About
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Nature has always been the thread that sews my paintings together. Instead of being a part of nature, we see ourselves as existing in tandem with it: separate but together. This is, of course, an illusion. The complexities of our relationship with nature are infinite and they run the gamut from peaceful to the sublime and from pleasant to the horrifying. My work explores the many levels of our relationship with nature and seeks to convey the visceral emotions that come about when we are reminded of just how connected to our environment we truly are.
bio
David Pettibone is a figurative painter. He received his BFA in painting from The Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from The New York Academy of Art. He regularly exhibits and has taught painting and drawing at various schools and institutions in both New York City and Alaska.
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EDUCATION:
New York Academy of Art
MFA Painting, May 2007, New York, NY
Rhode Island School of Design
BFA Painting, May 2003, Providence, RI
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
University of Alaska, Kachemak Bay Campus, Homer
Drawing and Painting 2018-current, Homer, AK
University of Alaska, Anchorage
Beginning Drawing, Intermediate Drawing, Figure Drawing I & II, Beginning Painting, Intermediate Painting, Advanced Painting. 2015-2018, Anchorage, AK
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
Drawing, Oil Painting, Watercolor, Plein Air Painting, 2016-2017, Anchorage, AK
Marymount Manhattan College
Painting II, Advanced Painting, Color Theory and Design, Figure Drawing I & II. 2010-2014, New York, NY
Brooklyn College
Adjunct Faculty, Painting 1, Fall and Spring Semester. 2008-2009, Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS & GRANTS:
The New York Academy of Art Fellowship, 2007-2008
The Walter Erlebacher Award for Outstanding Work in Anatomy, 2007
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, 2005
SELECT SOLO SHOWS:
The Whale as a Dish Paintings, Cyrano’s Out North Gallery, Anchorage,
AK. 2018
Year With a Tree, Homer Council on the Arts, Homer, AK. 2018
Observed Faces, UAA Arc Gallery, Anchorage, AK. 2017
Year With a Tree, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK. 2017
Chapter 65, The Whale as a Dish, International Gallery of Contemporary
Art, Anchorage, AK. 2016
Beekeepers, Portland Masonic, Portland, ME. 2015
SELECT GROUP SHOWS:
Draw North, IGCA, Anchorage, AK. 2019
Birds on the Edge, IGCA, Anchorage, AK. 2019
ACES Mural Project, Church of Love, Anchorage, AK. 2019
All Alaska Biennial, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK. 2019
Intercurrents: The Alaska Treaty of Cession, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, AK. 2018
Natural Proclivities, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY. 2018
Duos: Alaskan Creative Couples, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK. 2018
Intercurrents: The Alaska Treaty of Cession, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK. 2017
Winter Scene, Becky Gallery, Anchorage, AK. 2017
Sight Seer, Fox Gallery, New York, NY. 2016
All Alaska Biennial, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK. 2016
Fall Exhibition, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME. 2015
Art Miami NYC, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. 2015
RESIDENCIES:
McKinley Chalet Resort AIR, August 2016. Denali National Park, Alaska
Dumfries House Residency, August 2014- September 2014. Scotland, U.K.
Barrow Arctic Science Consortium, April 2013- November 2013. Utqiagvik, AK
New York Academy of Art Fellowship, 2008. New York, NY
Skopelos Foundation of the Arts, 2005. Skopelos, Greece
RISD, European Honors Program, 2001-2002 Rome, Italy
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS:
• Stefanie Laufersweiler, “Turning Routine Into Ritual: Painting a lone tree in the Alaskan wilderness for one year changed this artist’s outlook and art.”, Plein Air Magazine, April/May 2018
• Jean Bundy, “Art Sleuth: Top Ten Art Picks for 2017”, Anchorage Press, January 4, 2018
• Riva Symko, “Does the Sublime Know Change? Updating Landscape for the Anthropocene.”, Momus, December 6, 2017
• Jean Bundy, “Art Sleuth: ‘Year With a Tree’ by David Pettibone”, Anchorage Press, December 5, 2017
• Charles Wohlforth, “Looking At a Single Tree, A Painter Sees Alaska In a New Way”, Anchorage Daily News, October 30, 2017
• Ammon Swenson, “‘Observed Faces’ Coming to the Arc Gallery”, The Northern Light, October 23, 2017
• Anchorage Museum, “An Art Arboretum”, Museum Journal, November 21, 2017
• Trek Lexington, “Trek Lexington in Conversation With David Pettibone”, The Blue Review, February 22, 2017
• Abra Patkotak, “Artist, College Collaborate to Put Kids in the Studio”, The Arctic Sounder, September 14, 2013
• New American Paintings, Northeast Region, 2013
• Ragnar Anderson, “Greenpoint Artist”, greenpointers.com, September 19, 2012
• Sarah Forbes, curator of Museum of Sex, “What is Going On with All the Censored Art?”, curatorofsex.com, January 12, 2011
• Critics’ Pick, Time Out New York, January 14, 2011 Jeffery Wiener, “Censored Artworks”, TheGreatNude.tv, January 14, 2011