David Askevold › CV
David Askevold
1940-2008
Education
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1968
Brooklyn Museum School of Art (Max Beckman Painting Scholarship), 1964
University of Montana, 1963
Teaching Positions
1991-92, Nova Scotia College of Art Design, Halifax, NS
1985-87, NSCAD, Halifax, NS
1984-85, Minneapolis College of Art Design, Minneapolis, MN
1981-83, York University, Downsview, Ontario
1979-80, Art Center, College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1977-78, California Institute of Art, Valencia, CA
1976-78, University of California, Irving, CA
1968-74, NSCAD, Halifax, NS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
David Askevold: "Once Upon a Time in the East", Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
David Askevold: "Once Upon a Time in the East", Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
David Askevold: "Once Upon a Time in the East", Confederation Centre of the
Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
David Askevold: "Once Upon a Time on the East", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
“Three Easy Pieces" and "Sixteen Candles", CANADA, NYC
"Three Easy Pieces", Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Immediate Landscape, CANADA, New York, NY
The Burning Bush, The Burned Bush, The Bush Trap, Mandarin, Los Angeles, CA
Two Hanks, Wynick/Tuck, Toronto, Ontario
Two Hanks, Kling Bang Galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland
Two Hanks, CANADA, New York, NY
What is Church Two Hanks, Articule, Montreal, Quebec
New Works Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
New Pictures and Older Videos selected videos 1970-1994 Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Cultural Geographies, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
Cultural Geographies, Confederation Centre Art Gallery Museum, Charlottetown, PEI
Video from the 80's Articule Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
Paradise Burning, Clock Tower Gallery PS1 New York, NY
Selected Works, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Velville's Visit, Juncar/Kulenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selective Survey Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
Selected Works, University of California Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
Notes from Lisbon and Other Works, Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Four Notes Through a Wall and Into the Grass, Gallery Francoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
Kepler, Kohoutek Other Occurrences, John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY
Concert Tone Compressions, Art Project, Amsterdam, Holland
Twin Hills, Gallery Paul Maenz, Koln, Germany
Video Film, Jack Wendler Gallery, London, England
Tuning Fork Concert, K.P.F.A. Radio, Berkeley, CA
Multi Media Installation, NSCAD Messanine Gallery, Halifax, NS
Selected Group Shows
Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of Calarts, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Trees in the Forest curated by Kari Rittenbach Yale Union, Portland
Dead Ends curated by Kari Rittenbach 1001 44th Rd, Long Island City, NYC
REBEL REBEL Museum of Contemporary Arts, Grand-Hornu, Belgium
Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
Littoral Documents, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI
7th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Seventies: Art in Question, Musee de' art contemporian de Bordeaux, France
Video Primer, Art Gallery of Ontario Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON
Just the Facts? The Canadian Museum of C ontemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
In the Realm of the Phantoms: Photography and the Appartiions, Stadtisches
Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany, Kunstalle Krems, Austria
Fotomuseum, Wintethur, Switzerland
Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965-1975, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Temporary
Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Conceptual Art: The NSCAD Connection 1967-1973, Anna Leonowens
Gallery,Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
Northern Lights, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Vancouver SkyTrain, ‘Transpositions’, Vancouver, BC
From Sea to Shining Sea, Power Plant, Toronto, ON
Artist and Camera, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England (traveling exhibition)
Narrative Ar’, Groningen Museum, Groningen, Holland
Commune Di Milano, Text/Visual, Milan, Italy
Story, Narrative Ar’, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
Documenta, Kassel, Germany
The Artist and the Photograph, Israel Museum, (2nd Triennial of Photography) Jerusalem, Israel
Project 74, Wallraf-Richarz Museum, Koln, Germany
Sound Works, The Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco CA
3,549,000 Center of Art and Communication, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Selected Bibliography
Askevold, David. (exhibition catalog) Eindhoven, Holland: Stedelijk Van
AbbeMuseum 1980. Essays by Frederick Dolan, Peggy Gale Alan Sondheim, texts and images by David Askevold.
Bruce Barber, Conceptual Art: The NSCAD Connection 1967-1973, (exhibition catalogue) pp.17, 18, 19, 38, 39
Collins, James, Art Forum, 12 (March 1974) pp. 74-75
Coomer, Martin, "CANADA", Time Out London, April 11, 2006
Documenta VII. (exhibition catalog) Kassel, Germany, 1977.
Dolan, Fred, "David Askevold: Political Modernism and Postmodernity."
Vanguard, #17 (February 1988), pp. 19-22
Extra, Cologne, Germany. #4 (April, 1975) Special issue on David Askevold, bibliography, exhibition chronology, documentation of works from1968-1975.
Flash Art, 38 (January 1974), p.7. documentaion and text by David Askevold, bibliography, exhibition chronology, documentation of works.
Glueck, Grace, "Action/Performance and the Photograph", The New York Times, April 7, 2000
Knight, Christopher, "Playing Around with Pictures", Los Angeles Times, March 4 (illus.)2005
Krauss, Rosalind. ‘Notes on the Index: Seventies Artin America’ October #3, (Spring 1976), pp. 68-81. Reprinted in ‘The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths’. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 1987.
Goldstein, Ann, and Anne Rommimer, "Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-75 (exhibition catalogue) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles and the publishers Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1996.
The Journal, A Contemporary Art Magazine, Journal’s 40th Issue, LAICA’s Ten Year Catalog, Number 40, Vol.4, Fall 1984, "The Poltergeist" (a collaboration with Mike Kelley) pp. 57-59, Los Angeles, CA
Liberal Art University Experiences. David Askevold in Conversation with Paul McMahon 3 pg. presentations of game and film pieces: Studio International 183 (April 1972) pp. 156-159.
Lippard, Lucy. ‘Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972’.New York: Praeger, 1973.
Loers, Veit, "Mediumististische oder Psychedelische Fotografie? Der Psi-Efekt im Konzeptualismus, Im Reich der Phantome, (In the Realm of the Phantom) fall, 1998, (exhibition catalogue) p. 149, plates 225, 226, 228, 230
Myers, Holly, "Exploring the Dawn of Digital Expression, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 27, 2001
Narrative Art (exhibition catalog). Bonn, Germany: Booner Kunsteverein, 1979.
Oursler, Tony and Mike Kelley, “In the Weave of Reason”. ARTFORUM, Summer, 2008
Rosenberg, Karen. "Three Easy Pieces", The New York Times, March 7, 2008
Smith, Roberta. "Two Hanks", The New York Times, June 6, 2005
Sondheim, Alan, ed. ‘Individuals: Post Movement Art in America’. New York: Dutton Books, 1977.
Stacey, Robert, and Liz Wylie. ‘Eighty/Twenty - 100 years of the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design’ (exhibition catalog). Halifax, Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia, 1988.Video by Artists, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1975. Includes David Askevold’s "Notes for Explanation and Attitude"
Public Collections
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Canada
Art Center College of Design. Pasadena, CA
Art Metropole. Toronto, Canada
Canada Council Art Bank. Ottawa
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Ottawa
Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum. Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada
Long Beach Museum of Art. Long Beach, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles, CA
National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa
National Public Library. Ottawa
Van AbbeMuseum. Eindhoven, Holland
Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, BC, Canada
Art Gallery of Windsor. Windsor, Ontario, Canada