bio - artist statement | David Konigsberg

At a time when figurative art has enjoyed something of a revival, it is refreshing to find a reason
why it should—that is, an approach that doesn’t just revel in the form, but looks at the figure
anew, and gives a fresh application. What has attracted me to the work of David Konigsberg is
his fairly unique ability to marry traditions of painting (and a classicist’s eye) and a
contemporary sensibility. These are not, in other words, your father’s figurative paintings.
Whether large or small, Konigsberg’s figures are clearly in a state of transition, filled with
character and individual intent, yet tied to a larger choreography over which they have little
control or awareness. The spiritual implications of this are both ambiguous and profound.
Tension lurks beneath the placid, and humor betrays the menace. In paintings that are frankly a
pleasure to look at, he delivers us to a mixed emotional state—one that feels altogether natural in our current time and place.



SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

~ Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York
Overland (2005)
Jump (2004)
At Rest/In Motion (2002)
~ Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale NY
Recent Work (2004)
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~ Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle
Recent Work (2006)
Recent Work (2004)
Recent Work (2003)
The Crossing (2002)

SELECTED TWO - PERSON AND GROUP SHOWS:

~ The Painting Center, NYC, Grand Allusions (2006)
~ Hofstra Museum, Hempstead NY, Where the Island Begins, curator and participant (Spring 2004)
~ Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica CA, FreshstART (2004,2005)
~ Weber Fine Art, Chatham NY
Floating Dreams and Flying Machines (2005)
Recent Work, with Shawn Dulaney (2004)
~ Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY
New Painting (2006)
Almost Real (2005)
Poetry in Motion (2003)
Narratives (2003)
~ Artist’s Choice, Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale NY (2002)
~ Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn
100 Works Benefit Show, (2003, 2004, 2005,2006)
4Sight, Realism to Abstraction (2002)
9-11/Artists Respond (2001)
Small Works, (2001)
~ David Findlay Jr. Contemporary, New York
Contemporary Realism (2000)
Private Visions (1999)
~ Mixed Monotypes (curator), Brooklyn Brewery ArtSpace, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (2000)
~ Brooklyn on the Block (curator), Cindy Kelly/Mixed Media, Block Island RI (2001)
~ Radix Gallery, New York (1996-1997)
~ Bixler Gallery, New York (1994-1995)
~ Contemporary Figurative Work, national exhibition, Hammond Gallery, Lancaster OH (1992)
~ Art Imitates Baseball, juried by Ivan Karp, Mid Hudson Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY (1992)
~ Works on Paper, juried by Wolf Kahn, Windham Gallery, Brattleboro VT, (1991)
~ Small Works, juried by Linda Konheim-Kramer, Amos Eno Gallery, New York (1990)
~ Works on Paper, juried by Dominique Nahas, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo (1990)
~ Delaware Valley Art Center (1989, 1990)

G R A N T S:

~ Artist in Residence, MacDowell Colony (1998)

PUBLICATIONS:

~ New York Times review, Where the Island Begins, by Helen A. Harrison (2004)
~ New York Times review, Artist’s Choice, by D. Dominick Lombardi, Weber Fine Art (2002)
~ New American Paintings (1999)
~ Brooklyn Journal review, 4Sight, by Carl Blumenthal (2003)
~ American Artist (1995)
G A L L E R Y A F F I L I A T I O N S
~ Allen Sheppard NYC
~ Ballard Fetherston, Seattle
~ Kenise Barnes, Larchmont NY