David M Ambrose

One Person Exhibitions
2008	Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania *The Braille Landscape.*
2007	Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia *Tropical Gothic*
2005	Project Room 88, New York, New York *Braided Incidents: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper by David Ambrose*
	Domo Gallery, Summit, New Jersey *Public and Private Work*
2003	Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, New Jersey *Patterns of Resistance*
2002	Kaiserslautern Germany *The Echo of Ornament*
2001	Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey The Gallery at St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, Delaware *The Bound Brook Cycle: Recent Work by David Ambrose*
1998	Aljira, A Center For Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey *Powder and Lace*
	Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey *The Saturated Soul*
1997	Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey *Conduct, Diligence, and Drawing: Recent Works by David Ambrose*
1994	Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, Pennsylvania *Flesh and Blood: Recent Paintings by David Ambrose and Dik F. Liu*
1993	Brodsky Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey *Recent Work by David Ambrose*

Group Exhibitions
2009	Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, Degrees of Density Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, New York *Drawing*
2008	Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts *Exquisitude*
	Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia *This Just In*
	Mckenzie Fine Art, New York, New York *Horror Vacui*
	The Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey *Painting Process*
	Visual Arts Center Of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey *Midnight Full of Stars.* Curated by Sara Lynn Henry
	Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, New York *It’s Gouache and Gouache Only.*Curated by Geoffrey Young
2007	Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Luxe, Calme et Volupte. Curated by Joanne Mattera
2005	Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, New Jersey *Canvassing the Coast: Contemporary Paintings Inspired by the New Jersey Shore*
	The Noyes Museum Of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey *Encore: More from the Permanent Collection*
2004	Victory Hall, Jersey City, New Jersey *Metaphors, Muses & Mysteries*
2003	New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey \| The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey \| The Noyes Museum Of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints
	Project Room 88, New York, New York *The Shoe Show*
2002	Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, New Jersey *Small Works*
2000	Hunterdon Museum Of Art, Clinton, New Jersey *New Jersey State Fellowship Exhibition*
1999	Gail Gates Et Al, Brooklyn, New York *Size Matters*
1997	Gallery Korea, New York, New York *Recurrence and the Work of Art*
	Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey *Recent Works from the Innovative Center for Print & Paper*
1996	The Noyes Museum Of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey *Saturnine/Mercurial: The Many Moods of Watercolor*
1996	The Noyes Musem Of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey *94-95 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition*
1995	313 Gallery, New York, New York *Mushy, Soft and Sensitive with Bite*
	Seton Hall University, Newark, New Jersey *The Elegance of Obliquity*
1994	Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey *Identity: An American Dream*
	Aljira, A Center For Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey *The Definite Decade*
	City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey *Meditations*
	Chamber, New York, New York *Chamber 2*
	Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, Maryland *Natural Histories*
1993	The Noyes Museum Of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey *Master Prints from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking*
	City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey *Major Medical (David Ambrose, Curator)*
	University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, *Pennsylvania Alumni Exhibition*
1992	The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey *New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts*
	Artworks, Trenton, New Jersey *The Figure as Muse*
1991	City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey *Undead Artists*
	Aljira, A Center For Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey *Choices*

Grants And Awards
2002	Atlantic Academy, Kaiserslautern, Germany Artist-in-Residence
2000-2001	Union County Cultural & Heritage Commission Heart Grant
	New Jersey State Council on the Arts Painting Fellowship
1995-1996	Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
1993-1994	New Jersey State Council on the Arts Distinguished Artist Fellowship
1993-1995	Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey Artist’s Advisory Board

Collections
The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ	New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ	Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Nabisco Brands	Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ	Atlantic Academy, Kaiserslautern, Germany
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ	The Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting

Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Arts

Universita Italiana per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy

Bibliography

Symmes, Marilyn, Degrees of Density, Kentler International Drawing Space, 2009

Baker, R.C., “Horror Vacui.” Best in Show-Recommendations, The Village Voice, July 9-
15, 2008.

Henry, Sara Lynn, “Midnight Full of Stars.” Catalog Essay, 2008

Bischoff, Dan, “ Stars in Their Eyes.” The Sunday Star Ledger, April 20th, 2008

Wolfe, Debra , “Spirit of Baudelaire, Matisse flows.” The Atlanta Constitution Journal, July 8, 2007

Mattera, Joanne, “Luxe, Calme et Volupte,” Catalog Essay, June 2007

Purcell, Janet, “The sand, the sea … and a lot more,” The Times of Trenton, June 3, 2005.

Fillibeck, Andreas, “Small Strength Packets with Natural Symbols,” Die Rheinpfalz, November 4, 2002.

Fillibeck, Andreas, “Little Power-Packs That Evoke Nature,” Die Rheinpfalz, October 30, 2002.

Haen, Martin, “The Echo of Ornament, Essay, Stiftskirche, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2002.

Moore, Jane, “Art Inspired in Wake of the Flood,” The Star Ledger, February 8, 2001.

Berenguer, Desiree, News 12 New Jersey, Television Interview, February 1, 2001.

Terenzi, Mark, “Cycles of Life Endure,” The Sunday Courier News, January 21, 2001.

Zimmer, William, “Contemplating Categories Among Genres,” The New York Times, January 7, 2001.

Wechsler, Jeffrey, “The Bound Brook Cycle,” Essay, The Tomasulo Gallery, 2001.

Schwabsky, Barry, “Memory, Atmosphere, and How They Connect,” The New York Times, November 22, 1998.

Bischoff, Dan, “Powder and Lace,” The Sunday Star Ledger, November 22, 1998.

Wei, Lilly, “Powder and Lace,” Essay, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, 1998.

Zimmer, William, “Not Much in Common, Except Commitment to a Vision,” The New York Times, May 24, 1998

Chong, Theresa and Harris, Mark, “Recurrence and the Work of Art,” Catalogue Essays, Gallery Korea, 1997.

Haller, Emanuel, “A Portrait of Two Artists,” The Courier News, November 4, 1993.

Raynor, Vivien, “Folk Art, Decoys, and Much More,” The New York Times, September 26, 1993.

Raynor, Vivien, “Body Parts Provide Artists with Theme,” The New York Times, February 14, 1993.

Raynor, Vivien, “Undead Artists, Gallery’s Choice of Works by New Members, The New York Times, September, 1, 1991.

Bass, Ruth, “From the Other Side,” ArtNews, April, 1986.