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DAVID WILLIAM CUMMINGS
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
2020 David W. Cummings and Beatrice M. Mady, Dvora Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
David and Beatrice: Hands and Other Symbols The Work of
David W. Cummings and Beatrice M. Mady, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2001 Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1999 Saint John’s University, Jamaica, New York
1996 Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1993 Clinical Center Galleries, N.I.H., Bethesda, Maryland
1991 Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, California
1989 AMB Galleries, Hoboken, New Jersey
1987 Gallery Jupiter, Little Silver, New Jersey
1986 La Petite Galerie, Community Center, Bayonne, New Jersey
1983, 1985 Shahin Requicha Gallery, Rochester, New York
1975, 1977 Gallery Alexandra Monett, Bruxelles, Belgium
1979, 1982
1981 University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1980 Ericson Gallery, New York, New York
1978 Sebastian/Moore Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1974, 1977 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York
1969 Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 "Freddy's World", Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
"Make Me One With Everything", Grifter Gallery, New York, New York
2018 “Group Exhibition”, Rotunda Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
“Group Exhibition”, Bowery Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
2013 “New Beginnings,” Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2009 “Inside Abstraction”, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2008 “30 Years of the Yuma Symposium Exhibitions”, Yuma Art Center Gallery, Yuma, Arizona
2004 “Pattern into Pattern”, OIA, New York School of Law, New York, New York
2001 “Decade”, Eisentrager/Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
1999 “Who I Am”, Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, New Jersey
1996 “Actual Art”, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey
1994 “The Thirty-Seventh Annual”, The Gallery, Barnegate Light, New Jersey
“Small Works”, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey
“Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition”, Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1993 “The Walls at the Hall”, Seton Hall Law School, Newark, New Jersey
“Fellowship Exhibition”, The Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University,
Camden, New Jersey
“New Horizons”, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences,
Love Ladies, New Jersey
1992 “An Extra Dimension”, Nabisco Galleries, East Hanover, New Jersey
“New Jersey Annual”, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey
“Small Works”, Montclair State Art Gallery, Upper Montclair, New Jersey
1990-1991 “Metro Show”, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey (Traveling Exhibition)
1990 “New Jersey Small Works”, Center Gallery, Old Church Cultural Center,
Demarest, New Jersey
1987 “Color Now”, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York
1986 “New Jersey Annual”, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey
1985-1986 “Metro Show”, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey (Traveling Exhibition)
1985 “Primacy of Just Seeing”, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, New York
1984 “Winter Solstice”, Ericson Gallery, New York, New York
“Drawing: New Dimensions”, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
“Rutgers 83/84”, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, New Jersey
1982 “Cloudworks”, Stewart Neill Gallery, New York, New York
Group Show, Cohen Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1981 “Autoportraits”, Gallery Alexandra Monett, Bruxelles, Belgium
1980 “Ten New York Painters”, International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium
1979 “24 x 24”, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York
1978 “America”, Gallery Noire, Paris, France
1977 “Off the Beaten Path”, Potsdam University, Potsdam, New York
“Eight Artist”, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
Group Show, Carmichael Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1976 “Dix Jeunes Americains” Jeugd en Plastische Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
“U.S.A.”, Les Ateliers Du Grand Hornu, Mons, Belgium
“24 x24”, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
1974 “Contemporary American Painting”, Lehigh University, Allentown, Pennsylvania
“National Watercolor Exhibition”, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut
1973 “Image of Movement”, Stamford Museum, Stamford, Connecticut
1972 “New York”, Florida State College, Tallahassee, Florida
1971 “Lyrical Abstraction”, Whitney Museum, New York, New York
“Contemporary Reflections”, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
“Twentieth Century American Artists”, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Twenty-Fifth Exhibition”, Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ohio
1970 “Lyrical Abstraction”, Phoenix Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
“Ultimate Concerns”, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
“Lyrical Abstraction”, Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Group Show, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, New York
1970-1972 “New Work, New York”, American Federation of the Arts (Traveling Exhibition)
1969 “Lyrical Abstraction”, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
COLLECTIONS:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Jeugd en Plastiche Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Phoenix Museum of Fine Arts, Phoenix, Arizona
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
CIGNA Foundation Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Richmond, Virginia
Chase Manhattan Collection, New York, New York
The Port Authority Collection, New York, New York
Chemical National Collection, New York, New York
Citibank Collection, New York, New York
Federal Land Bank Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota
Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
PROFILES, ARTICLES, REVIEWS:
9/19/93 Vivien Raynor. “What New Gallery Members are Doing” The New York Times,
New York, New York
2/5/93 Eileen Watkins. “Art” The Star Ledger, Newark, New Jersey
1/22/93 Jim Beckerman, “Visions of Winter Danced in Their Heads” News Tribune,
Woodbridge, New Jersey
2/20/91 Drew Herman. “Echoes of Chaos at Cabrillo Gallery” Voice, Santa Cruz,
California
2/1/91 Stephen Wiltse. “He Repeats Himself to Make a Point” Santa Cruz Sentinel,
Santa Cruz, California
2/1/87 William Zimmer. “Art” New York Times, New York, New York
7/86 Naomi Kenan. “Cummings’ Work a Symphony of Colors” Gold Coast,
The Jersey Journal, Jersey City, New Jersey
4/28/83 Susan Dodge Peters. “A Master of Color” City News, Rochester, New York
3/26/82 Jacques Meuris. “David Cummings: la vraie croix?” La Libre Belgique,
Brussels, Belgium
7/11/82 James Mills. “Intricate Look at New Visions”, The Denver Post,
Denver, Colorado
3/82 Jos Kuaepen. “David Cummings-The Discovery of the True Cross”
The Bulletin, Brussels, Belgium
9/10/80 Theodore F. Wolff. “The Colorist’s Art” The Christian Science Monitor,
New York, New York
7/25/80 Barbara Hurwick, “Nature’s Palette” Vail Trail, Vail, Colorado
11/79 Jacques Meuris. “David Cummings” +-0 Fluxus International, Vol.28
5/18/79 Jacques Meuris. “David Cummings” La Libre Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
4/4/78 Viola Herms Drath. “Die personliche Handschrift Zahlt” Handelsblatt,
Köln, Germany
4/13/78 Katherine Chaffee. “Painting, the New and Not So New” The Straight Creek
Journal, Denver, Colorado
3/22/77 Jacques Meuris. “David Cummings et Joseph Kurhajec” La Libre Belgique,
Bruxelles, Belgium
3/18/77 Henri van Lier. “Reve Americain” La Relere, Ghent, Belgium
1/22/76 Jacques Meuris. “Dix Jeunes Americains” La Libre Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
5/29/71 David Shirey. “Lyrical Abstraction at the Whitney” New York Times, New York,
New York
2/71 “New work: New York and Santa Barbara” Art Week
9/71 “Lyrical Abstraction” Art International
4/16/70 Noel Frackman. “To the Romantic” Patent Trader, Mount Kisco, New York
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
1985, 1991 Painting Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
1966-1967 Woods Foundation Fellowship, University of Nebraska
1963 Printmaking Grant, Ford Foundation
1961 –1963 Scholarship, Kansas City Art Institute
VISITING ARTIST AND GUEST POSITIONS:
1991 Cabrillo College, Aptos, California
1988 Arizona Western University, Yuma, Arizona
1984 State University of New York, Purchase, New York
1983 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
1982 University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota
1975-1978 Summer Vail Workshop, Colorado Mountain College,
1979-1984 Vail, Colorado
1975, 1978 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1977 Pittsburgh State College, Pittsburgh, Kansas
1977 Atmore School System, Atmore, Alabama
1976 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1974 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
EDUCATION:
M.F.A., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design, Kansas City, Missouri
Mexico City College, Mexico City, Mexico