BORN
Liverpool, England
EDUCATION
1992 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1988 Diploma and 5th Year Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1980 BS, Boston University, Boston, MA
1976 Colegio International de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2025 Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, Taos, NM
2024 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2019 Montello Foundation Residency, Montello, NV
2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2012 Santa Monica Artists Fellowship, City of Santa Monica grant
2008 Skylark Prize, Sias University Fellowship, Zhengzhou, China
2007 Artist in Residence, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Contemplate, Goat Gallery, Landers, CA (two person show with Judith Wold)
Non-linear Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Timothy
Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two person show with Kim Schoenstadt)
Natasha Sweeten and David McDonald, Satchel Projects, New York, NY
2022 Shelters from the Storm, 5. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2021 David McDonald and Carter Potter, PRJKT LA, Los Angeles, CA
Only This, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2020 Montello, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2019 Visions + Structures, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Common Knowledge, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Thought and Gesture, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Casting Amongst the Sands, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2014 Fly By These Nets, littlebigspace, Berkeley, CA
2013 Everything is Broken, Carter and Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Self Portraits, Carter and Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Tiny Histories, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Minor Monuments, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Un, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 The Depth of the Drop, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Patient as Pebbles, BF Annex, Boston, MA
2004 Practice, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Their, They’re, There, (with Steve DeGroodt), Cypress College, Cypress, CA
2000 In the Details, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
1999 Intimate Seeing, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Still, JennJoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 More or Less, (with David Kelley), Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
Borrowed Scenery, Remba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Source, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1997 David McDonald and Kevin Bean, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
1996 Pure Land, Charlotte Jackson, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Trace, Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 New Work, Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Plain, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Landscape Portraits of the Sublime in Ocotillos, California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, CA
1990 Dwellings, The Chapel Gallery, Newton, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Universal and the Particular, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Quiet Journey, King Studio, Venice, CA
2023 Who Live for a Day and Expire, 5. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Nothing is Hidden, 5. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Certain Matter, Harold J. Miossi Gallery, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
2021 Sum of the Parts, CMay Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Post Process/Post Materials, 501 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Barely Fair, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
Oneiric Landscapes, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
A Comical Primitiveness, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Defining Detritus, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 Cabinet, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 Practice, practice, practice: Abstract Spirituality in Contemporary LA
Painting, Sculpture, and Performance, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
Feel/Reveal, 337 Project Space, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 States of Being, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2014 Ternion, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
LA Wood Show, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Ipsum, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2013 heroes, Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
Folding Time Rhymes, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Interzone: Oystein Aasan, Mark Dutcher, David McDonald, C24 Gallery, New
York, NY
In Direct Light, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
Millenial Abstraction, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
Forms of Abstraction, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Theatrical Dynamics, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2012 Curatorial Exchange, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Urban Untitled, Capriccio Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
2011 Works of Paper, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Role Reversal, Jose Drudas-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los
Angeles, CA
Various Selections from the Permanent Collection, Nora Eccles Harrison
Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Goldmine: Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art
Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA (catalog)
Second Nature: Landscape Variations, Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA
2010 Works 186-221, Marine, Santa Monica, CA
2D/3D, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
ab.strac’tive meas.ures, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA curated by Carl Berg
Group Show, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Manifestation, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
One Week Only, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Structural Integrity, Harris Gallery, University of LaVerne, La Verne, CA
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Skylark Prize Exhibition, Skylark Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 NADA Art Fair, Jancar/Jones, Miami, FL
Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, Lindhurst Gallery, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA
Whole Parts, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences,
Santa Monica, CA
iCandy, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
2007 Themes and Variations: New Abstraction in Los Angeles, Torrance Art Museum,
Torrance, CA curated by Kristina Newhouse
Keeping It Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern
California Art, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Abstraction and Landscape, 98 Ten Fine Art, Irvine, CA curated by Carl Berg
One Night Only, 3875-1204 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
No Place, Jail, Los Angeles, CA curated by Christopher Pate
2006 Wall Works II, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
(keep feeling) fascination, New Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Luckman Gallery,
California State University, Los Angeles, CA curated by Julie Joyce
1973-2006: Good to Go, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
Acretion, Kellog Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA
Material Wise, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA curated by Carl Berg
Continuum: Crossroads Faculty Past and Present, Sam Francis Gallery,
Crossroads School for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA
Surface: Southern California Painters, L Street Gallery, San Diego, CA
Fresh, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, The Albright Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, BF Annex, Boston, MA
Group Exhibition, Exhibitions 2d, Marfa, TX
2004 White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Tinseltown II, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
Winter White, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Tinseltown, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Gravity, Robert Pardo Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Saturation, at the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2000 From Idea to Matter, The Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA curated by Edward Albee, (catalog)
Break Step, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Golden Horn, Raid Projects, Santa Ana, CA
The Spurgeon Experience, Raid Projects, Santa Ana, CA
1999 Escondido Phoenix, an Exploration of Art and Nature, Escondido Phoenix Retreat,
Malibu, CA curated by Tricia Watts
Sketch, Kellog Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
Up and Coming, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Peter Blum, New York, NY
Group Show, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Plastered, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Drawings, LASCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Open Book, Kellog Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA
Material Wise, Gallery Markant, Langlo, The Netherlands
Hold It, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Rim, Pyungtack City Museum, Korea
Group Show, Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 A Perhaps Hand, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Cups, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 FAAR Bazaar, Federal Projects Building, Los Angeles, CA
Mondo Lot, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Substance in Transition, Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
Science, 1529 Wellesly, Los Angeles, CA, traveled to Arizona State University,
University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
1991 Summer Program, Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Wood, Eve, Pick of the Week, Artillery Magazine, March
2015 Wood, Eve, States of Being, Pick of the week, Artillery Magazine, October
2014 Paglia, Michael, Two Distinct Takes on Conceptualism, Westword, Oct 6, 2014
2012 Plagens, Peter, The Edge of a New Frontier, Wall Street Journal, January 24
Myers, Holly, David McDonald at Citizen and Carter, Los Angeles Times,
January19
Zellen, Jody, David McDonald: Self Portraits”, Art LTD, March
Clothier, Peter, Weekend Gallery Rounds, The Buddha Diaries, January 26
Tuck, Geoff, David McDonald at Carter and Citizen, Notes on Looking, Feb 15
Wagley, Catherine, Not Quite Rejection, The Daily Serving, February 10
Zellen, Jody, Seen and Recommended, Artscene, January
2010 Miles, Christopher, David McDonald at Jancar Gallery, LA Weekly, April 7
2009 Albee, Edward & Frank, Peter, Skylark Prize, Catalog essays
Frank, Peter, David McDonald: Minor Monuments, THE Magazine, January
2008 Myers, Holly, Palettes blend, themes contrast, Los Angeles Times, December 5
Harvey, Doug, Mixed Media (highlights), LA Weekly, December 19
Continuing and Recommended, Artscene, May
2007 Frank, Peter, Themes and Variations, Artweek, November
2006 Duncan, Michael, Critics Journal, Art in America, November 6, 2006
Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, June 8
Joyce, Julie, [keep feeling] Fascination, Exhibition Brochure, Cal State
LA, Luckman Gallery, March 16-June 6
Rov, D.K., ‘Fresh Art’, as in Unripened, The Oregonian, April 10
Satorius, Katherine, [keep feeling] Fascination: Recent Abstract Painting
In Los Angeles, Artweek, June
Continuing and Recommended, Art Scene, May
2005 New American Painters, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA
Plummer, D’Lynne, Reach Out and Touch, South End News, July 28
2004 Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, December 29
Knight, Christopher, Art Reviews, Los Angeles Times, March 19
Continuing and Recommended, Art Scene, April
2002 Rakow, Mary, On Seeing, Catalog essay for Their, They’re There
2000 Albee, Edward, From Idea to Matter, Catalog essay
McLeod, Deborah, Running on Empty, Style Weekly, October 21
Proctor, Roy, Albee show relentlessly abstract, Richmond Times Dispatch,
December 3
Rand, Harry, Catalog essay for From Idea to Matter
Schoencotf, Rebecca, Art Review, OC Weekly, October 30
1999 On the Town, The New Yorker, October 4
Chattopadhyay, Collette, Malibu, Escondido Phoenix ’99, Sculpture, October
Scherr, Apollinaire, Over There, Express, February 19
1998 Frank, Peter, Art Picks of the Weekly, LA Weekly, July 17
Nesbett, Peter, Three artists reinvigorate realist, abstract tradition, South End
News, November 26
Ruggieri, John, More or Less, Bay Windows, November 12
1996 Bensley, Lis, McDonald’s content to let the next stage happen, Pasatiempo,
The New Mexican, May 10
Collins, Tom, Artstuff, Santa Fe Reporter, May 8
Winsted, Manya, Making of a Star, Santa Fean, May
1995 Frank, Peter, Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, April 7
Kandel, Susan, Literary Music, Los Angeles Times, April 27
1994 Nolan, Timothy, Labors of Love, Visions Art Quarterly, Spring
1993 Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, March 12
1990 Temin, Christine, An earnest “Glimpse” at a pair of personalities, Boston Globe,
December 14
Temin, Christine, Critics Tip, Boston Globe, December 13
Temin, Christine, Performance preview and interview, Boston Globe,
December 12
Temin, Christine, Shacks become poetry through sculptor’s global vision, Boston
Globe, October 31
Wellesley Chronicle, Performance Preview, December 8
The Tab, Collaborative concepts, December 12
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Edward Albee Foundation, New York, NY
Irving and Jackie Blum Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Lynda Benglis Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Simmons College Museum of Art, Boston, MA
West Collection, Oaks, PA
Liverpool, England
EDUCATION
1992 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1988 Diploma and 5th Year Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1980 BS, Boston University, Boston, MA
1976 Colegio International de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2025 Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, Taos, NM
2024 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2019 Montello Foundation Residency, Montello, NV
2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2012 Santa Monica Artists Fellowship, City of Santa Monica grant
2008 Skylark Prize, Sias University Fellowship, Zhengzhou, China
2007 Artist in Residence, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Contemplate, Goat Gallery, Landers, CA (two person show with Judith Wold)
Non-linear Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Timothy
Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two person show with Kim Schoenstadt)
Natasha Sweeten and David McDonald, Satchel Projects, New York, NY
2022 Shelters from the Storm, 5. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2021 David McDonald and Carter Potter, PRJKT LA, Los Angeles, CA
Only This, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2020 Montello, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2019 Visions + Structures, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Common Knowledge, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Thought and Gesture, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Casting Amongst the Sands, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2014 Fly By These Nets, littlebigspace, Berkeley, CA
2013 Everything is Broken, Carter and Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Self Portraits, Carter and Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Tiny Histories, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Minor Monuments, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Un, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 The Depth of the Drop, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Patient as Pebbles, BF Annex, Boston, MA
2004 Practice, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Their, They’re, There, (with Steve DeGroodt), Cypress College, Cypress, CA
2000 In the Details, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
1999 Intimate Seeing, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Still, JennJoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 More or Less, (with David Kelley), Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
Borrowed Scenery, Remba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Source, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1997 David McDonald and Kevin Bean, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
1996 Pure Land, Charlotte Jackson, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Trace, Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 New Work, Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Plain, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Landscape Portraits of the Sublime in Ocotillos, California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, CA
1990 Dwellings, The Chapel Gallery, Newton, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Universal and the Particular, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Quiet Journey, King Studio, Venice, CA
2023 Who Live for a Day and Expire, 5. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Nothing is Hidden, 5. Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Certain Matter, Harold J. Miossi Gallery, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
2021 Sum of the Parts, CMay Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Post Process/Post Materials, 501 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Barely Fair, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
Oneiric Landscapes, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
A Comical Primitiveness, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Defining Detritus, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 Cabinet, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 Practice, practice, practice: Abstract Spirituality in Contemporary LA
Painting, Sculpture, and Performance, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
Feel/Reveal, 337 Project Space, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 States of Being, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2014 Ternion, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
LA Wood Show, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Ipsum, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2013 heroes, Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
Folding Time Rhymes, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Interzone: Oystein Aasan, Mark Dutcher, David McDonald, C24 Gallery, New
York, NY
In Direct Light, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
Millenial Abstraction, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
Forms of Abstraction, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Theatrical Dynamics, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2012 Curatorial Exchange, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Urban Untitled, Capriccio Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
2011 Works of Paper, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Role Reversal, Jose Drudas-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los
Angeles, CA
Various Selections from the Permanent Collection, Nora Eccles Harrison
Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Goldmine: Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art
Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA (catalog)
Second Nature: Landscape Variations, Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA
2010 Works 186-221, Marine, Santa Monica, CA
2D/3D, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
ab.strac’tive meas.ures, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica CA curated by Carl Berg
Group Show, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Manifestation, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
One Week Only, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Structural Integrity, Harris Gallery, University of LaVerne, La Verne, CA
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Skylark Prize Exhibition, Skylark Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 NADA Art Fair, Jancar/Jones, Miami, FL
Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, Lindhurst Gallery, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA
Whole Parts, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences,
Santa Monica, CA
iCandy, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
2007 Themes and Variations: New Abstraction in Los Angeles, Torrance Art Museum,
Torrance, CA curated by Kristina Newhouse
Keeping It Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern
California Art, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Abstraction and Landscape, 98 Ten Fine Art, Irvine, CA curated by Carl Berg
One Night Only, 3875-1204 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
No Place, Jail, Los Angeles, CA curated by Christopher Pate
2006 Wall Works II, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
(keep feeling) fascination, New Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Luckman Gallery,
California State University, Los Angeles, CA curated by Julie Joyce
1973-2006: Good to Go, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
Acretion, Kellog Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA
Material Wise, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA curated by Carl Berg
Continuum: Crossroads Faculty Past and Present, Sam Francis Gallery,
Crossroads School for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA
Surface: Southern California Painters, L Street Gallery, San Diego, CA
Fresh, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, The Albright Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, BF Annex, Boston, MA
Group Exhibition, Exhibitions 2d, Marfa, TX
2004 White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Tinseltown II, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
Winter White, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Tinseltown, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Gravity, Robert Pardo Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Saturation, at the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2000 From Idea to Matter, The Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA curated by Edward Albee, (catalog)
Break Step, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Golden Horn, Raid Projects, Santa Ana, CA
The Spurgeon Experience, Raid Projects, Santa Ana, CA
1999 Escondido Phoenix, an Exploration of Art and Nature, Escondido Phoenix Retreat,
Malibu, CA curated by Tricia Watts
Sketch, Kellog Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
Up and Coming, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Peter Blum, New York, NY
Group Show, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Plastered, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Drawings, LASCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Open Book, Kellog Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA
Material Wise, Gallery Markant, Langlo, The Netherlands
Hold It, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Rim, Pyungtack City Museum, Korea
Group Show, Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 A Perhaps Hand, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Cups, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 FAAR Bazaar, Federal Projects Building, Los Angeles, CA
Mondo Lot, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Substance in Transition, Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
Science, 1529 Wellesly, Los Angeles, CA, traveled to Arizona State University,
University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
1991 Summer Program, Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Wood, Eve, Pick of the Week, Artillery Magazine, March
2015 Wood, Eve, States of Being, Pick of the week, Artillery Magazine, October
2014 Paglia, Michael, Two Distinct Takes on Conceptualism, Westword, Oct 6, 2014
2012 Plagens, Peter, The Edge of a New Frontier, Wall Street Journal, January 24
Myers, Holly, David McDonald at Citizen and Carter, Los Angeles Times,
January19
Zellen, Jody, David McDonald: Self Portraits”, Art LTD, March
Clothier, Peter, Weekend Gallery Rounds, The Buddha Diaries, January 26
Tuck, Geoff, David McDonald at Carter and Citizen, Notes on Looking, Feb 15
Wagley, Catherine, Not Quite Rejection, The Daily Serving, February 10
Zellen, Jody, Seen and Recommended, Artscene, January
2010 Miles, Christopher, David McDonald at Jancar Gallery, LA Weekly, April 7
2009 Albee, Edward & Frank, Peter, Skylark Prize, Catalog essays
Frank, Peter, David McDonald: Minor Monuments, THE Magazine, January
2008 Myers, Holly, Palettes blend, themes contrast, Los Angeles Times, December 5
Harvey, Doug, Mixed Media (highlights), LA Weekly, December 19
Continuing and Recommended, Artscene, May
2007 Frank, Peter, Themes and Variations, Artweek, November
2006 Duncan, Michael, Critics Journal, Art in America, November 6, 2006
Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, June 8
Joyce, Julie, [keep feeling] Fascination, Exhibition Brochure, Cal State
LA, Luckman Gallery, March 16-June 6
Rov, D.K., ‘Fresh Art’, as in Unripened, The Oregonian, April 10
Satorius, Katherine, [keep feeling] Fascination: Recent Abstract Painting
In Los Angeles, Artweek, June
Continuing and Recommended, Art Scene, May
2005 New American Painters, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA
Plummer, D’Lynne, Reach Out and Touch, South End News, July 28
2004 Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, December 29
Knight, Christopher, Art Reviews, Los Angeles Times, March 19
Continuing and Recommended, Art Scene, April
2002 Rakow, Mary, On Seeing, Catalog essay for Their, They’re There
2000 Albee, Edward, From Idea to Matter, Catalog essay
McLeod, Deborah, Running on Empty, Style Weekly, October 21
Proctor, Roy, Albee show relentlessly abstract, Richmond Times Dispatch,
December 3
Rand, Harry, Catalog essay for From Idea to Matter
Schoencotf, Rebecca, Art Review, OC Weekly, October 30
1999 On the Town, The New Yorker, October 4
Chattopadhyay, Collette, Malibu, Escondido Phoenix ’99, Sculpture, October
Scherr, Apollinaire, Over There, Express, February 19
1998 Frank, Peter, Art Picks of the Weekly, LA Weekly, July 17
Nesbett, Peter, Three artists reinvigorate realist, abstract tradition, South End
News, November 26
Ruggieri, John, More or Less, Bay Windows, November 12
1996 Bensley, Lis, McDonald’s content to let the next stage happen, Pasatiempo,
The New Mexican, May 10
Collins, Tom, Artstuff, Santa Fe Reporter, May 8
Winsted, Manya, Making of a Star, Santa Fean, May
1995 Frank, Peter, Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, April 7
Kandel, Susan, Literary Music, Los Angeles Times, April 27
1994 Nolan, Timothy, Labors of Love, Visions Art Quarterly, Spring
1993 Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, March 12
1990 Temin, Christine, An earnest “Glimpse” at a pair of personalities, Boston Globe,
December 14
Temin, Christine, Critics Tip, Boston Globe, December 13
Temin, Christine, Performance preview and interview, Boston Globe,
December 12
Temin, Christine, Shacks become poetry through sculptor’s global vision, Boston
Globe, October 31
Wellesley Chronicle, Performance Preview, December 8
The Tab, Collaborative concepts, December 12
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Edward Albee Foundation, New York, NY
Irving and Jackie Blum Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Lynda Benglis Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Simmons College Museum of Art, Boston, MA
West Collection, Oaks, PA