David Tomb
Biography
BORN
1961 Alameda, CA
EDUCATION
1979-81 College of Marin, Ketfield, CA 1981-84 California State University, Long Beach, B.F.A, Drawing and Painting 1984.
TEACHING
1995-97 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. Instructor (C.E.), Interpretive Figurative Painting
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
1984 Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA, Open Juried Show. Honorable Mention 1986 California State University, Long Beach. Fine Arts 1987 Affiliates Scholarship. California State Fair, Sacramento, California Works. Award of Excellence California State Fair, Sacramento, California Works. Award of Excellence 1988 Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA, Open Fine Arts Exhibition 1987 1989 Best of Show Award. Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX, 21st Juried Exhibition. Honorable Mentions (three awards). Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, 4th Annual Exhibition. Honored Artist Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, Pro Arts Annual. Honored Artist
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1991 Member, Board of Directors Exhibition Committee Chair, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA (to 1993) Curator, Fractured Fairytales, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA. Performance series with installations featuring Craig Baldwin, Portia Cobb, Guerilla Girls West, Harry Kipper, the Billy Nayer Show 1991 Curator, Urgent Images, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA. Silkscreen prints by Esther Hernandez, Doug Minkler, Malaquias Montoya, Jos Sances 1992 Catalogue essay "Prankster with a Purpose" (with Robin Henderson), Jos Sances—Urgent Responses, The Alternative Museum, NY
LECTURES
1990 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA California State University, Long Beach 1997 Artists Forum, San Francisco, “Obession Revealed: The Serial Portrait,” in conversation with Bruce Nixon, May 6 Artists Forum, San Francisco, “Painting/Architecture: Abstraction of Ideas and Forms,” in conversation with Bruce Tomb, June 3 2000 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Gallery talk in conjunction with the
exhibition David Tomb: Portraits, February 102001 The Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Long Island University, Southampton, NY, in conjunction with the exhibition David Tomb: Twitch 2002 Ohlone College, Fremont, CA, slide lecture, Painting class 2003 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition David Tomb: Ogle
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1989 Hoffman Gallery, Emeryville, CA, David Tomb: Paintings and Drawings, April 7 - May 7 1990 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, David Tomb: Recent Paintings and Charcoal Drawings, September 12 - October 13. Brochure Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, David Tomb: Recent Work, November 15-29 1992 Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, David Tomb: Recent Work, April 2-16 Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA, October 21 - November 28 1994 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, David Tomb: Recent Work, March 3 - April 2 1995 The William-Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, David Tomb: Charcoal Figure Drawings and Oil Portraits, August 18-31 1997 Artists Forum, San Francisco, David Tomb: The Subjective Perception, May 1 - September 14. Brochure 2000 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, David Tomb: Portraits, January 7 - April 9. Catalogue Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Diorama, November 2 - December 2 2001 The Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Southampton, NY, David Tomb: Twitch, November 5 - December 7. Brochure Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, David Tomb, Fresh Contour: Portraits on Paper , December 6-29 2003 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, David Tomb, Ogle: Works on Paper, July 8 - August 2 The William Scott Gallery, Boston, MA, David Tomb: Rogue’s Gallery, October 3 - November 1 2004 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN, David Tomb: Birds and Blokes, September 1-25
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1984 California State University, Long Beach, Icons: David Tomb and Elaine Wells Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA, Long Beach Art Association Open Juried Show. Award 1985 Bizous Cafe-Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA, Drawings: Elaine Wells/David Tomb, March 6 - April 6 7th Place Gallery, Los Angeles, In Spiritus: Spirituality in Contemporary Art 1986 Hayward Forum of the Arts and Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Sixth Annual Competition— Drawing and Printmaking (Alonzo Davis, Juror) California State Fair, Sacramento, California Works (Paul Wonner, Juror). Award. Catalogue Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA (Kenneth Baker, Juror) 1987 Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA, Open Fine Arts Exhibition 1987 (Michael Schwager, Juror). Award California State Fair, Sacramento, California Works. Award. Catalogue Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX, 21st Juried Exhibition (Mary Jane Jacob, Juror), September-October. Award. Catalogue Marin Arts Guild, San Rafael, CA (Kenneth Baker, Juror) 1988 Ironworks, Oakland, CA, Arts Explosion (curated by Phil Linhares and Arthur Monroe) Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary,Williamsburg,VA, American Drawing Biennial (Frank Gettings, Juror), March 19 - May 1. Brochure
North Carolina Print & Drawing Society, Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC, 11th Annual United States Print & Drawing Exhibition (Douglas M. Schultz, Juror), March 25 - April 15. Travel: Center Gallery, Holt McPherson Center, High Point, NC, May 2 - June 17. BrochureHayward Area Forum of the Arts, Hayward, CA (Mark Levy and George Rivera, Jurors) Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, 4th Annual Exhibition (Theresa Heyman and Allan Stone, Jurors). Award 1989 Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, The Annual (curated by Mary Jane Jacob), January 18 - March 4. Catalogue Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA, Provart/Tomb, February 4-26 Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, Line and Form (Robert Flynn Johnson, Juror), March 2 - April 21. Catalogue Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, Art Against AIDS, May 8 - June 18. Catalogue Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, New Bay Area Painting, December 7, 1989 - January 20, 1990. Brochure 1990 Pro Arts Tempspace Gallery, Oakland, CA, Mary Jane Jacob Selects Briscoe, Tomb, Vukelich: The '89 Annual Honored Artists, January 17 - February 17 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Oakland's Artists '90, March 24 - July 1. Catalogue Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA, Contemporary Realist Painting: Perception and Experience, May 30 - July 21 Gallery North, Setauket, NY, Once by the Pacific: California Bay Area Artists, July 1 - August 5 1991 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, New Bay Area Painting II, January 31 - March 2 1992 The Dungeon of Art, Municipal Gallery, Beaver, UT, Daniel Brice/David Tomb/Kathryn Villeneuve, July 23 - August 1 1993 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Bay Area Painting III, January 7-30 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Drawings by American Artists, March 4-27 Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Artists' Self Portraits in Black & White, May 5-29 Turn of the Century Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA, Ship of Dreams: David Tomb & Lewis Meyers, Jr., November 1994 Anya Horvath Gallery, Sacramento, CA, David Tomb, Michael Provart, Chris Fields, January Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, Drawing the Line (curated by Townsend Wolfe), February 28 - April 2 1995 Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Daniel Brice/David Tomb: Recent Drawings, April 6-29 Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Opening Statement, May 1996 K & E Gallery, New York, NY, Heads, July 11 - August 1 William Scott Gallery, Boston, MA, Group Show, November 1997 Sydne Bernard Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, Fantastic Visions, September 19-28 Monterey Museum of Art, La Mirada, CA, Toward the Millennium: Contemporary Painting from Northern California, November 22, 1997 - February 15, 1998 1998 Artists Forum, San Francisco, CA, Landscapes: Real and Imagined, April 23 - June 26. Brochure The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, National Drawing Invitational (curated by Townsend Wolfe), May 7 - June 21. Catalogue Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, Drawings IV, July 11 - September 12 2000 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, Drawings V, July 27 - September 2 Fairfield Center Gallery, Fairfield, CA, Effigies of the Spirit: Bay Area Portraiture, November 16, 2000 - January 19, 2001 2001 Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Recent Acquisitions of California Contemporary Works on Paper, October 27, 2001 - February 24, 2002 2002 The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Trillium Press: Contemporary Prints, January 10 - February 2 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Drawings VI, July 27 - September 7 2003 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Equinox: Bob Burdette, Tom McKee, Barbara Mittman, David Tomb, March 21 - April 15 2004 The William-Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Season Preview Salon, May 28 - June 16