born: June 1956,
Champaign, Illinois
exhibitions: 'Five Minute God', Video Installation, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring,
MD, VIAP Galerie, Heerlen, Netherlands, 'Personal Geometry', Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA , 'Monterey Rising', Anton Gallery at the Hawthorne Mansion, Monterey, CA 'Deja Vu' a new view, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. 'Faces of the Fallen', Women's Memorial, Arlington National Cemetary, Arlington, VA. Faculty Painting Exhibition, Marymount Univ., Arlington, VA. 'Artomatic', H and 3rd St. NE, Washington, DC. 'A
Language of Pattern, Mali as Medium' McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA. 'Time Meditations' Korean Embassy Cultural Service, Wash, DC. 'Take Me to the River' MAC, Wash, DC. 'Abstract and Digital' Washington Gas HQs, Wash, DC. 'New Works' Yunnan Art Institute, Kunming, PRC. 'Infinite Interior' Anton Gallery,
Wash, DC. Dakar Bienale 2000, Dakar, Senegal. 'Fishing the Stream of Conciousness', AAC, Arlington, VA. 'Tashkent Bienale 2001' Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
DFA(District Fine Arts), Wash, DC.
cultural exchanges
and festivals: 'Firewave', collaboration with PiT Brussel and Ashraf Fouad, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, 'Take Me to the River', Wichita Falls
Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, Texas'Take Me to the River' Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa, International Contemporary Festival 'Process as Space' Balchik, Bulgaria. 'Take Me to the River' Cairo,
Egypt. 'Cultural Exchange' Academy of Art, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 'Arlington Meets Aachen' Aachen, Germany. 'Continental Drift' West Africa -
Washington, Wash DC. Asilah Arts Festival, Asilah, Morocco. Most Group, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan.
bio: In 1996, David took a teaching position at the Yunnan Art Institute in Kunming, China, staying for 5 months. There he came face to face with another point of view that differed from his own. It was during this time that he began to understand how he could intuitively channel his experience of another culture through the creative process. The lessons learned from that experience still resonate today as he has participated in artist exhanges with Central Asia, West Africa, and North Africa and Europe. He has had 15 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows since 1988. His works have been shown in the Pretoria Art Museum, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Ludwig Forum, John Cabot University, Korean Embassy Cultural Service, Yacine Art Gallery, Asilah Arts Festival and the Washington Project for the Arts. Numerous works are included in local, national and international collections. Since 2000, David has shown his digital videos in venues from Senegal, Egypt and South Africa to Washington, DC. He has taught design, drawing and painting for 19 years at Marymount University, private companies and local art enrichment programs. He has served on the Board of Directors for non profit organizations including the Central Asian Cultural Exchange (President 2002-06) and the Arlington Arts Center.
for info contact: davidcarlson@starpower.net
(703) 536-5672
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