114 Stowe Mountain Road • Halifax, Vermont 05358 • 802-558-3150 • [email protected] www.davidbrewsterfineart.com DAVID B. BREWSTER
EDUCATION
1993 Art Teaching Certification | Moore College of Art | Philadelphia, PA 1988 Master of Fine Arts | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA 1985 Bachelor of Fine Arts | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, MD
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
1980-1982 Leo Marchutz School | Aix-en-Provence, France 1979-1980 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 Guest Artist and Lecturer | L’Atelier au Chateau | Mussy Sur Seine, France 2019, 2013 Guest Artist and Lecturer | Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, MD 2018 Guest Artist and Lecturer | Gilman School | Baltimore, MD 2014 Guest Artist and Lecturer | Assumption College | Bangkok, Thailand 2014, 2013 Guest Artist and Lecturer | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA 2013 Guest Artist and Lecturer | Towson University | Baltimore, MD 2010-present Founder | Windy Mowing Artist Residency | Halifax, MA 2009 Guest Artist and Lecturer | Marlboro College | Marlboro, VT 2007-2008 Artist-In-Residence, Painting & Drawing | Milton Academy | Milton, MA 2006, 2003 Art Professor, Painting & Drawing | Deep Springs College | Deep Springs, CA 2006 Guest Artist & Lecturer | St. Andrew’s School | Middletown, DE 2005 Guest Lecturer, Graham Gund Series | Westminster School | Simsbury, CT 2003-2005 Instructor, AP Drawing & Oil Painting | Deerfield Academy | Deerfield, MA 1995-2000 Instructor, AP Oil Painting & Art History | Pomfret School | Pomfret, CT 1991-1994 Adjunct Professor, Perceptual Drawing | Community College of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA 1989-1993 Instructor, Oil & Watercolor Painting | Kimberton Waldorf School | Kimberton, PA 1989 Adjunct Professor, Figural & Perceptual Drawing | University of Maryland | College Park, MD 114 Stowe Mountain Road • Halifax, Vermont 05358 • 802-558-3150 • [email protected] www.davidbrewsterfineart.com DAVID B. BREWSTER FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Fellowship 2017 Commissioned Artist “Structure and Perspective: David Brewster Explores Maryland’s Social Landscape” | Maryland Historical Society | Baltimore, MD 2011 Commissioned Artist “Joseph Wharton, 1826-1909: Ironmaster, Innovator and Educator” | The Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA Grant Recipient | Vermont Community Foundation | Middlebury, VT 2009 Commissioned Artist | The Art of Action: Shaping Vermont’s Future Through Art | Vermont Arts Council | Montpelier, VT Commissioned Artist | James Carey’s Baltimore 1759-1832 | WP Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD 2008 Grant Recipient, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Great Barrington, MA Best in Show Award | Silvermine Guild’s 59th annual juried Art of the Northeast | New Canaan, CT 2007 Mary Van Hughes Award | Silvermine Guild’s 58th annual juried Art of the Northeast | New Canaan, CT Commissioned Artist | permanent installation at Department of Public Safety facility | St. Albans, VT Grant Recipient | Puffin Foundation | Teaneck, NJ Grant Recipient | Vermont Arts Council | Montpelier, VT 2006 Grant Recipient | The Pollock-Krasner Foundation | New York, NY 1994, 1996-1998, 2004-05 Fellowship | Ballinglen Arts Foundation | Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland 2002, 1993 The Klots Residency Program | Rochefort-en-Terre, Malansac, France 1998 Excellence in Teaching Award – Travel to Portugal | Pomfret School | Pomfret, CT 114 Stowe Mountain Road • Halifax, Vermont 05358 • 802-558-3150 • [email protected] www.davidbrewsterfineart.com DAVID B. BREWSTER SOLO EXHIBITS
2018 Gross McCleaf | Rogue Waves | Philadelphia, PA Maryland Historical Society | Structure and Perspective | Baltimore, MD Chase Young Gallery | Urban Pastoral | Boston, MA 2016 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Wilson Museum | Quixotic Encounters | Manchester, VT A.P.E. Gallery | Magnetic Circuitries | Northampton, MA 2015 Chase Young Gallery | Powerline | Boston, MA 2014 Gross McCleaf Gallery | Temples, Gables and Thunder | Philadelphia, PA 2013 C. Grimaldis Gallery | Dick Turpin: The Spurious Highwayman - Recent Paintings | Baltimore, MD Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Confluence | Philadelphia, PA 2012 Wharton, UPenn | Joseph Wharton, 1826-1909: Ironmaster, Innovator and Educator | Philadelphia, PA 2011 Gross McCleaf Gallery | Celebrating Twenty Years, 1991–2011 | Philadelphia, PA 2010 C. Grimaldis Gallery | Conflagration | Baltimore, MD Garret Jacobs Mansion | James Carey of Loudon 1751–1834 | Baltimore, MD 2008 Walter Wickiser Gallery | Irrepressible Storm | New York, NY 2007 Nesto Gallery | David Brewster: Paintings | Milton Academy | Milton, MA 2006 C. Grimaldis Gallery | Recent Paintings | Baltimore, MD Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library | Recent Paintings | Northampton, MA Gross McCleaf Gallery | Roiling Light | Philadelphia, PA Warner Gallery | Recent Paintings | St. Andrew’s School | Middletown, DE 2005 Charles P. Russell Gallery | Recent Paintings | Deerfield Academy | Deerfield, MA 2004 C. Grimaldis Gallery | Recent Paintings | Baltimore, MD 2003 Reeves Contemporary | Deep Springs | New York, NY Gross McCleaf Gallery | Recent Paintings | Philadelphia, PA 2002 Spheris Gallery of Fine Art | Paysage du Morbihan | New York, NY C. Grimaldis Gallery | Brittany ~ Vermont | Baltimore, MD 2001 Gross McCleaf Gallery | New Territory | Philadelphia, PA 2000 Spheris Gallery of Fine Art | Recent Paintings | New York, NY C. Grimaldis Gallery | Recent Paintings | Baltimore MD 1999 The Armory | Works on Paper | New York, NY Gross McCleaf Gallery | Recent Paintings | Philadelphia, PA Spheris Gallery of Fine Art | Recent Paintings | Walpole, NH 1998 C. Grimaldis Gallery | Recent Paintings | Baltimore, MD 1997 Gross McCleaf Gallery | Recent Paintings | Philadelphia, PA C. Grimaldis Gallery | Recent Paintings | Baltimore, MD 1996 Gross McCleaf Gallery | Recent Paintings | Philadelphia, PA 1994 Gross McCleaf Gallery, | Recent Paintings | Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art | Visiting Artist Program | Philadelphia, PA Middlesex School | Living as an Urban Landscape Painter | Concord, MAincluding an Historic Bartram’s Gardens | Industrial Landscapes | Philadelphia, PA 1992 Gross McCleaf Gallery | Recent Paintings | Philadelphia, PA GROUP EXHIBITS
2019 Wilson Museum (SVAC) | Contemporary American Regionalism | Manchester, VT Mattatuck Museum | Mixed Master | Waterbury, CT 2016 C. Grimaldis Gallery | Landscapes into Art | Baltimore, MD Chase Young Gallery | Summer Group Show | Boston, MA Gross McCleaf Gallery | Group Show | Philadelphia, PA 2015 Chase Young Gallery | Winter Group Show | Boston, MA Noyes Museum of Art | M | I | C | A | | THEN / NOW | Oceanville, NJ New Britain Museum | Nor’Easter: The 45th Annual Juried Members Exhibition | New Britain, CT Von Auersperg Gallery | Deerfield Faculty: Past and Present | Deerfield, MA 2014 Chase Young Gallery | Group Show | Boston, MA 2013 Kunsthalle Beacon (KuBe) | M | I | C | A | | THEN / NOW | Beacon, NY Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art | La Lumière Fantastique: Brittany Shines in Baltimore | Baltimore, MD 2012 Brattleboro Museum and Art Center | Vermont Collects: Selections from the Heller Family | Brattleboro, VT 2010 Vermont Arts Council | Art of Action, Shaping Vermont’s Future through Art | year-long traveling exhibition, VT 2009 Hargate Gallery, St. Paul’s School | Larger Than Life | Concord, VT Shelburne Farms | Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered | Shelburne, VT National Arts Club | Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered | New York, NY The Boston Public Library | Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered | Boston, MA Southern Vermont Arts Center | Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered | Manchester, VT The Vermont State House | Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered | Boston, MA Gross McCleaf Gallery | The Resonance of Place | Philadelphia, PA C. Grimaldis Gallery | Landscapes into Art | Baltimore, MD 2008 Gerald Peters Gallery | Counter Balance | New York, NY Silvermine Art Guild | 59th Annual Juried Group Exhibit: Art of the Northeast | New Canaan, CT Spheris Gallery | Great Rivers Art Institute | Hanover, NH 2007 Silvermine Art Guild | 58th Annual Juried Group Exhibit: Art of the Northeast | New Canaan, CT Circle Gallery | 7th Annual Juried American Landscapes Exhibition | Maryland Federation of Art | Annapolis, MD William Baczek Gallery | Annual Landscape Invitational | Northampton, MA 2006 Concord Art Association | The Artist in Rural Ireland: American Artists at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation | Concord, MA 2005 U.S. Ambassador’s Residence | Art in Embassies Program | Dublin, Ireland 2004 Berman Museum of Art | The Expressionistic Gesture | Collegeville, PA 2003 McMullin Museum of Art | Eire / Land | Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA Musée du Château de Rochefort-en-terre | 40 Peintres Americains | Rochefort-en-terre, France 2002 Brattleboro Museum | American River | Brattleboro, VT T.W. Wood Museum | American River | Montpelier, VT Philadelphia Art Alliance | American River | Philadelphia, PA Florence Griswold Museum | American River | Old Lyme, CT Maryland Federation of Art | Art On Paper Exhibition | Annapolis, MD Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts | Landscapes – Mindscapes | Loveladies, NJ 2000 The Currier Gallery of Art | New England Views: Real and Imagined | Manchester, NH Musée Granet | L’école Marchutz, 25 ans | Aix-en-Provençe, France The Noyes Museum of Art | Ambience and Energy | Oceanville, NJ 1998 Philadelphia Art Alliance | Through the Heart of the City: The Schuykill River as Source | Philadelphia, PA 1997 The Butler Institute of American Art | National Mid-Year Exhibition | Youngstown, OH 1996 Bernard Toale Gallery | Small Landscape Invitational | Boston, MA Smith College Museum of Art | Drawing Invitational | Northampton, MA 1995 Prince Street Gallery | Still Life Invitational | New York, NY Gettysburg College | Four Philadelphia Artists | Harrisburg, PA The Butler Institute of American Art | National Mid-Year Exhibition | Youngstown, OH 1994 Philadelphia Art Alliance | Expressions of Contemporary Ireland: The Artist in Rural Ireland | Philadelphia, PA Gregg Conference Center Gallery | A Diversity of Views | Bryn Mawr, PA 1990 Philadelphia Museum of Art | Philadelphia Art Now | Philadelphia, PA 114 Stowe Mountain Road • Halifax, Vermont 05358 • 802-558-3150 • [email protected] www.davidbrewsterfineart.com DAVID B. BREWSTER PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Ballinglen Archive at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation | Ballycastle, Ireland Bartrum’s Garden | Philadelphia, PA Bennington Museum of Art | Bennington, VT Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives | Berkeley, CA Brown Advisory | Baltimore, MD Capitol Funding | Baltimore, MD Charles E. Russell Collection, Deerfield Academy | Deerfield, MA Chase Brexton Health Services | Baltimore, MD Connecticut College | New London, CT Crowell Gallery | Newfane, VT Deep Springs College | Deep Springs, CA Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA Forbes Library | Northampton, MA Florence Griswold Museum | Old Lyme, CT Hamilton Street Club | Baltimore, MD Homewood House Museum | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD Independent Educational Services | Alexandria, VA Johns Hopkins Carey Business School | Baltimore, MD Jury Hotel | Boston, MA Little Cranberry Island Park Museum | Ilseford, ME Lyman Allyn Museum | New London, CT Manchester Chamber of Commerce | Manchester, VT Maryland Club | Baltimore MD Maryland Center for History and Culture | Baltimore MD Maryland State Archives, Governor’s Mansion | Annapolis MD Meditech | Boston, MA Michele & Donald D’Amour Collection, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts | Springfield MA Middlesex School | Concord, MA Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) | Bangkok, Thailand National Museum of Industry | Bethlehem, PA Orton Foundation | Manchester, VT Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College | Collegeville, PA PMC Property Group | Philadelphia, PA Price Waterhouse Coopers | Boston, MA Princeton University Art Museum | Princeton, NJ The Reeves Center, Washington and Lee University | Lexington, VA Robert Hull Fleming Museum | Burlington, VT Southern Vermont Medical Center | Bennington, VT Southern Vermont Art Center | Manchester, VT St. Albans Department of Public Safety | St. Albans, VT The State Museum | Harrisburg, PA Stroud Water Research Center | Unionville, PA Van Pelt Library | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA Vermont Law School | South Royalton, VT Vermont State House | Montpelier, VT Wharton Business School | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA Woodmere Art Museum | Philadelphia, PA 114 Stowe Mountain Road • Halifax, Vermont 05358 • 802-558-3150 • [email protected] www.davidbrewsterfineart.com DAVID B. BREWSTER SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Amore, B. | Art Out of the Ordinary | Art New England | Nov/Dec 2016 | p 14
Amore, B. | The Artist’s Voice | The Times Argus & Rutland Herald | April 21-22, 2018 | p D10, D10
Bowers, J. | Manic Expression, Baltimorean David Brewster Brings Uneven Zeal to his Bleak Scenes | Baltimore City Paper | December 15, 2004 | p 56
Brewster, David, Tom Seit, ed | The Explosive Landscape | Artist Magazine | November 2003 | pp 56-61
Celebrating Twenty Years: 1991-2011 (exhibition catalogue) | Gross McCleaf Gallery: Philadelphia, PA, 2011 | essay by Sharon Ewing, Gallery Director, Gross McCleaf
Contemporary Philadelphia Artists (exhibition catalogue) | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Philadelphia, PA | 1990 | pp 93,138
David Brewster: Deep Springs (exhibition catalogue) | Reeves Contemporary | New York, NY | 2003 | essay by Gary Gossen, Dean of Academic Affairs, Deep Springs College
David Brewster: Irrepressible Storm (exhibition catalogue) | Walter Wickiser Gallery | New York, NY | 2008 | essay by Edward Lucie-Smith, writer, poet and art critic
David Brewster: New Paintings (exhibition catalogue) | C. Grimaldis Gallery: Baltimore, MD, 2005 | essay by S. Lane Faison, Professor Emeritus, History of Art, Williams College
David Brewster, New Paintings | Baltimore City Paper (Critic’s Choice | November 24, 2004.
David Brewster: New Territory (exhibition catalogue) | Gross McCleaf Gallery | Philadelphia, PA | 2001 | essay by Gerrit Henry, art critic, author and poet
David Brewster: Quixotic Encounters, Vermont Paintings 1996-2016 (exhibition catalogue) | Wilson Museum, Southern Vermont Arts Center | Manchester, VT | 2016 | essays by Charlie Hunter and Anne Neely
David Brewster: Roiling Light (exhibition catalogue) | The Warner Gallery at St. Andrew’s School | Middletown, DE | 2006 | essay by John McGiff, Art Department Chair, St. Andrew’s School
Dorsey, John | Lively Works Bursting with Joyfulness | The Baltimore Sun (Today) | December 15, 1998 | p 2
Giuliano, Mike | At Grimaldis, Brewster Lets It Flow | Baltimore Messenger (Lifetimes) | December 16, 2004 | p 12
Giuliano, Mike | Calm with a Camera, Saah and Brewster Focus on a Subdued Approach in Exhibit at Baltimore Gallery | The Arbutus Times (Arts) | December 27, 2006 | p 26
Giuliano, Mike | Swirling Landscapes, Everyday Joy | Baltimore Sun (Lifetimes) | December 2000
Henry, Gerrit | David Brewster at Spheris | Art in America | September 2000 | p 153
Hooper, Lauren | Baltimore, Re-imagined | Baltimore Style Magazine | June 2010 | p 24
James Carey of Loudon, 1751-1834: The Pastoral Surroundings of a Country Seat and Baltimore Town (commission catalogue) | Johns Hopkins Carey Business School | Baltimore, MD | 2010 | essays by William J. Evitts, writer, and Mike Giuliano, journalist SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (CONT)
Joseph Wharton, 1826-1909: Ironmaster, Innovator and Educator (commission catalogue) | The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | 2012 | essays by Stuart Shils, painter, and Josh Green, writer
Landry, Peter | Honoring History, Industry, and the River Running Through It | The Philadelphia Inquirer | June 17, 1994 | p b5
Mandell, Pamela | Haunted Places and Unsettling Landscapes | Art New England | June/July 2008 | pp 6, 14
Mangravite, Andrew | David Brewster Returns With New England Expressions | Philadelphia Weekly (Art Matters) | December/January | 1999-2000 | p 9
Mangravite, Andrew | David Brewster’s Diary of Desolation | Welcomat (Philadelphia) | January 1992
Mangravite, Andrew | The Beauty of Urban Waste | Welcomat (Philadelphia) | January 1994
McKown, Rich | New England Views, Real and Imagined—The 2000 Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition | Art New England | December/January | 2000-2001 | pp 43-44
McNatt, Glenn | David Brewster Keeps it Unreal in Grimaldis Show | The Baltimore Sun | December 16, 2004 | p 15t
McQuaid, Cate | A Beat Artist’s Graceful Fascination with Form, Bold Expression | The Boston Globe | October 11, 2007 | p c9
McQuaid, Cate | Myths, velocity, shadows evoked in local galleries | The Boston Globe | November 10, 2015
Mellen, Kathleen | David Brewster, Landscape Painter | Hampshire Life Magazine | June 24-30, 2016 | p 5
Melton, Paula | Alla Prima David Brewster | Artscope | September/October 2010 | p 37
Newhall Edith | Works of Roiling Paint | Philadelphia Enquirer | November 2, 2018
A River Runs Through It | American Artist | July 2003 | pp 68-69
Schreur, Robert | Brewster’s Dozens, Grimaldis Show Reflects Painter’s Productivity, Muscular Style | Baltimore City Paper | December 23, 1998
Seidel, Miriam | Clashing Planes | The Philadelphia Inquirer | December 24, 1999
Smith, Tim | Art Provocateur | The Baltimore Sun | Dec 31, 2017 | p 1, 4
Smith, Tim | Fiery Art | The Baltimore Sun | May 7, 2010 | p 11
Sozanski, Edward J | His Landscapes Are Not Nostalgic Trips | The Philadelphia Inquirer | December 21, 2003
Thorton, Clara Rose | Defining Heart and Soul: David Brewster and the Art of Action | Southern Vermont Arts & Living | Summer 2009
Thorton, Clara Rose | On David Brewster | Artscope | March/April 2011 | pp 12-13
Tyrol, Adelaide | The Outdoor Palette | Northern Woodlands Magazine | Spring 2011 | p 75