Dave McDermott’s work surveys the tropes we have inherited throughout our collective history, and translates them into an expansive language of his own making. There are echoes of both Classicism and Dada in McDermott’s work, an assertion that there is ultimately no hierarchical difference between the sublime and the absurd.
McDermott earned his BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, CA (US) in 2004, and his MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York, NY (US) in 2007. Selected solo exhibitions include: The Varieties of Religious Experience, GRIMM, New York (US); West, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); The Long Goodbye, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); The Idiot, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY (US); Goethe’s Girlfriend, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY (US); The Power and Influence of Joseph Wiseman, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Pleasure Centre, Twig, Brussels (BE); Tot, Duve, Berlin (DE); A Rake’s Progress, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); The Modern Temper , Duve, Berlin (DE); Most Of What Follows Is True, Royale, San Francisco, CA (US).
Selected collections: Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL); Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, CA (US); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (CA); Zabludowicz Collection, New York, NY (US) and London (UK), among others.
Courtesy GRIMM, Amsterdam/London/New York.

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