Statement:
My art is always searching for the metaphor to describe what needs to be shown and discussed. The materials I use are tools to describe the metaphor. The metaphor changes depending on the message.
Solo/Two Person Shows
“This is Where We Draw The Line” Uptown Arts Center, Chicago, IL
“Naked in the Woods” Truck Show, Chicago, IL 2018
Betterday Santa Fe, NM 2017
“Color and Light” Flatiron Arts Building, Chicago, IL 2016
“Abstracts” Mercantile M, Andersonville Arts Weekend, Chicago, IL 2015
“Xacbe: Traces of the Light Beyond” Mink & Arce Gallery, Chicago, IL 2011
“Age and Decay” The Lucky Cat, New York, NY 2006
“Emily Rosen and David Downs” Dick Blick Gallery, New York, NY 2005
Select Group Shows
Biennial 30, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN 2019
“Material Objectivity” Popup Show, Chicago, IL 2018
“Suffragate Social” Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL 2016
“Conceptualize/Realize” Marwen Institute, Chicago, IL 2016
“Marwen Art Fair” Marwen Institute, Chicago, IL 2015
“[re]claimed” Semeiotic Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014
“Marwen Art Fair” Marwen Institute, Chicago, IL 2014
“Artifice & Ambiguity” Mink & Arce Gallery, Chicago, IL 2011
“New American Landscape” Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010
“The Evidence Against Us” Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010
“die Zeit of Drawing” Climate/Gallery, New York, NY 2009
“New Works” Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009
“Deck Deck Deck” APW Gallery, New York, NY 2009
“New Photographs” Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009
Published Works, Printed Exhibitions, Published Articles:
HIT 2018 Edition 2018
Barbed Magazine Spring 2017 issue 2017
Average Art Magazine issue 5 2017
International Dictionary of Artists (World Wide Books) 2011
die Zeit of Drawing (Climate/Gallery) 2010
(Self-published)
WERKS Spring 2018 (Sprocketbox Publishing) 2018
Polonium No3: Work (Sprocketbox Publishing) 2017
Polonium No2: NonObject (Sprocketbox Entertainment/Polonium Gallery) 2014
Polonium No1: Sentiment (Sprocketbox Entertainment/Polonium Gallery) 2014
Figure Face Identity (Sprocketbox Entertainment) 2012
Jared Weiss, The Slow Death of the Instant (Sprocketbox Entertainment) 2011
David Paul Downs, Recent Works (Sprocketbox Entertainment) 2010
New American Landscape (Sprocketbox Entertainment) 2010
Awards and Residencies:
2016 Spudnik Press Cooperative Resisency
2010 Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant
