Dave McDermott was born in 1974 in Santa Cruz, USA and obtained his BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco (2004) and his Masters of Fine Arts at the Parsons School of Design in 2007. Dave McDermott was awarded residencies at Frans Masareel Centrum in Belgium (2008) and the Zabludowicz Collection in Sarvisalo, Finland (2010).
McDermott's paintings, drawings, and collages draw their imagery and ideas from historical material, documents, books, and ephemera. His enigmatic compositions of cultural signifiers and modernist aesthetics are at once elegant and evocative.
Selected solo and duo exhibitions include Pleasure Centre, Twig - Brussels, BE (2012); Black Medicine (w/ Nick van Woert), Room East - New York, NY (2012); A Rake’s Progress, Grimm - Amsterdam, NL (2011); The Modern Temper, Duve Berlin - Berlin, DE (2011); and Until I Know The Pattern (w/ Timothy Hull), Bucheon Gallery- San Francisco, CA (2007).
Selected Group Exhibitions include Tailgates and Substitues, Thierry Goldberg, New York, NY (2012); Cover Version | LP, BAM, Brooklyn, NY (2011); Comedy & Tragedy, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY (2010); Burn, Baby, Burn!, Duve Berlin, Berlin, DE (2009); Hi, Low And In Between, Grimm, Amsterdam, NL (2009); Cover Version; Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA (2008); If I Told You You Were Beautiful, Would You Date Me On The Regular, Oliver Kamm, New York, NY (2008); and Deluge, Bucheon Gallery- San Francisco, CA (2006).
The artist currently works and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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