor Society,
Pawtucket, RI
2021 Dreamlife, Art Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO
2020 60th Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville
Museum, Evansville, IN
2019 Group exhibition, Saint Charles Community
College, Saint Charles, MO
2019 Outliers, Art Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO
2007 Faculty Exhibit, College of the Desert, CA
2004 Faculty Exhibit, College of the Desert, CA
2003 Faculty Exhibit, College of the Desert, CA
2001 Faculty Exhibit, College of the Desert, CA
2001 Long Beach Open, Long Beach Arts, CA
1999 Long Beach Open, Long Beach Arts, CA
1999 Faculty Exhibit, San Bernardino Valley CC, CA
1999 Grand Central Art Center exhibition, Santa Ana, CA
1998 ...
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