David Askevold
David Askevold ( born March 30, 1940 in Conrad Montana, † 23 January, 2008 Halifax ) was an American- Canadian concept and video artist as well as a recognized art professor.
- 2.1 Solo Exhibitions
- 2.2 Group Exhibitions
Life and work
Askevold was born in 1940 in Montana, and studied anthropology and art at the university there. To pay for his studies, he sold in his store landscape paintings and pottery for his fellow students. In his early years he was heavily influenced by Kandinskis font: Concerning the Spiritual in Art. In particular, in the painting. Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were his favorite painter.
When Max Beckmann Scholarship for studied painting in 1963 at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art in New York. Until 1966 he lived in Brooklyn, and Manhattan, where in the bookstore of the Museum of Modern Art, he worked for several years. During this time he became acquainted with the works by Ad Reinhardt, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg. In 1968 he took the Bachelor of Fine Arts in the subjects of drawing, painting and sculpture.
From 1972 to 1973 he visited during a sabbatical year Europe, in particular England, where he made contacts with numerous gallery with the help of the Dutch concept artist Jan Dibbet. In 1974 he gave up his teaching career at the NSCAD and was then resident in Boutiliers Point to Nova Scotia.
Between 1976 and 1980 Askevold was appointed to teaching positions at various universities. These include the University of California, Irvine, the California Institute of the Arts, the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In 1973 he had a teaching position at the California Institute of the Arts ( Cal Arts ), initially. , As the representative for John Baldessari, then from 1977 to 1978 as a lecturer In 1982 he moved back to New York in 1985 and taught Madison Media Institute in Minneapolis. There was created in collaboration with students his only music video Makes No Sense at All & Love is All Around with two songs of the alternative / punk band from Minneapolis / Saint Paul called Hüsker Dü.
Since 1990, he produced also by the influence of his new partner Norma Ready, a large number of new works.
His main means of expression in his early work phase the video. He combined in the Ausstellunssituationen drawing, photography and text to an installation.
Projects Classes
While teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 1968-1974 David Askevold developed the Projects Classes:
Concept artists who were based in New York, Askevold sent an invitation to have him written orders to come for his students. This invitation was accepted by: Lawrence Weiner, Robert Smithson, Lucy Lippard, Joseph Kosuth and Mel Bochner and Sol LeWitt.
Sol LeWitt presented the artist class a to-do list on which it, inter alia, said:
Videos ( select)
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo Exhibitions
- 2013 David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East Curated by David Diviney Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Canada
- 2011 David Askevold, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
- 1980 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands